How should a person, who has qazaa Namaaz for 10, 12 or 14 years etc, fulfil his namaaz?
Question: What is the ruling of the Ulama-e-Deen and the Learned Muftis in the following case: How should a person, who has qazaa Namaaz for ten, twelve or fourteen years etc, fulfil his Namaaz? Please explain the simplest way for him to make these qazaah Salaahs? Also explain the Niyyah that one needs to make? Also, will one have to read Qazaa for Witr Namaaz? Please answer in a simple manner.
The Answer: The Qazaa Namaaz for one day is twenty Rakaats. In other words, 2 Fard of Fajr; Four Fard of Zuhr; Four Fard of Asr; Three Fard of Maghrib; Four Fard of Esha and Three Witr. To say the following as Niyyah (intention) is sufficient: ‘I make intention to fulfil the first Fajr which I have made qazaa or the first Zuhr that I made Qazaa and I have not as yet fulfilled.’ The same kind of Niyyah should be made for every Qazaa Namaaz.
As for that person who has too many Namaaz to make Qazaa, then he may read his Qazaa in the following manner as it is permissible to do this (for Qazaa Namaaz) so that it may be finished swiftly.
Instead of reading Subhaana Rabbiyal Azeem three times in Ruku and Subhaana Rabbiyal A’laa three times in Sajdah, he can read it once each. An important point to note is that in every Namaaz that one reads, one must start the Seen of Subhaan on entering Ruku and on ending with the meem of Azeem one should come up from Ruku. The same applies to Sajdah.
Another way of shortening the Qazaa Namaaz for those who have too many Qazaa, is in the third and fourth rakaats of the fard Salaahs, one may say Subhaanallah three times and go into Ruku instead of reading the entire Surah Fateha. This can however not be done in Qazaa of Witr. In the Qazaa of witr one must read the Surah Fateha and Surah in all three rakaats.
The third way of shortening the Qazaa Namaaz for those who have too may Qazaa, is that one may after the last Atahiyat (in the last rakaats) just read Allahum’ma Salle Alaa Muhammadiw Wa Aalihi instead of the entire Duroode-Ebrahim and the Dua and then turn salaam.
The fourth way of shortening the Qazaa Namaaz for those who have too many Qazaa, is to read once or thrice Allahum’ma Rab’bigh Firli after the Takbeer in the Third Rakaat in place of Dua-e-Qunoot in witr