Steps of offering Maghrib Namaz / Salat

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Maghrib is the fourth namaz prayed by the Muslims after sunset. The timings of Maghrib are different in every area and country.

Parts of Maghrib namaz:

There are three parts of Maghrib prayer namely: three rikaat farz, two rikaat sunnat and two rikaat nafl.

Steps of offering salat e Maghrib:

Following are the steps involved in three parts of salat e Maghrib but before them wuzu is performed.

1. Steps in three rikaat farz:

• Neeyat is the first step of three rikaat farz of Maghrib namaz. We state our neeyat (intention) that we are going to pray the salat-e-Maghrib. In the neeyat we say, “I intend to perform three rikaat farz for Allah at time of Maghrib with my face towards Khana Kabah,” and then we raise hands in a manner in the image present in this blog and say, “Allahu Akbar.”
• After neeyat, first rikaat of three rikaat farz is offered. In first rikaat after neeyat, while folding hands on chest, we recite Subhanaka then taaooz, then tasmeeh and then Surat ul Fatiha. After Surah e Fatiha, we recite a surat of Quran. Usually, we recite Surah e Ikhlas or any surah from the last ten surats of Quran. After reciting Surah e Ikhlas, Takbir is said again. We go in Ruku and recite, “Subhana Rabbiyal Azeem” three times calmly. After that we return to the standing position and recite, “Sami Allahu Liman hamida rabbana lakal hamd.” After that, we again say Allahu Akbar in the same standing position. We go to prostration (sajdah) and recite, “Subhana Rabbiyal Ala” After sajdah we rise, sit and say, “Allahu Akbar.”  And we again go in sajdah and say “Subhana Rabbiyal Ala” thrice and rise, sit and say, “Allahu Akbar” again. Here first rikaat of Maghrib prayer gets over.
• At completion of first rikaat, we stand up again for second rikaat and recite Surah e Fatiha with Surah ikhlas in the same standing position while folding the hands on chest. Same steps of saying Takbir, performing ruku, two sajdahs and other steps included in first rikaat are performed in second rikaat. After second sajdah in second rikaat, while sitting in the position shown below in an image, we recite At-tahiyyat then tashahhud with first finger of right hand raised. Then we lower down the finger after reciting tashahhud till “muhammadan” and continue the recitation of remaining part of tashahhud. At the completion of tashahhud the second rikaat of three rikaat farz of Maghrib prayer is finished.
• Then we stand up again for third rikaat and recite Surah e Fatiha and say “Allahu Akbar” after it. Then same steps of going in ruku, standing back then going again in sajdas as we did in the last rikaat are performed. After second sajdah, we again sit, recite Allahu Akbar then At-tahiyyat then tashahhud with first finger of right hand raised. We then lower down the finger after reciting tashahhud till “muhammadan” and continue the recitation of the remaining part of tashahhud. Then we recite darood shareef and Rabbana or Rabb-e-ja’alni.
• After reciting Rabbana or Rabb-e-ja’alni we turn our face towards right side or right shoulder and say, “As Salaam-u alaikum wa rahmatullahe wabarakatu.” Then we turn our face towards left side and say again, “As Salaam-u alaikum wa rahmatullahe wabarakatu.” This is called salam and three rikaat farz of Maghrib namaz is finished here.

2. Steps in two rikaat sunnat:

• With Neeyat, we start two rikaat sunnat for Maghrib namaz as well. After neeyat, first rikaat of two rikaat sunnat is offered. In first rikaat after neeyat, while folding hands on chest, we recite Subhanaka then taaooz, then tasmeeh and then Surat ul Fatiha. After Surah e Fatiha, we recite a surat of Quran. Usually, we recite Surah e Ikhlas. After reciting Surah e Ikhlas, Takbir is said again. We go in Ruku and recite, “Subhana Rabbiyal Azeem” thrice calmly. We return to the standing position and recite, “Sami Allahu Liman hamida rabbana lakal hamd.” After that, we again say Allahu Akbar in the same standing position. After That we go to prostration (sajdah) and recite, “Subhana Rabbiyal Ala” After sajdah we rise, sit and say, “Allahu Akbar.” Then we again go in sajdah and say “Subhana Rabbiyal Ala” thrice and rise, sit and say, “Allahu Akbar” again. Here first rikaat of two rikaat sunnat is over.
• Then we stand up again for second rikaat and same steps of first rikaat of two rikaat sunnat till second sajdah are performed. After second sajdah, we again sit, recite Allahu Akbar then At-tahiyyat then tashahhud with first finger of right hand raised. We then lower down the finger after reciting tashahhud till “muhammadan” and continue the recitation of the remaining part of tashahhud. Then we recite darood shareef and Rabbana or Rabb-e-ja’alni. After reciting Rabbana or Rabb-e-ja’alni, salam is performed the same way it was performed in three rikaat farz and two rikaat sunnat of Maghrib namaz is finished here.

3. Steps in two rikaat nafl:

• The two rikaat nafl is offered the same way as two rikaat sunnat.

Note that neeyat changes in all three steps. There is neeyat for every step and for every step you have to take the neeyat from first step and replace “three rikaat farz” with for example two rikaat sunnat if you’re offering two rikaat sunnat and two rikaat nafl if you are performing two rikaat nafl.

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