Learn to Pray: A Reverts  Guide to Islam

 

How do you perform a correct prayer step by step? Prayer is one of the pillars of Islam and the foundation of religion. A Muslim must be keen to perform it at its specified times, with sincerity and supplication, and follow its steps so that it is a correct prayer and Allah accepts it from His servant.

 

Islam learning reverts

Islam is the religion of all the prophets, as they all called for the oneness of Allah – the Almighty – and worshipped Him alone, with no partner. The book of Islam is the Holy Quran, which was revealed in Arabic to the most honourable of creation, our master Muhammad. 

 

May Allah bless him and grant him peace to bring people out of darkness into the light. The conditions of Islam according to Islam learning for reverts are explained in the following complete beginner guide:

 

Reaching the age of discernment

Discrimination in the language is taken from the word “mizah,” which means to separate and isolate something from others. The jurists mean the age of discernment as the age at which a person knows what harms and benefits him. 

 

He can differentiate and distinguish between things and possesses the ability to be aware and perceive what is around him. Most jurists believe it begins at the age of seven and ends with puberty.

 

Reason

The validity of Islam requires that a person be sane. The conversion of an insane person to Islam is not valid independently. Rather, the insane person follows his guardian or one of his parents. If he is found in the land of Islam, he is judged to be a Muslim. There is no difference between if he was insane or if he was sane and then went insane.

 

Choice

• The conversion of a person who is forced to Islam is not valid. Rather, a person chooses Islam with his full will. 
• The choice is the opposite of coercion. 
• If someone is forced to convert to the religion but his heart rejects it, then it is not valid for him. 
• Coercion is of two types: complete coercion, which he converts under duress out of fear of death or the loss of a limb of his body, for example, and incomplete coercion, which does not require coercion and does not fear death, such as the threat of beating or imprisonment.

 

 

 

The two testimonies

One of the most important conditions for a person to enter Islam is to pronounce the two testimonies: 

• the testimony that there is no Allah but Allah and that Muhammad is His servant, ProphetProphet, and Messenger. 
• He must firmly believe that Allah – the Highest – is the only one to be worshipped in truth, that no one is associated with Him, and that our master Muhammad is the Messenger conveying the message of his Lord. 
• It is necessary to act by it in terms of acceptance, truthfulness, and sincerity. 
• It is required to pronounce the two testimonies with the tongue, as it is not enough to say them secretly. 
• Islam is entered by pronouncing them with the acknowledgement and reassurance of his heart.

 

Complete beginner guide to learning prayer and the Quran.

Islam’s learning for reverts is necessary so that they know that prayer has pillars; without them, the prayer is not complete and valid. The pillar is what the existence of a thing depends on and is included in its essence; in this way, it differs from the condition because of the condition. However, the existence of the ruling depends on its existence and is outside the essence and reality of the thing.

 

Ablution is a condition for the validity of prayer, but it is not part of its reality; rather, it precedes it, while bowing is a pillar in prayer and is included in its existence. The jurists explained the pillars of worship, and they generally agreed on them. Their opinions differed in some of its details according to the Salah and Quran course; its explanation is as follows:

 

Intention:

It is a pillar of prayer according to the Shafi’is and some Malikis. A condition of its conditions according to the Hanafis and Hanbalis and the most correct in the Maliki school of thought, and the intention indicates the heart’s determination and resolve to perform worship purely for Allah – the Most High -, and it is obligatory at the beginning of the prayer, and the purpose of the obligation of intention in prayer is to distinguish worship from customs, and to achieve complete sincerity to Allah – the Most High -.

 

The opening Takbir:

One of the pillars is the standing takbir; that is, the worshipper says: “Allahu Akbar” while standing if he can stand because standing is a pillar, and he says it in Arabic, and it is a pillar without which the prayer is not valid, and if he is unable to pronounce the Takbir, such as someone who is mute, then it is dropped from him.

 

Standing:

A Muslim must perform the prayer while standing if he can stand, based on the saying of the Messenger – may Allah blessings and peace be upon him – to Imran bin Husayn: (Pray while standing).

 

Reading:

Reciting Al-Fatihah is a pillar of prayer according to the majority of jurists in every rak’ah, and they have provided evidence for its pillar status. The Hanafis did not restrict the recitation to Al-Fatihah and said it is by reciting a verse from the Qur’an.

 

Bowing and being calm in it:

Bowing requires the worshipper to bend his back and head until his hands reach his knees, being calm for the time necessary to say a Tasbihah. The evidence for this is what the ProphetProphet – may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him – stated in the hadith in which he taught the companion who prayed before him but did not pray properl