How to pray for girls and women — video

How to pray, for girls and women. The Hanafi way, with the two rak'ahs of Fajr as an example.

Step one: the intention. Stand facing the qibla, and make the intention in your heart for the prayer you are about to pray.

Step two: the opening takbir. Raise both hands up to your shoulders, and say the takbir.

Step three: place your hands on your chest, the right hand over the left.

Step four: quietly recite the Thana, shown on the screen.

Step five: quietly seek refuge with Allah, and say the Bismillah.

Step six: recite Surah Al-Fatiha, then say Ameen quietly. Behind an imam, stay silent and listen.

Step seven: after Al-Fatiha, recite a surah or a few verses, for example Surah Al-Ikhlas.

Step eight: ruku. Say the takbir, and bow until your hands reach your knees, keeping your arms close to your body. Then say the tasbih of ruku three times.

Step nine: stand up straight again, and say the words shown on the screen.

Step ten: sajdah. Say the takbir, and go down into sajdah: forehead and nose, both palms, both knees and the toes on the ground. Girls and women keep their arms close to the body. Then say the tasbih three times.

Step eleven: say the takbir, and sit calmly for a moment. Then say the takbir again, and make the second sajdah in the same way.

Step twelve: stand up for the second rak'ah, and pray it just like the first one, without the Thana.

Step thirteen: after two rak'ahs, sit with both feet out to the right, and recite the Tashahhud. Raise your right index finger at the words shown on the screen, then lower it.

Step fourteen: in a prayer of three or four rak'ahs, you would stand up here, and recite only Al-Fatiha in the remaining rak'ahs. Fajr has two, so we continue.

Step fifteen: in the last sitting, recite the Tashahhud, then the Durood Ibrahim, and then a dua.

Step sixteen: turn your face to the right, and say the salam. Then turn to the left, and say it again.

Step seventeen: after the prayer, seek forgiveness three times, then recite the tasbih.

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