Dua in the witr prayer

Spørsmål

Assalam o alaikum. We were wondering if when praying Witr and in the third rak’ah, do you have to know Dua e Qanoot? If you don’t remember this Dua, is there anything else you can pray instead? MVH

Svare

Assalamu alaikum,

Thank you for your inquiry.

There are several other duas that can be recited in the third rak’ah of the witr prayer. It is important to learn one of them by heart and recite them when praying witr. However, if one does not know any of these, one can recite, for example, this well-known dua from the Quran: Rabbana atina fid-dunya hasanah wa fil-akhirati hasanah wa qina azaban-nar (2:201).

It is also possible to simply say the following words three times if one does not know any dua: Allahum-maghfir lana (Bahar-e-Shariat: 1/263), which means Allah forgive us!

And Allah knows best.

Wassalam
Najeeb ur Rehman Naz

Besvart av:

Najeeb ur Rehman Naz