Sunnah and voluntary prayers

SUNNAH AND VOLUNTARY PRAYERS

Regular Sunnah prayers which are performed before or after the obligatory five daily prayers (Their total number is seventeen prayer units):

*The two “Fajr” prayer units before morning prayer.

*Four prayer units before noon prayer and two units after it.

*Four units before afternoon prayer.                            
*Two units after sunset prayer.

*Three units after night prayer (one of them is performed as an odd prayer ‘Witr’).

- And there are:

a) Permanent voluntary prayers:

*Optional night prayer: It is performed in pairs (two prayer units every time) and then the last one is odd prayer (one prayer unit).                                              
*Mosque greeting prayer.

*Ablution renewing prayer.   

*Forenoon prayer (It ranges between two prayer units and eight units).

b) Voluntary prayers performed in their occasions:

*The two festivals prayers.                                
*Rain invoking prayer.                               
*Eclipse prayer.

*Lunar eclipse prayer.                                         
*Rest prayer (Traweeh).

*AL-Kaᶦbah circumambulation prayer.             
*Returning from travel prayer.                
*Funeral prayer.

- All of them are two prayer units, except the rest prayer which ranges from eight to twenty prayer units.

- Funeral prayer is performed by saying, “God is the Greatest” four times without bowing down or prostration. 

c) Personal prayers:

*Praises prayer (Salat At Tasabeeh).                                                   
*Guidance prayer.

*Repentance prayer.                                          
*Need prayer.

- All of them are two prayer units, except the praises prayer which is four prayer units.

۞ A Muslim performs the following prayers alone:

*Praises prayer.                                  *Guidance prayer.

*Need prayer.                                     *Repentance prayer.

*Mosque greeting prayer.                  
*AL-Kaᶦbah circumambulation prayer.

*Forenoon prayer.                               *Returning from travel prayer.

And he performs the following prayers in a group:

*Rain invoking prayer.                          *The two festivals prayers.

*Lunar eclipse prayer.                           *Eclipse prayer.                               

*Rest prayer.                                         *Funeral prayer.