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These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. If a person does not know the dua-e-qunoot, he should recite the following dua: …. He will still have to recite it in the third rakaat and also make the forgetfulness prostration.ħ. If a person forgetfully reads dua-e-qunoot in the first or second rakaat, this is not considered. In any case, it will still be wajib on him to make the forgetfulness prostration.Ħ. If a person reads the dua-e-qunoot after standing up from ruku, even then his prayer will be valid, but it is preferable not to do so. Instead, he should make the forgetfulness prostration at the end of his prayer. If a person forgets to recite dua-e-qunoot in the third rakaat, and remembers it when he goes into ruku, he should not recite it now.

After the Surah Faatihah, another Surah should also be recited in all the three rakaats of witr prayer as has been mentioned above.ĥ. Thereafter, he should go into ruku, complete the third rakaat, sit down for at-tahiyyaat, durood, and a dua and then make the salaam.Ĥ. The hands should be clasped again, and thereafter, the dua-e-qunoot should be recited. Thereafter, one should say Allahu Akbar and raise one’s hands upto one’s ears (and upto the shoulders if it is a woman).

One should then read the Surah Faatihah and another Surah. Instead, one should immediately stand up after the at-tahiyyaat. After offering two rakaats, one should sit down and read the at-tahiyyaat. If a wajib is missed out, one should make qada of it as soon as possible.Ģ. The status of wajib is very close to that of fard. It says in Heavenly Ornaments (Imam Ashraf Ali Tahanawi:ġ. If you read it from a book, it will invalidate your prayer, so don’t do it. The place for the qunut dua in witr is before the ruku in the Hanafi school. But until you do, you can recite any other dua.
