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Occasionally omitting the sunnah ghair muakkadah before Asr and Esha Salaah

· 23 Rabiʻ II 1446 AH1 min readEnglish

Question

We know it is sunnah to read 4 rakaat salaah before the Asr and Esha Salaah. Will it also be sunnah to purposely leave out these sunnah salaah SOMETIMES, as it is Sunnah Ghair Muakkada.

Ezample, a person reads the 4 sunnah of Asr on Monday and purposely leaves it out on Tuesday and reads it again on Wednesday. Will this be regarded as a sunnah?

Answer

It will be more virtuous to continue. The hadeeth says that the best action is that which is done with consistency.

And Allah Ta'ala (الله تعالى) knows best.

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Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Isipingo Beach)
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