{"id":6835,"date":"2025-11-12T01:37:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T01:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=6835"},"modified":"2025-11-12T01:37:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T01:37:39","slug":"is-offering-tarawih-in-congregation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=6835","title":{"rendered":"Is Offering Tarawih in Congregation Bidah?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">Offering Tarawih in Congregation<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">Some people claim that performing <i>Tarawih<\/i> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prayerinislam.com\/guide-to-prayer\/tarawih-prayer-excellence-virtues\/\">Night Prayer in Ramadan<\/a>) in congregation is <i>bid`ah<\/i> (innovation) as it was first offered during the era of `Umar (may Allah be pleased with him). However, this claim is refutable because it is authentically established that<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/category\/prophet-muhammad\/\"> the Prophet <\/a>(peace be upon him) was the first to perform <i>Tarawih<\/i> in congregation but he did not continue it out of fear that it will be made obligatory upon people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">When that fear was over, `Umar revived it and asked people to offer it in congregation, and thus fulfilling the desire of the Prophet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">Follow us on this interesting talk with Milk Sheikh to know more about this misconception and the definition of <i>bid`ah<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"width: 0px;overflow: hidden;line-height: 0\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/p>\n<a href='https:\/\/prayerinislam.com\/is-offering-tarawih-in-congregation\/' target='_blank'>Soucre Link<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is meant by bid`ah? How could you refute the misconception about Tarawih prayer? Did `Umar use the word bid`ah in its linguistic sense or in a religious sense? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1799,1563],"tags":[5634,1373,5635,1376,9,4959,5636,5637,1569,4726,5638,1850,1052,1575,1990,831,2159,1852,1576,1577,2760,2801,4985,833,5639,2805],"class_list":["post-6835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fatwas-rulings","category-prayer-in-islam","tag-umar","tag-acts-of-worship","tag-bidah","tag-fasting","tag-featured","tag-following-the-sunnah-of-the-prophet","tag-good-innovation","tag-ho-muslims-pray","tag-how-to-pray","tag-innovation","tag-milk-shaykh","tag-namaz","tag-prayer","tag-prayer-in-islam","tag-prophets-prayer","tag-ramadan","tag-ramadan-nightly-prayer","tag-rulings-of-prayer","tag-salah","tag-salat","tag-taraweeh","tag-taraweeh-at-home","tag-tarawih-in-congregation","tag-tarawih-prayer","tag-tarawih-salat","tag-worship-in-ramadan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tarawih4.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6835","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=6835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}