Is it permissible to perform the night prayer after the witr prayer?
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The questioner: After the witr in the night prayer, my Shaykh?
The Shaykh: No.
The questioner: Even if, he doesn't stay awake, I mean.
The Shaykh: There are only two rak'ahs, that's all.
The questioner : But.
The Shaykh: Only two rak'ahs.
The questioner: Yes, if he wants to stand for the night prayer, he does not pray anything but the night prayer, then he prays witr.
The Shaykh: He did not pray.
The questioner: Now we have prayed the witr here.
The Shaykh: This is the night prayer, my brother.
The questioner: This is all.
The Shaykh : But.
The questioner: Yes, because there they call for the mosque, saying that at two o'clock it is the night prayer.
The Shaykh: The night prayer is one standing.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh: Whether you call it the night prayer, or tahajjud, or the tarawih prayer in Ramadan, it is all the same.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) in his entire life did not pray more than eleven rak'ahs. In his blessed life, he lived sixty-three years and did not pray more than eleven rak'ahs. Are we more mindful of Allah than he was?
The questioner : No, by Allah.
The Shaykh: No, but these eleven that we pray, the longer we make them, the closer we get to the prayer of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him).
The questioner : (peace and blessings be upon him).
The Shaykh: And the mistake of Muslims today is that they look at the quantity rather than the quality. What is the quantity? It means the number of rak'ahs. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) prayed eleven. Is there any objection to us praying twenty-three? That is what they say.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh: Well, why did you take the number and not the quality?
The questioner : Glory be to Allah.
The Shaykh: I understood you.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: They were, in the time of 'Umar (may Allah be pleased with them), when they finished the night prayer in Ramadan of eleven rak'ahs, they would go to the house and hurry the servants so they would prepare the suhur for them, because the dawn was about to break. And they would lean on their sticks. And what about us? We pray twenty rak'ahs. Pray eleven in one hour, that is better for you.
The questioner : May Allah bless you.
The Shaykh: Do you want better? Pray eleven in two hours. Do you want better? In three hours. Who are these people? Where are these people?
The questioner : May Allah reward you.
The Shaykh: No.
The questioner: Even if, he doesn't stay awake, I mean.
The Shaykh: There are only two rak'ahs, that's all.
The questioner : But.
The Shaykh: Only two rak'ahs.
The questioner: Yes, if he wants to stand for the night prayer, he does not pray anything but the night prayer, then he prays witr.
The Shaykh: He did not pray.
The questioner: Now we have prayed the witr here.
The Shaykh: This is the night prayer, my brother.
The questioner: This is all.
The Shaykh : But.
The questioner: Yes, because there they call for the mosque, saying that at two o'clock it is the night prayer.
The Shaykh: The night prayer is one standing.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh: Whether you call it the night prayer, or tahajjud, or the tarawih prayer in Ramadan, it is all the same.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) in his entire life did not pray more than eleven rak'ahs. In his blessed life, he lived sixty-three years and did not pray more than eleven rak'ahs. Are we more mindful of Allah than he was?
The questioner : No, by Allah.
The Shaykh: No, but these eleven that we pray, the longer we make them, the closer we get to the prayer of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him).
The questioner : (peace and blessings be upon him).
The Shaykh: And the mistake of Muslims today is that they look at the quantity rather than the quality. What is the quantity? It means the number of rak'ahs. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) prayed eleven. Is there any objection to us praying twenty-three? That is what they say.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh: Well, why did you take the number and not the quality?
The questioner : Glory be to Allah.
The Shaykh: I understood you.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: They were, in the time of 'Umar (may Allah be pleased with them), when they finished the night prayer in Ramadan of eleven rak'ahs, they would go to the house and hurry the servants so they would prepare the suhur for them, because the dawn was about to break. And they would lean on their sticks. And what about us? We pray twenty rak'ahs. Pray eleven in one hour, that is better for you.
The questioner : May Allah bless you.
The Shaykh: Do you want better? Pray eleven in two hours. Do you want better? In three hours. Who are these people? Where are these people?
The questioner : May Allah reward you.
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