{"id":4903,"date":"2013-07-17T07:34:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T07:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/?p=4903"},"modified":"2013-07-18T06:56:15","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T06:56:15","slug":"number-of-rakahs-in-tarawih-prayer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/number-of-rakahs-in-tarawih-prayer-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of Rak`ahs in Tarawih Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Tarawih<\/i> Prayer (night prayer in Ramadan) has a great merit in Islam. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: &#8220;Whoever observes night prayer in Ramadan out of faith and seeking reward from Allah, his previous sins will be forgiven.&#8221; (Muslim)<b> <\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Prophet was the first to establish the <i>Tarawih<\/i> prayer in congregation at the mosque. However, he discontinued this act for fear that it might be made mandatory on the Muslim nation, and they might not be able to do it.<\/p>\n<p>As for the number of <i>rak`ahs<\/i> (unites of prayer) of <i>Tarawih<\/i>, scholars disagreed in this concern. The numbers mentioned for the <i>rak`ahs<\/i> of <i>Tarawih<\/i> are: 39, 29, 23, 19, 13, and 11. Of all the numbers mentioned, none is sounder than 11 <i>rak\u2019ahs<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>`A\u2019ishah (may Allah be pleased with her) was asked, \u201cHow was the prayer of the Prophet?\u201d She replied: &#8220;He did not pray in Ramadan or other than Ramadan more than eleven <i>rak\u2019ahs<\/i>.&#8221; (Al-Bukhari and Muslim)<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on this interesting talk with Sheikh Assim Al-Hakeem who clarifies this controversial issue and showing the Prophet\u2019s guidance in performing <i>Tarawih<\/i> Prayer.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KPqhobhsx_E?rel=0\" height=\"390\" width=\"620\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you know about Tarawih Prayer? How many are the rak`ahs of Tarawih Prayer? Is it limited to eleven rak`ahs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3262],"tags":[216,4632,14258,4556,1633,1732,4633,4323,4634,264,1658,2344,4635,4361,238,1661,1677,621,4204,2917,4565],"class_list":["post-4903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dont-miss","tag-acts-of-worship","tag-assim-al-hakeem","tag-dont-miss","tag-fasting-and-prayer","tag-how-muslims-pray","tag-how-to-pray","tag-merits-of-tarawih-prayer","tag-night-prayer","tag-optional-prayers","tag-prayer-in-islam","tag-prophets-prayer","tag-ramadan","tag-ramadan-nightly-prayer","tag-recommended-prayers","tag-salah","tag-salat","tag-significance-of-prayer","tag-sunnah-of-the-prophet","tag-tarawih-prayer","tag-witr-prayer","tag-worship-in-ramadan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Number of Rak`ahs in Tarawih Prayer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What is the Prophet\u2019s guidance in performing the Tarawih Prayer? 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