Is the qunut before the ruku' or after it?

Question : Is the qunut before the ruku' or after the ruku'?

Answer : Most of the hadiths, and the position held by most scholars, is that the qunut is after the ruku'. That is, the qunut is after the ruku'. If one makes the qunut before the ruku', there is no harm. That is, he completes the recitation, then makes the supplication, then bows, and there is no harm. So he is now given the choice between bowing when he has completed the recitation, and then when he raises his head and says, "Our Lord, to You belongs all praise," he makes the qunut, as is the case in most narrations and the position of most scholars. Or, when he finishes the recitation, he makes the supplication, then says the takbir and bows. All of this has come in the Sunnah, and there is no harm in it.