The Witr Prayer at Home or in the Mosque
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: I am a person who used to be diligent in performing the Witr prayer in the mosque immediately after the Isha prayer. Then I wanted to attain the virtue of praying it at home at the end of the night, but often I fall asleep and do not pray it. What is your advice to me? Should I go back to praying it in the mosque, or what should I do?
Answer:
No, pray it at home at the beginning of the night, before you sleep, if you fear that you will not get up to pray it at the beginning of the night. However, your prayer at home, the Witr, is better than praying it in the mosque. The rawatib, meaning the voluntary prayers, are better when prayed at home. You enliven your home with the remembrance of Allah and worship. Indeed, the best prayer of a person is in his home, except for the obligatory prayers. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: I am a person who used to be diligent in performing the Witr prayer in the mosque immediately after the Isha prayer. Then I wanted to attain the virtue of praying it at home at the end of the night, but often I fall asleep and do not pray it. What is your advice to me? Should I go back to praying it in the mosque, or what should I do?
Answer:
No, pray it at home at the beginning of the night, before you sleep, if you fear that you will not get up to pray it at the beginning of the night. However, your prayer at home, the Witr, is better than praying it in the mosque. The rawatib, meaning the voluntary prayers, are better when prayed at home. You enliven your home with the remembrance of Allah and worship. Indeed, the best prayer of a person is in his home, except for the obligatory prayers. Yes.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 21-03-1434هـ — alfawzan.live (1:01:12)
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