How Can I Pray Tahajjud? Is It Similar to the 5 Prayers or Do I Need To Memorize Some Verses?

Answered by: Shaykh Ahmed bin Mohamed Umarji

Question:

How can I pray Tahajjud? Is it similar to the 5 prayers or do I need to memorize some verses?

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

Answer:

Tahajjud is performed in the same manner as other prayers.

Hereunder are some points about Tahajjud.

• Tahajjud Salaat is Sunnat and carries great reward
• In Salaat ut, Tahajjud Du’aa’s are accepted
• The time for Tahajjud is after Esha’ until true dawn
• It is better that Tahajjud is performed in the latter part of the night
• If no one could wake up and Tahajjud was performed after Esha’, then one will get the reward of Tahajjud
• One can perform 4 Rak’ats or 8 Rak’ats of Tahajjud
• It is better to perform 8 Rak’ats. ¹

Only Allah knows best

Written by Shaykh Ahmed bin Mohamed Umarji

Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah

Darul Ifta Birmingham

1 Thamratul Fiqh, Page 101, Zam Zam Publishers