{"id":1997,"date":"2025-09-28T07:37:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T07:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2025-09-28T07:37:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T07:37:25","slug":"how-to-perform-the-eid-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=1997","title":{"rendered":"How to Perform the `Eid Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">The `Eid Prayer consists of two <i>rak`ahs <\/i>(units of the Prayer). In the first <i>rak`ah<\/i>, one makes <i>Takbir<\/i> (saying Allahu Akbar [i.e. Allah is the Greatest]) seven times other than the opening <i>Takbir<\/i>. In the second rak`ah, one makes <i>Takbir<\/i> five times other than the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prayerinislam.com\/why-we-pray\/from-one-state-to-another\/\"><i>Takbir<\/i><\/a> of standing<i>.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: \u201cThere are seven <i>Takbirs<\/i> in the first <i>rak`ah<\/i> and five <i>Takbirs<\/i> in the second <i>rak`ah<\/i> of the prayer offered on the day of the breaking the fast and then recitation of the Qur\u2019an after the opening <i>Takbirs<\/i>.\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/featured\/abu-dawud-the-faqih-and-scholar-of-hadith\/\">Abu Dawud<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">What are the etiquettes of `Eid Prayer? What is the Prophet\u2019s guidance in performing `Eid Prayer?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">Follow us on this interesting talk with Dr. Zakir Naik to find the answers to these questions and know more details about the etiquettes of the `Eid<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">Prayer.<\/span><\/p>\n<a href='https:\/\/prayerinislam.com\/how-to-perform-the-eid-prayer\/' target='_blank'>Soucre Link<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the number of rak`ahs and takbirs of the `Eid Prayer? What should be done if `Eid comes on Friday?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1982,1563],"tags":[2098,2099,2100,2101,2102,2103,2104,558,2105,2106,2107,2108,2109,2110,2111,2112,9,2113,2114,2115,2116,2117,1575,1990,2118,2119,1576,1577,2120,2121],"class_list":["post-1997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guide-to-prayer","category-prayer-in-islam","tag-eid","tag-eid-al-fitr","tag-eid-prayer","tag-al-adha","tag-arafah","tag-arafat","tag-conditions-of-eid-prayer","tag-dr-zakir-naik","tag-eid-aldha","tag-eid-namaz","tag-eid-salah","tag-eid-salat","tag-eid1440","tag-eid2018","tag-eid2019","tag-etiquettes-of-eid","tag-featured","tag-friday-and-eid-in-the-same-day","tag-how-muslims-prayer","tag-how-to-perform-eid-prayer","tag-how-to-pray-eid","tag-khutbah-of-eid","tag-prayer-in-islam","tag-prophets-prayer","tag-rakahs-of-eid-prayer","tag-rulings-of-eid-prayer","tag-salah","tag-salat","tag-takbirs-during-the-eid","tag-time-for-eid-prayer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/eid.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}