{"id":5895,"date":"2025-10-30T02:38:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T02:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=5895"},"modified":"2025-10-30T02:38:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T02:38:51","slug":"reciting-out-loud-in-the-sunnah-or-nafl-prayers-allowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=5895","title":{"rendered":"Reciting out Loud in the Sunnah or Nafl Prayers: Allowed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">Reciting out Loud in the Sunnah or <em>Nafl<\/em> Prayers<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">Question:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">What is the ruling of reciting out loud or silently in the <em>Sunnah<\/em> (<em>nafl<\/em>) prayers?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003300\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">Answer:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">In the name of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/category\/islamic-creed\/almighty-allah\/\">Allah<\/a>, we praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">It is preferred to recite quietly if the <em>nafl<\/em> prayer is offered by day, following the ruling on the daytime prayers. He has the choice between reciting out loud or silently in the night prayers, if he is praying alone, but reciting out loud is better, provided that it does not disturb others. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">In case one is leading others in the <em>nafl<\/em> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prayerinislam.com\/fatwas-rulings\/what-is-the-minimum-for-the-witr-prayer\/\"><em>witr<\/em><\/a> prayer, then the imam (leader of prayer) should recite out loud so that those who are praying behind him can hear him. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">For more details, watch this interesting talk with Sheikh Ibrahim Zidan.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"width: 0px;overflow: hidden;line-height: 0\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/p>\n<p>______________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Huda Youtube Channel.<\/em><a href='https:\/\/prayerinislam.com\/reciting-out-loud-in-the-sunnah-or-nafl-prayers-allowed\/' target='_blank'>Soucre Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the ruling of reciting out loud or silently in the nafl prayers?\u00a0Watch this short talk to get the answer with Sheikh Ibrahim Zidan. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1799,1563],"tags":[5226,1841,5227,1824,5218,374,5228,2382,2165,1052,1575,183,5229,5230,5231,5232,5233,5234,1576,1577],"class_list":["post-5895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fatwas-rulings","category-prayer-in-islam","tag-how-to-make-namaz","tag-how-to-make-salah","tag-how-to-pray-sunnah-prayers","tag-huda-channel","tag-ibrahim-zidan","tag-muhammad-salah","tag-muslim-prayers","tag-muslims-how-to-pray","tag-nafl-namaz","tag-prayer","tag-prayer-in-islam","tag-prophet-muhammad","tag-reciting-loud-in-prayers","tag-reciting-out-loud-in-nafl-prayer","tag-reciting-out-loud-in-nafl-salah","tag-reciting-out-loud-in-sunnah-namaz","tag-reciting-out-loud-in-voluntary-prayers","tag-reciting-out-loud-or-silently-in-nafl-prayers","tag-salah","tag-salat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Reciting-out-Loud-in-the-Sunnah-or-Nafl-Prayers.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5895","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=5895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}