Can A Muslim Pray In English?

Can A Muslim Pray In English

In Islam, praying is one of the five pillars of the Islamic religion. Praying is obligatory for every Muslim. Muslims have 5 prayers during the day. What makes praying in Islam very important is that the prophet Muhammad said to us that salah is the deal between Muslims and God if we stop praying this deal will be broken. So, this means that praying is crucial to every Muslim, also praying must be in the Arabic language because the Arabic language is the language of the holy Quran. So, Muslims should pray using the Arabic language to maintain unity in praying.

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Praying(Salah)

After saying shahada, Muslims must know How to perform salah according to quran ?, by understanding the obligatory prayers that Muslim supposed to be prayed daily such as Fajr (dawn) –Duhhar (midday) –Asr (Afternoon) –Maghrib (Sunset) Isha (Night), those are the 5 obligatory prayers that every Muslim must pray it every day. Also, its name in Islam is called salah. So, Muslims know how to pray this prayer and what to say on it. Also one of the essential rules of salah is ablution before going to praying. Ablution is to wash some part of your body with water to be able to pray. Every salah has its own rules so muslims must read about every salah’s rule to know how to pray.

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Can A Muslim Pray In English Instead of Arabic Language?

Praying in Islam must be performed in the Arabic language because it’s the Quran language, so Muslims during praying recite some Quranic surah, so praying must be in Arabic to be able to recite the holy Quran. But there are non-Arabic Muslims that can’t read the Arabic language, so they invented a new prayer rug. This rug was invented to help them recite Arabic .It works that if the person makes a new movement during salah it says what Muslim was supposed to say and the person repeats it. After using this rug many times Muslims will be able to pray without obstacles and will know what they say in every part of salah, so there are many tools Muslims use to help him to talk Arabic during praying because they can’t speak with their language except Arabic language.

Is It Possible to Make Dua with English?

The answer to this question is yes, Muslims who can’t speak Arabic can make dua with the English language. Muslims can use any language to make dua because the important part of it is that from the deepest heart of the person, the person when Muslim starts to make dua, must mean every word he says. After all, if the dua is accepted, what he said will happen. So, Muslims must know what they will say about it and what wishes that are needed from it and start to make dua. So the language isn’t the obstacle that will face Muslims when they want to start making dua.