Masjid in the Arab countries host
first of all
Let us understand the math
What is that? Are we?
What is the Hajj or?
What is Witter? These are terminologies that I'm confused of don't be this is why I'm here
known as night prayer or
Salah to
this big umbrella
underneath it folds any prayer you pray after Isha and
Before the break of dawn the So anything you pray in between is considered to be night prayer
Hmm interesting. What about Taraweeh Taraweeh is
Specifically, night prayer offered during the month of Ramadan
Uh-huh. So if I pray during the month of Shaban
This is night prayer. If I pray during Hajj this is night prayer Taraweeh
specifically refers to night prayer done in the month of Ramadan
interesting
The only difference is that
The majority of scholars say that it has to be preceded by
sleeping
So if I pray after Isha at nine o'clock
For three hours is this to it they said no this is night prayer. But if I sleep after Isha
for an hour or five hours and
Then I wake up before
The break of dawn and I pray for an hour for a half for three hours for four hours. Is this tahajud?
Excellent. Why?
because
to wake up after sleeping is
Far difficult than to pray without sleeping. So I'm already awake. It's 10 o'clock
It's 11 o'clock. I'm still fit
There's no much effort needed. But when you sleep for three hours and
it's your
Cozy bed air condition is cold and it's dark. Everybody's asleep you wake up and say, huh?
Let me pray a night prayer. Let me pray
Shaitaan is whispering, and he said come on
Come on the night is long sleep and wake up after an hour or two and you go back to sleep you wake up only
It's difficult. It needs guts. It needs a strong will
Supported for you to wake up and pray.
More difficult than regular night prayer
Hmm. Okay. And what is Witter?
Witter in Arabic means odd
So one is with her three is with her five is with her seven is with her and so on
but usually, it refers to a single raka or three because this was
the habit of the Prophet
Night prayer is in twos
to offer Salam to offer set up to offer Salam and
Then the Prophet says I some if you fear the break of dawn
Then conclude this with one
so the total would be 11 or
21 or
51 or
One single raka to the even numbers of Rakas prayed earlier. So this is
If you understand all of this
You will
Understand that the Prophet
We've mentioned this earlier
He prayed three or four nights
Leading the companions in congregation in Ramadan then he stopped
But he continued to pray the whole night in the last 10 nights of ramadan
And this is why in the Arab world as you referred
the Muslims pray the first 20 nights in Taraweeh
when the last 10 nights
would be
increased
which are connected there's no problem in having a gap in between them where people would go and eat or
Have a good night's sleep and come back to conclude it