Tarawih Prayer Explained: Rulings, Number of Rakats, and Sunnah in Ramadan | Shaykh Salih Al-Fawzan

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📖 About This Series: This video is part of a complete English translation of the lecture series “Ramadan Gatherings – From the Rulings of Fasting” by Shaykh Dr. Salih al-Fawzan. 🌙 This series consists of legal rulings (fiqh) related to fasting and Ramadan, presented in a clear question-and-answer format. - The original lessons were broadcast on the Noble Quran Radio Station (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) and are part of a well-known Ramadan program addressing practical and frequently encountered issues related to fasting. 📝 This translation aims to faithfully convey the original scholarly content as delivered, without alteration or commentary, making these rulings accessible to English-speaking audiences. All rulings presented in this series are taken directly from the Shaykh’s original lectures as aired on Quran Radio KSA. 📌 Orginal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWNlPwf4olM&list=PL3523jgHxjkYm4d-eixCJgRqDSP1YqM76&index=5 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Question Answered in This Video: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ (00:00 - 00:53) - Intro (00:54 - 03:01) - Salat al-Tarawih 📌 Salat al-Tarawih - Salat al-Tarawih is a confirmed Sunnah in Ramadan that is performed in congregation after Isha every night of the month, as encouraged by the Prophet ﷺ. He prayed it with his Companions, then stopped out of fear that it might become obligatory, which shows that it is not mandatory but an established Sunnah agreed upon by the scholars. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ (03:02 - 07:28) - Number of Rakaat 📌 Number of Rakaat - There is no fixed number of rakahs for Salat al-Tarawih, because the Prophet ﷺ encouraged standing in Ramadan without specifying a limit. He prayed a smaller number with long recitation, while the Companions increased the number and shortened the recitation, and both practices are from the Sunnah. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 Second Question: Is tasting food while preparing it a nullifier?? (07:29 - 07:35) - First Question (07:36 - 09:26) - First Answer 📌 First Answer - It is not permissible to rush the recitation in order to complete the Quran quickly, because the Quran must be recited with calmness, clarity, and reflection as the Prophet ﷺ used to recite. The correct approach is moderation by dividing the Quran throughout the month so it is completed with proper recitation, avoiding both excessive haste and excessive length. (09:27 - 10:00) - Closing ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ Authentic and True — From the Scholars to You ✦ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #Islam #Sunnah #Ramadan #Ramadan1447 #ramadan2026 #RamadanFiqh #Fasting #Sawm #Fiqh #IslamicRulings #IslamicKnowledge #IslamicLectures #IslamicEducation #AhlusSunnah #Salafi #ScholarlyLectures #QuranRadioKSA #SaudiScholars #SalihAlFawzan #FiqhOfFasting #RamadanLessons #IslamicQnA #AuthenticAnswers #Muslim #Islamic #IslamicVideo #IslamicContent #IslamicReminder #Dawah #Quran #QuranAndSunnah #Tawheed #Shirk #aqeedah #hanbali #salafi #salafimanhaj #salafiyaah