Question:
Assalaam Alaikum Ya Sayyidi!
1) During salaat-ul-tasbih I forget to do tasbih at some stage. How do I rectify my mistake?
2) I make wrong Niyyat for salaat, then realize my mistake after making Takbir. Should I carry on or make Tasleem and start again?
Shukran Jazeelan
Wasalaam
Answer:
wa `alaykum salam,
1) If you missed the tasbih, no problem. There is no problem except in missing al-Fatiha. Missing other than this in any prayer, you continue the prayer.
2) Example: I made niyyah to make salat adh-dhuhr but it was time to pray `Asr but I pronounced nawaytu an usalli salat al-dhuhr. Don’t break the prayer. Continue, as everything is based on its niyyah. You can continue with what you made niyyah for and consider it as qada, then pray `Asr. But if you want to continue on the real intention, it is OK.
In some schools of thought they say that the most important aspect is takbiratul-ihram; you don’t need niyyah of the prayer. For example, if you are praying at the time of dhuhr, you don’t need the niyyah of dhuhr because the time is well-known. You only need to enter the prayer. Allah is Forgiving and knows what you are praying.
Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani
