Faraz Rabbani – Weekly Q&A If One Has 20 Years of Makeup Prayers What Should He Do
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There's a question that if one has 20
years of makeup prayers.
Outside of Ramadan, may one follow the Maliki
opinion
and leave the Sunnah prayers
except the Sunnis
to focus on the Qada. The first thing
to do is to to consult
scholars
about one specific situation
because sometimes
one may overcompensate.
You say well, I prayed wrong. So you
make up every prayer that you had etcetera,
and that's not
correct.
We only make up the prayers that were
for sure
invalid
or unperformed.
So
in that regards my advice is
consult before you
actively make up an inordinate number of prayers.
And
that's, you know, that's not difficult to do.
And particularly if there's,
you know,
certain technicalities
one got wrong, what we've seen from the
olema is that on matters
related to makeup prayers,
one
can take dispensations
from other schools
to lift Qada. One can even take certain
weaker opinions but that is like surgery.
For one doesn't do it on oneself one
goes and consults scholars.
So Sheikh Adib Khallas for example I've seen,
Rahimullah a truly God fearing Hanafi scholar and
the great Faqih,
he would give
carefully,
yes, somewhat less strong opinions
that would lift the burden of makeup prayers,
particularly if someone prayed but got some technicalities
wrong. So that's where it's best to consult
about the specifics there.
As for omitting the Sunnas do your best,
do your best. If you can do
your current prayer
with its Sunnas and do a regular routine
of makeups that's best
because past shortcomings are not recipe for current
shortcomings.