Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
I was just wondering if there were any methods to pray our qaza solah quickly. There is a fatwa by Imam Ahmed Raza Khan (Fatwa Razvia Vol.3, pages 621-2 & Al- Malfoozat Shareef, Vol.1, page 60-1) which tells us a very short method. I’d just like to know if there were other scholars who agrees with it.
Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah,
I pray that this finds you well, and in the best of health and spirits. May Allah grant you all good and success in this life and the next.
Imam Ahmad Raza Khan (Allah have mercy on him) was a great faqih, and his position that one should perform a minimal prayer (with the fard and wajib, but shortening even the sunnas) is a sound one, and adopted by others, too.
However, the position of my teachers, including Allama Adib Kallas (Allah preserve him) of Damascus, is that one should still perform the confirmed sunna actions within the prayer–as they remain confirmed sunna; and one’s prayer is still up for judgment, and these sunnas are means for one’s make up prayers to be acceptable and pleasing to Allah Most High.
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And Allah alone gives success.
Faraz Rabbani