prayer books

[Marina-Aisha]

i found this book on amazon(http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0...F8&me=&seller=) i was wondering if anyone had read it if they know if its any good and also if anyone could recommend any aswell as i want to learn how to pray..

[syed1]

Hello sister, for understanding islam and also learning how to pray I used this book it is called: OUR LIFE IN THE LIGHT OF ISLAM Compiled by mohammed Shahid Siddiqi , translated by Hafiz Abdullah Ahmed and Transliteration by Dr.Rubina Siddiqi Ismail

I could not find this book on amazon but here is a picture of it..I found this book very useful and hopefully you will tooAttachment 4461Attachment 4462

If you cannot find this anywhere and you really want it, I wouldn't mind putting it up for sale on my amazon account or even ship it to you for free to help you out.

[Insaanah]

Peace Marina,

i found this book on amazon(http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0...F8&me=&seller=) i was wondering if anyone had read it if they know if its any good and also if anyone could recommend any aswell as i want to learn how to pray..

I wouldn't recommend you get that one. I'll see if I can find a good book, and will try and post info here inshaa'Allah.

Others may have good youtube video etc that they know of, so you can see it in action, replay the videos etc.

[serena77]

i have been using videos on youtube to help me.... and the first one in the series is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kuk6HgOH9yQ&feature=related

maybe this will help. if this is not an accurate set of prayers i hope someone will say, i've really learned a lot from it and would hate to find out they were incorrect.
Serena

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[Darth Ultor]

There are Muslim prayer books? I thought in Islam you have Salat which is just one prayer and then D'uas that you say yourself in your own words.

[syed1]

There are Muslim prayer books? I thought in Islam you have Salat which is just one prayer and then D'uas that you say yourself in your own words.

yes, what the sister is asking for is a prayer guide which is in the from of a book..It teaches one how to pray, the proper formations, the proper things to recite etc.

Also, Salat is just not one prayer, there are different types of prayer, for example fard (compulsory) sunnat, nawafil, witr etc. in each one there might be a slight difference of what is recited or what actions are performed.

[Darth Ultor]

Oh, I thought the words and movements were the same in all the fard prayers. Just the number of rakas were different.

[Ramadhan]

i found this book on amazon(http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0...F8&me=&seller=) i was wondering if anyone had read it if they know if its any good and also if anyone could recommend any aswell as i want to learn how to pray..

I don't recommend that book.
This is a good site to cover the basics:
http://islam1.org/how_to_pray/index.htm

Oh, I thought the words and movements were the same in all the fard prayers. Just the number of rakas were different.

It is true that the movements are the same and that the rakaats are different between fard shalahs.
I think the sister wants to learn the basics (how to perform maghrib shalah, for example), and want to make sure that she recites al fatiha correctly with meanings, and other surahs or how to say "Subhāna Rabbi-yal A’la Wa Bi-Hamdih" (Glory be to my Great Sustainer, Most High, and I praise Him) during prostration correctly and its meaning.

I feel youtube is also an additional great source for learning shalah, especially in learning about movements and pronunciations, like this one for example:

[Marina-Aisha]

i just wanted something to read on the go really so i can read on my ipod,is there any ebooks i could download? thank you everyone for all your help, the website is veryhelpful. this youtube video is helpful but it doesnt say the words very clearly for me, i not the best at learning in the world i always find things hard to learn things and very slowly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kuk6H...eature=related but thank you for ur help.ive been watching these videos on youtube they say them slowly

[serena77]

sister,
i started out with that one too, and i still go back to it at times to help w/ my pronunciation then go back and forth between the one i posted and the one from post 8.
may Allah (swt) make this easy for you.
Serena

[Marina-Aisha]

sister,
i started out with that one too, and i still go back to it at times to help w/ my pronunciation then go back and forth between the one i posted and the one from post 8.
may Allah (swt) make this easy for you.
Serena

ooooh okay thanks maybe ill do that also :)

[Insaanah]

i have been using videos on youtube to help me.... and the first one in the series is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kuk6H...eature=related

maybe this will help. if this is not an accurate set of prayers i hope someone will say, i've really learned a lot from it and would hate to find out they were incorrect.

Serena, I watched that and it seemed fine to me. I felt that the video could have explained that for the Fajr prayer, you need to repeat what's in the video (two lots of standing with prostrations in between, followed by one sitting and turning your head in salaam) once again, i.e. do it twice in total, to complete the Fajr prayer. It'd be nice if it had a transliteration as well, i.e the Arabic pronounciation written out in English text.

I was going to give a link to a site for new Muslims that teaches ablution and prayer (two forms, one temporary and simplified, while you learn the proper form), and it had transliteration, videos etc, that I thought you and Marina might find helpful - it was working last night, and I've linked to it in the past, but it seems to not be working today. I'm hoping it's just a temporary issue, so will put the links here anyway in case they do work in the near future:

The main home page is: www.muslimconverts.com
The prayer page is this: http://www.muslimconverts.com/prayer/index.htm
Beginners prayer guide (the simplified temporary form til you can learn the proper form) here: http://www.muslimconverts.com/prayer...ers_prayer.htm
Full instructions for the Fajr prayer here: http://www.muslimconverts.com/prayer...-newmuslim.htm

It might be worth keeping checking back, in case they do start working. And if I find anything a bit more useful, will post it inshaa'Allah.

Peace.

[serena77]

salaam
thank you so much for the links ... i'll check them off and on too wonder why they suspended the page....
serena

[Darth Ultor]

A little off topic but to all D'uas start with "Bismillah i rahmah i rahim, alhamduliLlah rabiyal alamin"?