---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Adil ibn Manzoor Khan <> Date: Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 9:56 PM * *
** ** *In the name of Allah, the Most-Merciful, the All-Compassionate* * * ** *"May the Peace and Blessings of Allah be Upon You"* ** * * ** ** *Praise be to Allaah, we seek His help and His forgiveness. We seek refuge with Allaah from the evil of our own souls and from our bad deeds. Whomsoever Allaah guides will never be led astray, and whomsoever Allaah leaves astray, no one can guide. I bear witness that there is no god but Allaah, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger.* *** * * * *Bismillah Walhamdulillah Was Salaatu Was Salaam 'ala Rasulillah* *As-Salaam Alaikum Wa-Rahmatullahi Wa-Barakatuhu** * ** ** ** *If he missed something at the beginning of Taraweeh, * *how can he make it up?* *If I enter the mosque late for Isha prayer and I missed the Isha prayer in congregation and I pray it on my own, and I am late in joining the Taraweehprayers because of doing Isha, and I miss two rakahs of Taraweeh, how should I do these two rakahs? * *Alone or what?. * *Praise be to Allaah. * Firstly: If you miss Isha and you arrive when the imam is praying Taraweeh, it is better for you to join him with the intention of praying Isha. When he says the salaam, you should complete your prayer and not pray alone or with another jamaaah (congregation), so that there will not be two jamaaahs at the same time, which may lead to distraction due to the intermingling of voices. Secondly: As for what you have missed of Taraweeh, if you wish you may do it, so you may pray two rakahs when the imam prays Witr, then pray what you missed, then pray Witr. What is meant by praying two rakahs when the imam prays Witr is that you do not say salaam with him when he ends his Witr, rather you should stand up and pray another rakah, then say the salaam. Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen (may Allaah have mercy on him) was asked: If I join the people when they are praying Taraweeh and I have missed part of it, should I make up what I have missed after Witr or what should I do? He replied: Do not make up what you have missed after Witr, rather if you want to make up what you have missed, then pray two rakahs when the imam prays Witr, then offer the prayers you missed, then pray Witr. Here there is an issue to which attention should be drawn: If you arrive when the imam is praying Taraweeh and you did not pray Isha yet, what should you do? Should you pray Isha on your own or join the imam in Taraweeh with the intention of praying Isha ? The answer is that you should join the imam in Taraweeh with the intention of praying Isha. When the imam says salaam from Taraweeh, then stand up and make up the rest of Isha. Imam Ahmad (may Allaah have mercy on him) mentioned the exact same issue, and this was also the view favoured by Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah, and this is the correct view, because the correct view is that it is permissible to offer an obligatory prayer in congregation behind an imam who is offering a naafil prayer, based on the evidence of the hadeeth of Muaadh ibn Jabal (may Allaah be pleased with him) who said that he used to pray Isha with the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), then he would go back to his people and lead them in offering that prayer – it was naafil for him and obligatory for them. End quote from al-Liqa’ al-Shahri. It is better for you to make it up in congregation if you can, but if that is not possible then there is nothing wrong with you making it up on your own. And Allaah knows best. *http://islam-qa.com/en/ref/93747/* * * ** * Permission is granted to circulate among private individuals and groups, to post on Internet sites and to publish in full text and subject title in not-for-profit publications. * ** http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LoveIslam_LiveIslam/ *What Seperates our Group from the rest ?* *Only Authentic Information about Islam is passed backed by Quran or Hadith's.*
