04/05/2021
How To Pray Tahajjud
✔️ First start off with reciting the Dua for Tahajjud before starting the salah.
✔️ Then Pray 2 rakats of Salah each (without iqamah) and it can be prayed till 8 rakat, how much of that you want to pray for example, 2 rakat or 4 rakat or 6 rakat or 8 rakat is upto you but more is always better.
✔️ After Tahajjud Salah is done, it is the sunnah to end with three rakat witr and if time is short (Fajr time is near) then end with one rakat of Witr Salah.
✔️ If you are going to pray Tahajjud then pray Witr prayer after Tahajjud Prayer, but if you have already prayed Witr after Isha Prayer then do not pray Witr Prayer again because there is only one Witr in a night.
✔️ Make Dua and ask for forgiveness and for Jannatul Ferdous and refuge against Hellfire.
✔️ It is best to pray Tahajjud Salah 1 to 1.5 hours (last one third of night) before Fajr starts.
✔️ We calculate time of Tahajjud by looking at the hours between Magrib and Fajr Salah.
✔️ If Magrib is at 9pm and Fajr is at 3am between them is six hours, divide those six hours by 3. So we have 2 hours 2 hours and 2 hours
So 9pm till 11pm is the first third of night
11pm till 1am is the second third of night
1am till Fajr is the last third of night
-- Allah Descends to the First Heaven Every Night
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "When it is the last third of the night, our Lord, the Blessed, the Superior, descends every night to the heaven
of the world and says, 'Is there anyone who invokes Me (demand anything from Me), that I may respond to his invocation; Is there anyone who asks Me for something that I may give (it to) him; Is there anyone who asks My forgiveness that I may forgive him?' "
Sahih al-Bukhari 6321
-- Dua Before Tahajjud
اللَّهُمَّ لَكَ الْحَمْدُ أَنْتَ قَيِّمُ السَّمَوَاتِ وَالأَرْضِ وَمَنْ فِيهِنَّ وَلَكَ الْحَمْدُ، لَكَ مُلْكُ السَّمَوَاتِ وَالأَرْضِ وَمَنْ فِيهِنَّ، وَلَكَ الْحَمْدُ أَنْتَ نُورُ السَّمَوَاتِ وَالأَرْضِ، وَلَكَ الْحَمْدُ أَنْتَ الْحَقّ
