Salat - Announcing Intent to Pray before praying it

**animehunter123** · 11-20-2013

ASA,

I was on
wikihowcom/Perform-the-Tahajjud-Prayer

I noticed near the end of the page it said:
"The site of this intention is the heart. By simply deciding in his heart to do this action, a person has made his intention. Hence it is not prescribed to speak the intention out loud when one wants to do the action. Rather speaking the intention out loud is a kind of innovation that was not narrated in the Book of Allaah or in the Sunnah of His Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), nor was it narrated from any of his Sahaabah (may Allaah be pleased with them all). See al-Sharh al-Mumti’, 2/283."

Does this mean announing your "Nayat" before Salat Tahajjud is wrong?? What about for other salat, like salat al duhr?

For example when I pray i say:

1. raise my hands
2. say: allahuma rabi hatha al da3wa salati qa'iman ati saidina mohammed al wasila wa salatin rafiaa wa darajatan aliya rafii3a wa makaman wa mahmoodan alaty tukhlif al muad
3. say: nawayt a sali salat al tahajjud (or duhr or asr etc...)
4. say: allahu akbar and begin the salah

For step number 2 and 3... is that ok? I say it out loud, but is that haram or wrong??

**Ahmad H** · 11-20-2013

Tahajjud is a Nafl prayer. It is not a prescribed prayer. Thus, perform Tahajjud as you would perform any other Nafl you do.

And who wrote that book which you quoted? I have never heard of Niyyat being disallowed for any prayers before now.

**ardianto** · 11-21-2013

Originally Posted by animehunter123

For example when I pray i say:

1. raise my hands
2. say: allahuma rabi hatha al da3wa salati qa'iman ati saidina mohammed al wasila wa salatin rafiaa wa darajatan aliya rafii3a wa makaman wa mahmoodan alaty tukhlif al muad
3. say: nawayt a sali salat al tahajjud (or duhr or asr etc...)
4. say: allahu akbar and begin the salah

For step number 2 and 3... is that ok? I say it out loud, but is that haram or wrong??

Say your niyat in whisper or only in your heart, not out loud like when you talk to someone who stand two meters from you.

**animehunter123** · 11-21-2013

Thank you for your response. The wikihow website had those sentences (the beginning not in red), so I was confused by the english.

ok i will whisper or say it inside. Thnk yous o much