SALAT TIMES , RAKAT AND SOME DISCUSSION

SALAT TIMES:

Fajr salat:  the first appearance of light in the sky before sunrise begin.

Zuhr salat:  when the sun has passed the median point in the sky.

Asr salat:  between noon and sunset(halfway).

Magrib salat: after the sunset.

Isha salat:  Dark night (approximately an hour and a half after sunset up to Fajr prayer).

 RAKATS:

Obligatory and Optional Prayers

	Before Sunnah	Fard	After     Sunnah	Nafil	Witr
Fajr	2(Sunnat Mokadda)	2
Zuhr	4(Sunnat Mokadda)	4	2(Sunnat Mokadda)	2(optional)
Asr	4(optional)	4
Maghrib		3	2(Sunnat Mokadda)	2(optional)
Isha	4(optional)	4	2(Sunnat Mokadda)	2(optional)	1/3(wazib)

DISCUSSION:

First of all must be with wudu for all salat . Do you know how to perform wudu? click here to know about wudu.

Concentrate on the meaning of the prayers.If you want to concentrate on your salat then you need to know the meaning of recitation every sura like sura-fatiha (click here to know sura fatiha). Sura fatiha is obligatory for every each rakats. Then you can read any other sura/verse for the holy Quran.Pronounce so that you alone can hear yourself.

Hold a position until you are at rest in it.Pause long enough to say "Subhanallah".

Prescribed prayers should be made in Arabic; personal prayers may be made in one’s own language in any posture during Salaat, especially prostration.If prayer is missed unavoidably, it may be said after its time has passed.

The Fajr 2 rakat sunnah is the most powerful salat than any other sunnah prayers.

Many scholars have different opinion about witr prayer.But our prophet (sa) pray 1 rakat witr most of the time.So you can pray 1 rakat 3 rakat 5 rakat ......but it is wajib pray you must pray witr salat after the isha salat.

The messenger of ALLAH said that:

 “On the Day of Judgment, a slave will be questioned about his prayers first. If his prayers are good, his other deeds will be good, too. If his prayers are bad, his other deeds will be bad, too.”

Ibn Umar (r.a.) narrates that the Prophet (pbuh) said:

“The place of prayer (salah) in religion is like the place of the head in the body.”

Abu’d-Darda (r.a) said that: 

“My friend Muhammad (pbuh) gave me the following advice. Even if you are chopped up and burnt, do not associate partners with Allah and do not miss your fard prayers deliberately. Allah will move His protection away from a person who misses his fard prayers deliberately.”