 Peace be upon you all, and welcome to the show that discusses Islamic duties and practices by His Eminence the Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Sadiq Shirazi, I am your host, Muslim Shah, and joining me is Sheikh Ali Maa. Peace be upon you all. Peace be upon you all. How are you? Alhamdulillah. Thank you. Sheikh Maa, in the last episode we were talking about Qadar prayers. You mentioned the conditions for Qadar prayers, whether we can do it in congregation or not. I wanted to ask you, Sheikh, what happens if one person discovers that he wasn't performing the Salah properly? For example, maybe I wasn't pronouncing Surah Al Hamd correctly for five years or so, and now I've realized, oh, I wasn't, you know, praying correctly. Those previous Salah, are they Qadar, do I have to make them up? I seek refuge with Allah from Satan, the accursed, in the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Merciful. Alhamdulillah, Lord of all the worlds, and peace and blessings of Allah be upon Muhammad and his family, the righteous and the pure. Initially, it is very important for our respected youth to, just before they get to the age of adolescence or even afterwards, to learn Ahkam al-salah from the beginning of the Qira'ah, of the Takbir, till the end of the doubts and shukuk, just to make sure that they're on the safe side, that if they discover in, I don't know, five, ten, twenty years time that their Salah was, for example, a battle for any reason or wasn't correct. So it's better that we learn these Ahkam from the beginning. If I'm a youth in my, in the age of seventeen, eighteen, or even less, just open the book of the Massaj of my own Marja and read it. How do I perform the Hamd, the Surah, is it allowed or with silence, for example? The Takbirah, is it a must, or I can ignore it, for example, and start the Salah with the Hamd straight, for example? And the Arkan and so forth, important that we try to avoid doing Qaw'ah every time when we discover that something is missing from the Salah and that is, let's say, a key element and Rukun, for example, or let's say some might never know about the specific Ghusul, the Wajib Ghusul, and then they discover after a few years that they prayed without doing the Ghusul, the Wajib Ghusul, that purifies them for the Salah. So it's important that for the youth, and even those who are older than the youth, to be able to study and ask about these Haqqam, to avoid excessive, you know, act of repeating of Salah and Qad'ah. What has got to the questions you asked, there's no need for the one to repeat the Salah, as long as they're going to start reading the Hamd Surah correctly from now on. What you did before, that's fine, don't worry about it. So from now on, make sure that you read the Hamd Surah correctly and accordingly. And of course, let's say it says it's preferable as a precaution for the one to repeat it. If you want to repeat it, it's better either. But anyway, it's not Wajib for the one to repeat the Salah. Asen Sheikhna. Sheikhna, I think it's important that we don't get mixed up with, you know, having a mistake in your Salah, and you were missing a ruqan of Salah. For example, if I prayed for one whole year without doing the Takbir at the beginning, so I would say Bismillah and go straight into my Salah, and I thought that was fine, that was right. Later on I discovered, no, this is wrong. In that case, I have to repeat my Salah, no? I mean, that's why I said that those individuals must learn the Aqam, and it's mentioned in the beginning of the Rasala of the Marja that you must learn the Aqam in which you are facing daily. So you must learn the Aqam Salah, it's Wajib. It's roughly what are the Wajib acts and the Aqam in the Salah, so you don't miss them. So if you prayed one year without Takbir at al-Haram, or you missed a ruqo' or two sujoods, for example, in one of the rak'at of the Salah, then you have to repeat the Salah, of course. The ruqan and the key element, if it's missed, then you have to make it up later, the whole Salah. The Salah is battle. So that's the problem we have within our communities that some would not really ask or seek advice and get information about the Salah and its Aqam, and eventually it falls or she falls into the idea of they have to go back and repeat the whole year, for example. As I mentioned previously, the one prayed without the right way of usul, for example, or without imidun usul, and of course they have to repeat the Salah in this case. Sheikhna, what about an individual who in their youth didn't really pay much attention to Salah, didn't really follow the obligations properly, but as they got older and wiser, they took Salah with more precaution and with greater care. Does that individual have to repeat his Salah? Well this individual should perform the Qabah of the Salah that he missed for any reason and they should try to work out the estimate how much of the Salah that they have missed. Let's say they might say, I think I missed a whole month because I didn't do usul in that whole month, the wajib usul, for example. In this case, he must repeat the whole month worth of Salah of that month, and so on. And as I've said, the best way is to get the knowledge of the Aqam of Salah in that young age to avoid falling in the repeating of not only a month, it could be a year, it could be a decade you have to repeat, one or two decades of your time that you have to repeat, and that's huge, it's a lot. Sheikhna, what about an individual who thinks, so he's not 100% sure, but he thinks that his previous prayers may have been void, may not have been good enough, or he made a mistake, maybe he wasn't sure his wudu was correct, or his usul, does that individual have to perform Qadah of those prayers? For such person, he needs to only repeat the ones that he's sure about. So if you're certain that you missed, let's say, one week of Salah for whatever reason it was, then you must repeat one week, and forget about the rest, the ones that you are unsure of. So make sure that you try to work out exactly how many days or weeks you missed, and you only do the Qadah of the ones you're sure about, and you leave the rest. So it's a case of doubt, if there's doubt, then we don't really need to pay attention to the doubt unless there's certainty. You're full of certainty and assurance. Sheikhullah, you mentioned about, we discussed people who passed away, and parents if they have Qadah of prayers, that it is upon the eldest son to perform those Qadah of prayers. What if we have an individual who in the elderly age doesn't really pray much, or maybe they have a mental illness where they forget to pray, or because of their illness they don't pray properly, are those prayers still mandatory upon the children or the eldest child? You see, in some cases, those elderly reach the age in which they lose awareness. Even if you go to them as their grandson or son, they can recognize you. You tell them my name is such and such, do you know me? They can't even answer you. In such cases, the Salah would be dropped for those elderly who lose awareness. They can recognize what is right from the wrong. However, in this case, we don't have to repeat their Salah or do the Qadah as elderly son. It's not wajib, because their situation, the duty of Salah is dropped from them. That illness that they're in reached the stage in which they don't have to pray anymore. Halas, the man or that woman who is in their 70s, 80s, and they cannot be aware of their surroundings. They don't have to pray anymore, halas. They're just a piece of flesh on the bed and waiting for their departure from the world. In this case, there's no wajib on us as elderly son to pray the Salah if they pass away afterwards and do the Qadah of the parents. We look at our Marajah in Fouqaha, may Allah protect them and give them long lives. They're in their 80s and 90s, and they're still very sharp and their brains are very, very active. Shaikhullah, there's one thing I wanted to discuss with you, and that is in regards to Qadah prayers. Let's be honest, there is no real reason for your Salah to go Qadah, and there is no real reason for you to miss your prayer. And maybe this is an issue in our community and maybe it's an issue with our youth that they pray Salah, they delay their prayers, and they pray right at the last minute, and in a way they're flirting with their Salah becoming Qadah. Is there any advice or tips you can give the youth to make sure that they don't allow their Salah to go Qadah? Well, the Holy Quran states clearly that Salah would refrain from performing the daily Salah and refrain from the acts of indecency and wrongdoing. So the act of Salah itself will push away the Satan, push away those bad desires and habits, and attract the one towards Allah and worship and morality and ethics and so forth, and faith. So if I don't really care about the Salah and I try to pray it as Qadah for example deliberately without any reason, I mean in this case that individual might fall into some kind of haram acts and inappropriate acts for example. You might see him listening to music for example, songs for example, you might see him going for dating for example, or eating haram food for example. Why? Because he neglected the Salah and he knew that the Salah is wajib. So neglecting the Salah might cause that the one, the individual would fall into the acts of haram in his daily life. And that's on top of the haram that he's committing by leaving the Salah till it gets Qadah and he has to make it up later. So the best advice is to as we are organized in our time, we get to school by 9 o'clock, we go to work on time, make sure we don't come to the work late, and so forth, let's also have this schedule for our own daily Salah, which is the guarantee for the success in dunya and akhira. Rabbana aatana fil dunya hasana wa fil akhira ti hasana waqina aadab al-naar. There is something awaiting us in the hereafter, so either good or bad, it depends on our deeds. So we try to win both, the dunya and akhira, the one who wins both worlds, he's the true winner. So we try insha'Allah to perform these obligatory acts, Salah or other non-salah, you know, Siyam, Hajj and so forth. And try to get as much as we can in this dunya of good deeds and to be our savings for the hereafter and in Paradise insha'Allah. Sheikhullah, do we have any narrations that suggest that we should pray early and on time, rather than praying towards the end of the time period of Salah? Well, initially the khuliq Quran states that there are three main times in the daily prayers, in the early, the dawn time, and the noon time and the dusk time. So it's mentioned, there's a verse in the Quran that mentions that these are the prescribed times that when the adhan is called, then we have to pray. Of course, it's mustahab, it's not wajib. But we need to get this mustahab because we need rewards on the day of judgment. That hasana, one hasana and reward counts a lot for us. So the better and the best is to offer the Salah on time as much as we can to get those rewards. And of course, the narration which we speak about, that you get the bounty of this dunya, the rizq, you know, the sustenance of those who pray on time and other hadith about praying on time. And of course, the rewards in the hereafter are greater. So we should stick with the verse of the holy Quran and the hadith. And we try to please Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala by praying on time to make it a habit as we have some habits every day. We try to make the habit that we pray on time so we can enjoy the rest of the time happily without the worry of that I have to pray, you know, just ten minutes before the sunrise, for example. I pray from the first minute the hadana is cold and I rest the rest of the minutes and hours. I think it's also been made mustahab for the convenience, you know, and out of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's mercy because not everyone can make it at that time. So, you know, it's been made easier for yourself so that you have a good window, a time period to pray the Salah. But it's been made mustahab that, yes, we should be praying it on time as soon as the hadana has been. Thank you very much, Sheikhna, for today's discussion. And thank you to all the viewers for joining us on the Haqqam SOS. Insha Allah, we'll be discussing more on our next episode. See you then. Salamu alaikum, rahmatullah. Wabarakatuh.