- Islamic prayer - namaz Requirements for the person praying
- Requirements for prayer
- Basics of Islamic Prayer Prayers from the Koran
The concept of Islamic prayer in Islam means both namaz, that is, ritual prayer, and voluntary prayer (supplication), that is, dua. Daily Islamic prayers are the main way to help a Muslim overcome his difficulties and trials.
Islamic prayer - namaz
Namaz is one of the pillars of Islam, through which a person communicates between himself and Allah Almighty. As the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ said, prayer is truly the best of all human deeds. Namaz is a ritual sequence of certain body movements and reading short or long prayer formulas mentioning the name of the Lord, reading verses (verses) from the Holy Book of Allah, the Koran. Namaz is not just saying a prayer, but a whole ritual or set of actions, which includes bows of the worshiper, turns of the head and a special arrangement of his hands. In Muslim families, children are taught to perform namaz correctly from birth, and if a person converted to Islam at a fairly mature age, then he should also learn to perform namaz correctly.
During prayer, a Muslim internally mentally concentrates on what is said in the prayer, as well as on his connection with Allah, because our Lord Allah watches over Muslims during prayer. Islamic prayers in namaz should be performed correctly. They must be read in Arabic, the language in which the Revelation was revealed. When a Muslim performs namaz, he strengthens his own faith in the Lord, copes with earthly temptations, and cleanses his soul from the sins that he has already committed and protects him from those sins that he may still commit in the future.
Prayer should be read five times a day, and this helps a Muslim strengthen his faith in Allah, cleanse himself of sins committed earlier, protect himself from those sins that a person may commit in the future, and live with the name of the Lord in his heart. As stated in the hadith, on the Day of Judgment, Allah will ask a person first of all whether he performed his prayers on time. Five daily prayers must be performed at a certain time interval: Fajr (morning prayer) is read at dawn, Dhuhr is read in the middle of the day, Asr is read in the evening, then Maghrib is read at sunset and Isha at dusk. Based on this routine, the daily routine of the believer, the rhythm of Muslim life, is formed.
Prayers are divided into wajib and fard, that is, obligatory categories of prayers, as well as sunnat and nafilah, which are desirable. Muslim prayer is also divided into several categories of obligatory collective prayers - Eid prayer, Janaza prayer and Juma prayer. It is preferable to perform Islamic prayers in a mosque - this is the most powerful prayer, but if this is not possible, then you can pray anywhere, even in the office or at the university.
Islamic prayer is preceded by the adhan or call to prayer. As the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ said, one should read the adhan if it is time for prayer, and by this he wanted to show that the adhan is a manifestation of piety.
Requirements for a person praying
Before performing namaz, men and women must cleanse the place of namaz, their clothes, body and soul. A Muslim must perform ablution before prayer, if he does not have a ritual ablution, partial or complete, it depends on the degree of defilement he is in. The place in which an Islamic believer performs prayer must also be clean. Islamic prayers are performed in an undefiled place that is free from najasa or impurity. While performing namaz, a Muslim should wear only clean clothes that are not soiled with impurities, which include human excrement, as well as feces, their particles and drops, and animals. Sewage also includes the hair of animals, dogs or pigs.
There is an important requirement for Muslim clothing: it must cover the places that the Sharia requires to cover, that is, the aura. For women, the aura is their entire body; only the face, hands and feet can be left open. A man’s aurat, that is, what cannot be shown, is his body from the navel to the knees.
While performing Islamic prayers, you should stand in the direction of the Kaaba, the Muslim shrine.
An important condition for performing Islamic prayer is the intention of the believer to pray - the intention of the Muslim believer must be sincere, he must perform prayer while in a sober mind, without being exposed to alcohol, psychotropic drugs, which are strictly prohibited in Islam.
Islam prescribes that women pray separately from men, but if circumstances do not allow them to pray separately from each other, then a woman should not pray out loud, since a man may be distracted by a woman’s voice, which will disrupt his mental unity with Allah.
Requirements for prayer
Islamic prayers have many variations, but certain prayers are designed for certain occasions and situations. All types and types of prayers are united by a list of specific actions or rules that should be followed while a Muslim performs namaz.
The first rule is that during prayer you should get rid of extraneous thoughts and conversations and focus on communicating with God.
The second rule is that you cannot eat or drink any drinks while saying Islamic prayers, and the same rule applies to chewing gum.
Another important rule is that it is forbidden to blow on anything while performing namaz.
Islamic prayers should be read without errors; mistakes during reading should never be made. In the same way, you should not stretch while speaking and yawn.
Another important rule: you cannot perform namaz in a house that does not belong to you and you do not live in it until you receive the owner’s permission to do so.
It is not permitted to say prayer during sunrise. If there are empty seats in the first row of worshipers, then you cannot stand in the second row.
In the prayer itself, there are certain prayers that must be read in order for the prayer to be valid, for example: Surah Fatiha, attahiyat.
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Islamic prayer - dua
Islamic prayers truly lie at the very core of the life of every Muslim believer. In addition to prayer, there are duas in Islam, which are also a means of communication between a person and the Lord. There are duas for all occasions in Islam; most of the prayers are taken from the Sunnah and Koran.
The Muslim prayer dua or supplication is a prayer to Allah that is arbitrary or specific (taken from the prayers of the Prophet ﷺ), it does not require a specific time or a state of ritual purity. Believers read dua in a variety of situations in life, after performing ritual prayer, after performing dhikr. By reading dua, we worship Allah, because dua is one of the ways of worshiping the Lord. As the Almighty said in the Holy Book, “ Contact Me with dua - and I will answer you ” (Sura Ghafir (Forgiving), verse 60). In the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ it has been repeatedly said about when one should turn to Allah and in what cases in order to gain His mercy, blessing and protection.
The Lord knows everything hidden and obvious about his servant, so there is no requirement to pronounce the dua out loud: even if the dua was pronounced silently, it will still be heard by Allah Almighty. When pronouncing a dua, a Muslim must pronounce it with confidence that our Great Creator Allah can solve any problem and is capable of even changing this world.
There is a dua for those who wish to repent of their sins. This prayer should be read with a feeling of sincere repentance. The dua, which begins “Allaahumma anta rabbi...” translated means a Muslim’s promise to justify the responsibility that the Lord, who created him, placed on him, and promises to keep his words as much as his strength and capabilities allow. In this dua, a Muslim asks the Lord to forgive him, promising not to commit forbidden actions and to do what is obligatory in Islam.
Basics of Islamic Prayer
Islamic prayers can be divided into three categories based on their source:
- Prayers taken from the texts of the Holy Book of the Koran;
- Prayers that came from the hadiths of the Prophet ﷺ, that is, those duas that the Prophet ﷺ pronounced in certain life situations;
- Prayers pronounced in any form.
Prayers from the Koran
The life of a Muslim is based on Islam, and the basis of Islam is the Holy Book of the Koran, which contains the Revelations of Allah, which the Lord himself sent to the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. The Koran is a collection of recommendations and covenants of Allah, which each Muslim believer must observe and adhere to, and when he endures all the tests sent to him in earthly life, he will ascend to the Light and reunite in Paradise with his Great Creator Allah.
The text that is contained in the dua that came from the verses and the meaning that it carries cannot be changed, since both the text and the meaning were originally determined by Allah, and they must remain unchanged. The Koran was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, and everything that is said there is the direct speech of Allah; prayer formulas and texts of verses of the Koran cannot be changed.
Prayers of the Prophet ﷺ
Islamic prayers of the Prophet ﷺ are a whole collection of prayers for different occasions presented from the life of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ; such Islamic prayers are contained in books on hadith (words and deeds of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ). A Muslim should pronounce such prayers in the form in which they have come down to this day from the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ - this will be the best in its content and quality of appeal to God.
What Islamic prayers exist for every day? There are a lot of such prayers, for example: dua before eating and drinking, while eating, if you forgot to say “Bismillah” before eating, dua after eating, dua for the one who treated you to food, dua before leaving the house, before entering home, entering or leaving the toilet, before going to bed and after waking up from sleep, during rain, after adhan, after remembering the name of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, during joy, anxiety or fear, when dressing, when putting on new clothes, when taking off clothes , during instigations, during intimacy, from paying off a debt, when setting off on a road and during a journey, when entering a vehicle, when entering a market, when entering and leaving a mosque, before and after ablution, during difficulties and repentance for a crime committed sin, dua during Hajj, when sneezing and when fasting, during anger, when getting married and at a meeting...
For example, before eating, they say a prayer beginning with the words “Allaahumma baariq lanaa,” which means an appeal to Allah Almighty with a request to make the food that a Muslim is going to eat blessed for people and to feed him food that will be better than this.
There are duas that Muslim believers read when leaving home. One of the variants of such a prayer begins with the words “Bismil-layakh, tawakkyaltu 'alal-laakh...” and translated means “In the name of Allah Almighty! I trust only in Him. True power and strength belong only to Him.” Another version of such a prayer begins with the words “Allahumma innii 'auuzu bikya an adil la” and means in translation that a Muslim turns to Allah Almighty in order not to stray from the right path, so that he is not led astray from this path, in order to avoid mistakes made independently and at someone’s instigation, so that neither the person himself acts unfairly, nor injustice is allowed to happen to him, so as not to tolerate ignorance towards oneself and not to be ignorant.
When entering a house, Muslims read a prayer that begins with the words “Bismil-lyahi valyajna...” and is translated as “In the name of the Almighty we entered and in His name we left. And only in our Lord do we trust.”
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There is an Islamic prayer for those who are about to get married or are getting married. To perform it, one must first perform a ritual ablution, and then perform two rak'ahs of additional prayer. Next, a dua is pronounced, which begins with the words “Allaahumma innakya takdir...”. Translated, this dua means a Muslim’s request to Allah Almighty for help in marrying a chosen person, if Allah believes that this person, man or woman, is the best candidate for preserving the religiosity of the person praying.
After the wedding, when the moment of first intimacy occurs between husband and wife, it is necessary to read the dua beginning with the words “Bismil-layah. Allahumma jannibna...", which translated means "I begin with the name of the Lord. O Almighty, remove us from Satan and remove Satan from what You will give us!”
Believers often resort to prayer, which will become consolation and support when they need to cope with problems, misfortunes and troubles. In such cases, the believer should read the dua “Innaa lil-lyahi wa innaa ilyaihi raaji'uun, allaahumma...”, which translated means a request to the Almighty to replace his troubles and problems with something easier and bless him for a life without sorrows and troubles and settle him peace and tranquility in his soul.
There is a prayer that will be a consolation if you need to cope with needs, problems and difficulties. This Islamic prayer begins as “Alhamdu lilla yahi rabbil-'aalamiin...”, before which the Islamic believer should also perform a ritual ablution, and then perform two rak'ahs. Translated, this dua means that the believer asks for the mercy of Allah Almighty to protect him from sins and save him from mistakes.
If an Islamic believer is sad or is overcome by causeless anxiety, then he should read a special dua to the Lord, which begins as “Allaahumma inniyi...”. This dua contains a request from a Muslim to Allah to make “the Quran the spring of my heart, the light of my soul and the reason for the disappearance of my sadness, the end of my anxiety.” There is another dua option for such a case. This dua begins with “Allaahumma inni a'uuzu...” and translated means: “O Almighty, I am moving away with Your help from my anxiety and sadness, from my weakness and laziness, from stinginess and cowardice, from the burden of my debt and human oppression "
If a Muslim is in danger, he turns to Allah Almighty with the prayer “Allaahumma innaa naj'alukya...”, which means, “O Allah, we hand over their throats and tongues to You for judgment. And we resort to You, moving away from their evil,” asking Allah to bless and protect the Muslim so that he lives in peace and tranquility.
Islamic prayers are designed for a variety of moments and situations. The more often a believer remembers the name of Allah Almighty and turns to the Lord with a prayer, the greater the likelihood of earning his favor and contentment.
There is a dua to the Lord that should be made when waking up from sleep. You should say “Al-hamdu li-L la hi allazi ahya-na...”, which translated means that the person praying praises Allah Almighty.
There is also a prayer to Allah, which is recommended to be read while getting dressed - “Al-hamdu li-Lla hi allazi kasa-ni haza-s-sauba...”, it praises Allah, who gave the Muslim this clothing.
If an Islamic believer puts on new clothes, then he should read the prayer “Allahumma la-kyal-hamdu!”, which translated means “O Allah, praise be to You! You dressed me in this (clothing), and I ask You for its good and the good of what it was made for, and I resort to You from its evil and the evil of what it was made for.”
There is also a dua for the case when a believer takes off his clothes: he should read “Bismillahi” with the name of the Lord.
When entering and leaving the toilet, the believer also makes dua prayers: when entering, he resorts to the help of Allah in protecting himself from bad deeds and depravity, and when leaving, the Muslim asks Allah to forgive him.
Before performing namaz, the believer must perform ablution or wudhu, and when he finishes ablution, he should also make a dua to Allah, indicating that “there is no god but Allah, and He has no partner, and Muhammad is His servant and His Messenger."
How to make dua
When a Muslim believer reads dua, he raises his hands to shoulder level or higher and turns them with his palms towards his face. It is advisable to be in a state of ritual purity and turn towards the Kaaba. When making dua, a Muslim also needs to adhere to the Islamic rules of prayer so that his prayer is accepted and completed. First of all, a Muslim must refuse to commit sins and forbidden acts, and earn his living only by permitted (halal) methods. When making the prayer itself, one should follow the Islamic tradition of offering prayer in the same way as the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ did, starting the Islamic prayer with praising Allah, asking Him for forgiveness and sincere repentance for the sin committed, offering salawat to the Prophet Muhammad, and then turning directly to the essence of his request , describing it expressively and succinctly, sincerely, addressing Allah by His Beautiful Names.
Prayers recited by the Prophet ﷺ for healing from all diseases
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It is reported from Abdul Aziz that one day, when he, together with Thabit (one of the outstanding followers of the companions of Thabit al-Bunani (may Allah be pleased with him)) went to see Anas ibn Malik (may Allah be pleased with him), Thabit said to him: “ O Abu Hamza, I am sick ." Then Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said to him:
“ Should I read the conspiracy of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) over you? “He said: “ Of course !” - and then Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) read:
اللَّهُمَّ رَبَّ النَّاسِ ، مُذْهِبَ البَأسِ ، اشْفِ أنْتَ الشَّاف ِي ، لاَ شَافِيَ إِلاَّ أنْتَ ، شِفَاءً لاَ يُغَادِرُ سَقماً
«Allahumma, Rabba-n-nasi, muzhiba-l-ba`si, ishfi Anta-sh-Shafi, la shafi illa Anta shifaan la yugadiru sakaman».
Remembrance of Allah
Morning Islamic prayers are dedicated to turning to Allah Almighty for help and forgiveness, so that he can show the believer the straight path to exalt and glorify Allah.
What is the remembrance of Allah and the benefits of it, when and how to remember Allah, read in this article.
In addition to prayers and duas, there are Islamic prayers said every day at a certain moment in the life of a Muslim - unique prayer formulas or phrases, for example, before eating one should say “Bismillah”, and even if a Muslim forgot to say this before eating, he must say, as soon as he remembers. After prayers, Muslim believers praise, glorify and exalt Allah Almighty with the words “Alhamdulillah” (praise be to Allah), “SubhanAllah” (glorified is Allah), “Allahu Akbar” (Great is Allah).
The Koran is the holy book of the Muslim people
The Koran is the main book in the Muslim religion; it is the basis of the Muslim faith. The name of the holy book comes from the Arabic word for “reading aloud,” and it can also be translated as “edification.” Muslims are very sensitive to the Koran and believe that the holy book is the direct speech of Allah, and it has existed forever. According to Islamic law, the Koran can only be taken into clean hands.
Believers believe that the Koran was written down by the disciples of Muhammad from the words of the prophet himself. And the transmission of the Koran to believers was carried out through the angel Gabriel. Muhammad's first revelation came when he was 40 years old. After this, over the course of 23 years, he received other revelations at different times and in different places. The latter was received by him in the year of his death. All suras were recorded by the prophet’s companions, but were first collected together after the death of Muhammad - during the reign of the first caliph Abu Bakr.
For some time, Muslims have used individual suras to pray to Allah. Only after Osman became the third caliph did he order the individual records to be systematized into a single book (644–656). Collected together, all the suras formed the canonical text of the holy book, which has survived unchanged to this day. Systematization was carried out primarily according to the records of Muhammad's companion, Zayd. According to legend, it was in this order that the prophet bequeathed the suras for use.
During the day, every Muslim must pray five times:
- Morning prayer is performed from dawn to sunrise;
- The midday prayer is performed during the period when the sun is at its zenith until the length of the shadows reaches their height;
- The pre-evening prayer is read from the moment when the length of the shadows reaches their height until sunset;
- Sunset prayer is performed during the period from sunset to the moment when the evening dawn goes out;
- Twilight prayers are read between evening and morning dawn.
