Prayer (Salah) is an obligatory worship for both males and females in Islam, as was discussed before in How Muslims Pray. This article will discuss Prayer guides for muslim women. As rules for performing prayers vary for women, this guide is designed to help girls and females learn how to pray (Perform Salah For Women).
Eilaf institution has put together a step-by-step guide for performing Salah about How to Pray in Islam for Beginners Females, who are learning prayers for the first time or for those who want to refresh their knowledge.
Before beginning the salah
Here are the 4 steps for beginning the salah simple as it is:
Step 1: Prepare yourself for the Prayer.
Step 2: Perform the wudu.
Step 3: Get into your prayer position.
Step 4: Perform pre-prayer (Dua).
How to perform wudu(ablution)?
Before we may do salah, we must prepare ourselves emotionally, physically, and spiritually. A significant element of this preparation is known as wudu. Every Muslim must go through a purifying ritual before they can pray. It is such a crucial portion of the salah that anyone who chooses to leave it out of ignorance, carelessness, or negligence will have their prayer rejected by Allah.
Our beloved Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: “No salah is accepted without wudu (purification)” Sahih Muslim, Book 2, Hadith 2.
(لا صلاة بغير وضوء)
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Wudu Steps:
Make your intention to perform Wudu, and say Bismillah (بسم الله).
The first step of Wudu is to comprehend that you perform Wudu as an action of Tahara to perform your Salah. And you develop your intention for the matter of having accepted worship (Salah) from your heart and mind. Before washing ourselves, we must say Bismillah (In the Name of Allah). You can repeat it softly to yourself.
Washing Hands
Our Prophet Muhammed (Peace be upon him) had taught us to always start with the right side first, which means you have to wash your right hand from the fingertips to the wrist 3 times, ensuring that water touches every part of the hand.
Rinse your mouth.
Three times
Sniff water into your nose.
Three times
Wash your face.
The water should reach each part of your face, from ear to ear and from the top of your head to the bottom of your chin. Wash it 3 times.
Wash your arms.
Starting from the fingertips to the elbow 3 times.
Wipe Your Head and Clean Your Ears.
Wash Your Feet 3 Times. (Same as washing your arms from your toes to your ankle).
Recite the Shahada and the Dua
- “Ash-hadu an la ilaha illal lahu wa ash-hadu anna Muhammadan ‘abduhu wa rasuluh.”
“أشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وأشهد أن محمداً عبده ورسوله”.
This means “I testify that there is no god but Allah, and I also testify that Muhammad is His servant and messenger.”
- After this statement you would make the following dua: “Allahuma j‘alnee mina tawabeen waj-‘alnee minal mutatahireen”
“اللهم اجعلني من التوابين واجعلني من المتطهرين”
Which means “O Allah, make me among those who seek repentance and make me among those who purify themselves.”
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Steps of Praying in Islam for Beginner Female
About the prayer in Islam or how to perform Salah, here is your step-by-step guide from Eilaf for beginner females:
First step:Stand
Stand upright and face the Qiblah.
Second step:Intend to pray
Make sure that you have the intention by saying: “I intend to perform the (say the name of the Salah) prayer, with (say the number of Rakaat – Sunnah or Fard), for the sake of Allah, I am facing the Holy Kaaba.” The intention need not be said out loud. Saying it in the heart is sufficient.
Third step:recite Allah Akbar
Raise your hands to your shoulders with palms facing the Qiblah and Say “Allahu Akbar” (الله أكبر). Your hands should be within the cloth sheet and not be brought out.
Fourth step:Place hands on the chest
Do the (Qiyam) by lowering your hands down and folding them on your chest; this is done by placing your right palm on top of the left one.
Fifth Step:Read Tsmiyah
Now you are in Salah, so you have to read the Tasmiyah by saying (Bismillah Al-Rahman- Al-Rahim) (بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم) (In the Name of Allah, Most Kind, Most Merciful).
Sixth Step:Recite surah Al-fatihah
Start to recite Surah Al-Fatihah) (سورة الفاتحة).
“بسۡمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ (1)
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful.
ٱلۡحَمۡدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ ٱلۡعَٰلَمِينَ (2)
[All] praise is [due] to Allah, Lord of the worlds –ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ (3)
The Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful,
مَٰلِكِ يَوۡمِ ٱلدِّينِ (4)
Sovereign of the Day of Recompense.
إِيَّاكَ نَعۡبُدُ وَإِيَّاكَ نَسۡتَعِينُ (5)
It is You we worship and You we ask for help.
ٱهۡدِنَا ٱلصِّرَٰطَ ٱلۡمُسۡتَقِيمَ (6)
Guide us to the straight path –
صِرَٰطَ ٱلَّذِينَ أَنۡعَمۡتَ عَلَيۡهِمۡ غَيۡرِ ٱلۡمَغۡضُوبِ عَلَيۡهِمۡ وَلَا ٱلضَّآلِّينَ (7)
The path of those upon whom You have bestowed favour, not of those who have evoked [Your] anger or of those who are astray.”
Seventh Step:Recite any other surah
After finishing Al-Fatiha starts to Recite any Surah or verses from Quran.
Eighth Step:Bow (Rku)
After finishing the recitation say: Allahu Akbar (الله اكبر), and go for Ruku (ركوع). In Ruku, the fingers of both hands should be together and placed on the knees, and the arms should be well joined to the sides and the ankles of both feet should be together.
As a woman, you should only bow to the extent that your hands reach the knees.
Ninth step:recite ruku’s dua
In Ruku, we recite the following phrase for 3 times:
سبحان ربي العظيم
Subhaana Rabbiyal ‘Azeem (Glory be to my Lord, The Greatest)
Tenth step:Stand after ruku
Stand up in the Qawmah position while reciting the Tasbeeh and say: Sami Allahu liman hamidah (Allah listens to him who has praised Him) (سمع الله لمن حمده).
Eleventh step:Prostrate (Sujud)
say Allahu Akbar (الله أكبر) and go into Sujud.
In Sujud your knees should touch the ground, afterward your hands should be placed in line with your ears and your fingers should be close together.
The head should be placed between both hands, and both your forehead and nose should touch the ground.
Females should draw themselves closely together and press themselves firmly while in Sujud. Your stomach also should be joined to the sides and both arms should be placed on the ground.
Twelfth step:recite Sujud’s dua
At Sujud you should recite the following phrase 3 times:
Subhaana Rabbiyal a’ala سبحان ربي الأعلى
(Glory to my Lord Most High)
Thirteenth step:Say Allahu Akbar and sit up
Then, say Allahu Akbar (الله أكبر) raise your head from the ground, and sit down.
Fourteenth Step:recite dua & sujud again
Say: Allahum Ehfir le (اللهم اغفر لي) for 3 times. Then, Say Allhu Akbar and perform the Suhud again.
Fifteenth step:Qiyam
Stand up while reciting “Allahu Akbar”. This position will be Qiyam.
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Sixteenth step:Repeat all the steps again
Repeat steps for the second Rakah.
The last step:end the salah
After the second Rakah (Second Sajdah), sit down (go into Jalsah), while saying Allahu Akbar, the woman should sit on her left buttock and take out both feet towards the right side. With both hands on the thighs, her fingers joined together and seated to recite the Tashahhud.
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