Before Salah
  • Salah requires purity of one’s body, clothes, and place where you want to perform Salah.
  • Perform Ghusl (Full body Bathing) if you have sexual intercourse or sexual discharge for both men and women. Or if the woman just finished her monthly menstrual period. Make sure to have the NEAH (Make the intention) for the ghusl before taking the body bathing. It is Sunnah to clean your private body and perform Wudu while taking the Ghusl
  • Perform Ablution (Wudu).
  • Dress properly for Salah:
    • Make sure your cloth is clean from any impurities, especially the body wastes of humans and animals
    • Dress for males: they should cover the shoulders till below the knees
    • Dress for females: they should cover as a whole except for their face and hands
Start Salah - Takberat Al-Ihram
  • Make your intention (NEAH) to pray that specific Salah.
    The intention must be done in your heart without speaking it out.
  • Facing the Qibla (the direction of Makkah) to the best of your ability.
    If you are not able to face the Qibla for a valid reason, it is then permissible to perform Salah toward any direction.
  • Saying Takberat Al-Ihram "ALLAHU AKBAR" aloud .

    While saying Takberat Al-Ihram, raise your hands to the level of your ears or either to your shoulders while saying Takberat Al-Ihram.

    The moment you say "Allahu Akbar" the prayer will officially begin and you can not talk or do anything other than what is allowed to say or do during the Salah.

    IMPORTANT: Without Takberat Al-Ihram, your Salah will not be accepted and you have to redo it again
Qiam (standing) - what to say
  • Keep your eyes focused on the ground where you will be prostrating.
  • Place your right hand over your left in one of these positions in the image. scholars unanimously agreed that puting your right hand over the left in Salah is Sunnah.

    The fact that placing the right hand over the left hand is an act of the Sunnah and not obligatory in the prayer is proven by the hadeeth about the man who did not perform the prayer properly, after which the Prophet kept correcting him, saying, "Go back and pray, for you have not prayed." He, peace be on him, did not order him to place his right hand over the left in the prayer while he was teaching him the obligations of the prayer.
  • Read Al-Fatiha (A MUST)
    1. If you hasn’t memorized it yet, it is permissible for you to read while praying from a piece of paper or from your mobile. Please try to practice the TRANSLETERATION of Surah Al-Fatiha by clicking "Short Surahs To Memorize" button.
    2. If you find Al-Fatiha transleteration diffecult to pronounce, it is permissable to say
      "Allahu akbar wa la hawla wa la quwwata illa Billah (Glory be to Allah, praise be to Allah, there is no god except Allah, Allah is Most great and there is no power and no strength except with Allah)
      As this was narrated in a Hadith by al-Nasai, 924; Abu Dawud, 832. Its isnad was classed as jayyid by al-Mundhiri in al-Targhib wa’l-Tarhib, 2/430. al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar indicated that it is hasan in al-Talkhis al-Habir, 1/236.
  • It is a SUNNAH to read any number of Ayah you memorize after the Al-Fatiha in the first 2 Raaka.

Practice / Memorize Quran
After finsh reading during standing position

Move to Ruku (bowing down) position after saying "Allahu Akbar"
When you in Ruku position,say at least one time"Subhanna rabbeeyal adheem" (How perfect is my Lord, the Magnificent).
You can say it 1, 2, 3, or more.

Return to standing while saying "Sameea Allahu leeman hameeda" (Allah hears those who praise him).
When you are in a standing position lower your hands to your side and say "Rabbana walaka al- hamd" (Our Lord, to You is all praise)

Setting position

Move down to prostration (Called Sujud)

  • As you are moving to Sujud say "Allahu Akbar"
  • Make sure your forehead, nose, palms of both hands, knees, and both toes are touching the ground.
  • While you are in Sujud say at least one time "Subhanna Rabbeeyal ‘Alaa (How perfect is my Lord, the Most High)"
Setting position

Return to sitting position after saying "ALLAHU AKBAR"
Sit on your left leg. Your left foot will rest on the floor while your right foot is upright. Place your hands on your knees.

  • While sitting after the 2nd Rakaa, read the Tashahud.
    If this is not the final Rakaa, return to standing position while saying "Allahu Akbar".
  • While sitting after the last Rakaa
    read the Tashahud + Salatul Ibrahimiyyah.
Ending Salah

End your Salah by saying the "tasleem." The tasleem is to look to your right and say: "Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatu Allah" And then look to the left and say it again "Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatu Allah"





A detailed document on how to make Wudu and Salah


Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) Prayer
According to Authentic Ahadith



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