Suhaib Webb – Don’t Freak Out How To Pray The Eid Prayer

I know a lot of you are freaking

out right now. The reason you're freaking out

is because you're like, Oh snap,

Who's gonna pray the Eid prayer? Then you

look in the mirror,

and that's the answer.

Or if you're in a big family, someone's

gonna have to lead the Eid prayer. Or

if you're with your roommates, someone's gonna wanna

lead or have to lead the Eid prayer.

I got you. It's gonna be all gravy.

It's super easy. It's super easy. 1st and

foremost, though, some people may ask, is it

allowed to pray eat at home? Absolutely. The

hereatul kibara olima of El Azhar, the great,

great scholars

of Al Azhar University released a fatu, I

think, yesterday.

But even in the classical books of fiqh,

the majority

allow us to pray the Eid prayer at

our home, alhamdulillah,

whether in a group or by ourselves by

ourselves. How do you do it? Just remember

this. It's 2 rakat. 2 rakat, 2 cycles

of prayer. I mean, 1

up, down, down,

down, 1 up, down, down, and then down,

salaam salaam, like any nafal that you normally

pray.

There is a few points, though. You should

say it out loud. So it should be

read al fatiha and then whatever chapter you

choose to read, you should make it loud.

But here's the real difference. Alright? Pay attention.

No.

No.

Okay? There's no call to prayer, and there's

no call to establish to prayer like we

do for our far because this is you

know, Eid prayer is a little different.

So we start, we say,

Allahu

Akbar. Now normally in any regular prayer, say

Allahu Akbar, and we go straight into Surat

Al Fatihah.

However, for the Eid prayer, you're gonna do

this 7 times

before you read Al Fatihah

in the first rakah.

In the second rakah,

when you come up,

you're gonna do it 5 times. Let me

walk you through it. Alright?

Allahu Akbar.

Allahu

Akbar.

Allahu

Akbar.

And then you would come you would continue.

If you can, it's good to read Surat

Al A'la in the first rakah and Surat

Al Hashia in the second. If you can't,

it's all it's all gravy. So I'm in

my Fatiha. I did my 7. Reading Surat

Al Fatiha, then I read another chapter, then

I go into ruku.

Come up,

go down,

jelsa,

sujood.

Right? And stand up. And as I'm standing

up, Allahu Akbar.

And now I do the 5. Right? Add

4 to this. Allahu

Akbar.

That's the only difference.

That's the only difference

So that's how you do it one more

time. You should start out

add 6.

Right?

2nd time I'm coming up,

Allahu Akbar, I add 4 to make it

5.

You're gonna hear some differences in how many

you do. If you forget or add, it's

okay. This is not going to invalidate your

prayer. I remember one time when I first

did one of my first Eid prayers, I

was so nervous, and I did, like, 4.

Probably did 4 and a half. You know

what I'm saying? That's how nervous I was,

and this dude behind me went off. There's

no need to go off because this is

not an integral of the prayer. So if

you add or take away, it doesn't invalidate

your prayer. You're gonna do a great job.

What I encourage you to do is practice

the night before. You know what I'm saying?

If you're gonna lead the prayer, practice the

night before. So just work on it, lock

it in. You're gonna do fine, Insha'Allah.

Lastly,

if you want, you can watch one of

the local khobas on Zoom. There are gonna

be some great khobas out there, but the

khobah of Eid

is not an integral part of the Eid

prayer. What is integral is Allahu, is the

actual salah itself. You guys have a great

Eid. See you inshallah in a few weeks.

Assalamu alaykum Rahmatullah.