Is the post-prayer Sunnah of the Isha prayer included in the eleven rak'ahs of the night prayer?
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The questioner : How are you, my Shaykh?
The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah, I am well...
The questioner : Shaykh, we are calling you from... Kazakhstan.
The Shaykh: Where are you from?
The questioner : From Kazakhstan, the Islamic Republic of Kazakhstan.
The Shaykh: Welcome...
The questioner : How are you, my brother?
The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah, I am well...
The questioner : May Allah grant you good health, Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah, I am well and in good health.
The questioner : May Allah bless you, if Allah wills. How are the academic lessons, if Allah wills?
The Shaykh : Who?
The questioner : The academic lessons.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed, these books are in front of me, and I am taking the refined honey from them.
The questioner : We praise Allah; with the help of Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He), the aspirations increase and the productions increase with the help of Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He).
The Shaykh : If Allah wills ... .
The questioner : We ask Allah for that. May we proceed with some questions, Shaykh, if you have the time, if Allah wills? If you could give us five or ten minutes, perhaps, if Allah wills, that would benefit us... regarding our academic questions, knowing that... we are in a foreign land and there are few scholars here.
The Shaykh : Please go ahead.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good. Our Shaykh, in our presence here in Kazakhstan, we have encountered mixing with young men from other Islamic groups and jurisprudential ideas that may be different. However, we have reached the conclusion that they have an idea, and I do not know its extent in the books of jurisprudence and the statements of the jurists, which is that they agree with us that the Sunnah in Ramadan and other times for the night prayer is eleven rak'ahs, naturally with the three rak'ahs of Witr. But they count the two rak'ahs of the post-prayer Sunnah of Isha as part of these eleven, or as part of these eight rak'ahs of Tarawih, as it is called. Is this correct? That is, are the eight rak'ahs of voluntary prayer after Isha counted together with these two rak'ahs of the post-prayer Sunnah of Isha? And may Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : The post-prayer Sunnah has no relation to the eleven rak'ahs, which are part of the night prayer. And these rak'ahs, along with the aforementioned post-prayer Sunnah, become thirteen rak'ahs.
The questioner : Yes, yes.
The Shaykh: Is it clear?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Is it clear?
The questioner : Clear, clear. But is this issue, I mean, researched in the books of the jurists, or not?
The Shaykh : No, no, no one says this.
The questioner : This is not said.
The Shaykh : No one says this at all.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : And beware of that.
The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah, I am well...
The questioner : Shaykh, we are calling you from... Kazakhstan.
The Shaykh: Where are you from?
The questioner : From Kazakhstan, the Islamic Republic of Kazakhstan.
The Shaykh: Welcome...
The questioner : How are you, my brother?
The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah, I am well...
The questioner : May Allah grant you good health, Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah, I am well and in good health.
The questioner : May Allah bless you, if Allah wills. How are the academic lessons, if Allah wills?
The Shaykh : Who?
The questioner : The academic lessons.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed, these books are in front of me, and I am taking the refined honey from them.
The questioner : We praise Allah; with the help of Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He), the aspirations increase and the productions increase with the help of Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He).
The Shaykh : If Allah wills ... .
The questioner : We ask Allah for that. May we proceed with some questions, Shaykh, if you have the time, if Allah wills? If you could give us five or ten minutes, perhaps, if Allah wills, that would benefit us... regarding our academic questions, knowing that... we are in a foreign land and there are few scholars here.
The Shaykh : Please go ahead.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good. Our Shaykh, in our presence here in Kazakhstan, we have encountered mixing with young men from other Islamic groups and jurisprudential ideas that may be different. However, we have reached the conclusion that they have an idea, and I do not know its extent in the books of jurisprudence and the statements of the jurists, which is that they agree with us that the Sunnah in Ramadan and other times for the night prayer is eleven rak'ahs, naturally with the three rak'ahs of Witr. But they count the two rak'ahs of the post-prayer Sunnah of Isha as part of these eleven, or as part of these eight rak'ahs of Tarawih, as it is called. Is this correct? That is, are the eight rak'ahs of voluntary prayer after Isha counted together with these two rak'ahs of the post-prayer Sunnah of Isha? And may Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : The post-prayer Sunnah has no relation to the eleven rak'ahs, which are part of the night prayer. And these rak'ahs, along with the aforementioned post-prayer Sunnah, become thirteen rak'ahs.
The questioner : Yes, yes.
The Shaykh: Is it clear?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Is it clear?
The questioner : Clear, clear. But is this issue, I mean, researched in the books of the jurists, or not?
The Shaykh : No, no, no one says this.
The questioner : This is not said.
The Shaykh : No one says this at all.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : And beware of that.
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