Abu Taymiyyah – Why Its Permissible to Pray More than 11 for Taraweeh

Abu Taymiyyah
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The speaker discusses the issue of praying more than 11 in Nazimin Allah's message. They mention two groups, left and right-w wing, who criticize the message. The speaker also discusses the issue of praying more than 11 and the need for tolerance in the world. They conclude by discussing the importance of praying at the right time and finding the best time to pray.

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			Praying more than 11 rakaats
		
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			in the
		
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			Taraweeh.
		
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			Let's look at now what in Nazimin Allah
		
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			mentioned.
		
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			It is not appropriate
		
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			that we have that
		
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			we have extremism,
		
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			that we go overboard,
		
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			and also by negligence
		
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			with regards to this issue. What is this
		
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			issue?
		
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			The issue of praying more than 11.
		
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			You have 2 groups, left wing and right
		
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			wing.
		
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			Not Tommy Robinson.
		
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			Got left wing, right wing.
		
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			You got a group of them who say,
		
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			that if somebody now prays
		
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			more than 11 raka'ats,
		
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			then this individual now his action is a
		
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			bidah.
		
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			You have another extreme. Anybody who prays 11,
		
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			they criticize him.
		
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			So you have those who pray more,
		
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			they are criticizing. And those who stick with
		
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			11, they criticize as well. If both of
		
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			them are criticizing, one time a guy called
		
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			me and I was in Lester.
		
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			And obviously, he sees the position that it's
		
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			okay for somebody,
		
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			to pray 20. That's my position as well.
		
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			And he was handling
		
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			me. And the guy is blasting me on
		
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			the phone. He's talking to me. I'm like,
		
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			okay. I I'm with you, brother.
		
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			And I try to make him understand,
		
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			why are you calling me as if I
		
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			have a position that anyone who prays more
		
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			than 11 is a billah?
		
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			And I told him, This
		
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			is Madhab Imam
		
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			This is the madam of Imam Abu Hanifa
		
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			And the guy went quiet. God talks for
		
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			like 15 minutes.
		
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			Blasting me, criticizing me. Why? What are you?
		
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			Salafis, Wahhabis, bro.
		
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			So you have these 2 extremes.
		
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			So then he goes on to say,
		
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			So you have that group who says, you
		
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			can't pray more than that which was mentioned
		
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			in the sunnah. And we have a hadith,
		
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			hadith
		
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			What did you say?
		
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			He would pray 11, and she said he
		
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			never prayed anything more than that.
		
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			In Ramadan, outside Ramadan, and we have another
		
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			narration where the best of Allah has to
		
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			pray 13. So we have this narration where
		
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			there's an adid, a specific number, 11 and
		
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			13.
		
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			And you find that type of individual,
		
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			he's very harsh
		
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			in criticizing that individual who plays more than
		
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			11.
		
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			We are called
		
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			They go as far as saying that he's
		
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			he's sinful, and he's disobedient.
		
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			In the
		
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			Ramadan.
		
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			When you took me and then he would
		
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			what? The wither of
		
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			the
		
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			Aza.
		
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			Many scholars,
		
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			they saw that this is the
		
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			sunnah.
		
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			Because this is something that he done from
		
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			with amongst the
		
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			The companions were there.
		
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			And nobody disapproved of this.
		
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			And there's another group of scholars,
		
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			Alim Muhammadullah,
		
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			who say that the sunnah is to do
		
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			39.
		
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			Why? Because this was the action of the
		
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			people of Madina.
		
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			In Madina, this is what they used to
		
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			pray. And Imam Malik saw
		
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			them doing this in Madina, he took it.
		
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			And some scholars even go as far as
		
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			saying that there's Ijma,
		
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			that you can break 20.
		
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			Listen to the evidence.
		
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			They say that you find that this is
		
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			the action that takes place
		
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			all the way till our time.
		
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			Who's saying this? It's It's
		
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			says
		
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			The Muslims carried on praying it,
		
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			20 rakaats.
		
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			And when did his Hafib Narahu
		
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			passed away? He died in the year 241
		
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			Israeli.
		
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			So this is something that continued.
		
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			Okay? Something that continued even in the time
		
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			of the Sahaba, the time of the so
		
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			on and so forth.
		
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			Are you with me guys?
		
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			So all that period you find it discontinued.
		
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			There's many many that I can mention. I'm
		
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			gonna be conclude with 2.
		
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			Whoever thinks
		
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			that
		
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			has a specific number and you can't do
		
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			more and you can't do less,
		
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			and this individual has,
		
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			the
		
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			also Ibrahim Abdul Bar in Islam he
		
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			says
		
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			k. There isn't a specific number when it
		
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			comes to the rakat
		
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			of
		
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			And
		
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			that with anyone from the people of knowledge,
		
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			that can be what? Exceeded.
		
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			Why is a wonderful topic.
		
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			It's a wonderful issue.
		
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			It is what? A righteous act.
		
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			Highest act that a person can engage in.
		
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			And
		
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			whoever wants
		
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			can do more.
		
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			Anyone wants to do less, it's fine.
		
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			And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gives no fear
		
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			to give success
		
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			to whoever he was and he aids him.
		
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			And that which he does.
		
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			Point of the matter is my brother's as
		
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			you can see, is this now an issue
		
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			that we can be rough and tough in?
		
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			It's an issue which is what?
		
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			Room for discussion. Right?
		
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			There's room for tolerance.
		
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			It's an issue that can be discussed, but
		
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			should we now be doing
		
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			on one another, calling this guy an innovator,
		
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			blasting this individual, being rough? The answer is
		
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			no.
		
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			Because my brothers and my sisters, when you
		
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			look at their hadith, look at this hadith
		
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			that was narrated
		
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			by
		
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			Which is the night?
		
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			Which is heard?
		
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			The most virtuous time that you could pray.
		
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			The last 3rd of the night.
		
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			Pray as much as you want
		
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			or whatever you want.
		
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			Also, Nirmala radiya Muhammadan Muhammad said,
		
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			I am going to pray the same way
		
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			I saw my companions praying.
		
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			I'm not going to prohibit anybody
		
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			who prays at night.
		
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			Even in the daytime for however what he
		
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			was afraid.
		
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			Except just don't pray at a time when
		
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			the sun is rising and also when the
		
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			time
		
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			is sun is setting.
		
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			Also, there's a narration that Imam Al Bani,
		
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			your
		
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			authenticated
		
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			to him.
		
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			Pray in the night whatever
		
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			rocks your
		
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			boat.
		
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			But like I said, it's the best that
		
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			a person, he ends up doing what?
		
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			He does 11, but he also does it
		
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			how?
		
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			With the imam.
		
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			If someone's going to say let us now
		
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			follow the sunnah of the messian as salallahu
		
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			alayhi wa sallam, and you wanna pray the
		
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			most virtuous type of PM,
		
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			what do you do?
		
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			You look at?
		
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			The 3. The 3 things that I mentioned
		
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			to you guys. The first one was what?
		
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			The number of rakat.
		
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			9.
		
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			8. Right? That's what the messrah alaihi wasallam
		
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			prayed as Aisha radhiallahu ta'ala mentioned.
		
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			He would do 8 and then he would
		
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			do 3. You also look at what? The
		
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			time. The time. When is the best time
		
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			to pray?
		
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			Last
		
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			5th.
		
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			Last 5th.
		
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			The last 5th. If you split the night
		
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			into 6th,
		
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			into 6 pieces.
		
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			K? Or in the 6th parts, go for
		
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			the 5th. I already explained. Go back to
		
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			Ahmed Al Hakam
		
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			how to go about,
		
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			calculating the time.
		
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			Also, would you look at? What's the third?
		
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			How how how much? How?
		
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			How? A sifa.
		
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			What is the best type of?
		
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			That a person, he
		
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			go to sleep before?
		
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			He prays and also he Go to sleep.
		
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			Follows you up by sleeping. Before.
		
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			He only ends up waking up for the
		
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			purpose of praying in the night. And also
		
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			how?
		
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			It makes it really really long.
		
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			She will say, we'll pray for, don't ask
		
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			about how beautiful
		
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			and how long he was. Meaning, it was
		
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			so beautiful,
		
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			and they would do 4.
		
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			So you look at these three issues from
		
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			3 different angles in order for it to
		
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			be the most virtuous prayer that you can
		
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			pray and that is the sun of the
		
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			mess of Allah. It's not just looking at
		
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			it as it's being 8 rakat
		
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			And I'm praying very, very quickly.