Re: Crushing Debt and Payment Plans - Salat ul-Qada
Peace JeevayPakistan
This is true … so people properly understand … When it is said “There is no Qada for missed prayer” this means "There is nothing that we can do that will ‘compensate’ sufficiently for a missed prayer … but the making up of a missed prayer is in hadith and an instruction of RasoolAllah (SAW) … to offer prayers that were forgotten to be offered at the time they were meant to have been offered … here it is understood that “forget” does not necessitate unintentional but also includes intentional unlike in English.
What we should do is "make up the missed prayers, and then do many good deeds, try not to miss prayers and then trust in Ghafoor-ur-Raheem.
The initial idea given by Ibn Hazm that “there is no qada for salat” is misunderstood by some people … it doesn’t mean that “we should not attempt to offer missed salat through qada”, but it means “that we should not consider qada prayer equal to the prayer given on time” - hence he was encouraging us “not” to miss prayer at all and not to rely on the qada as a get out clause. Probably because he realised that many people would make the intention to offer qada prayers in later life, or practice a routine for qada prayers without trying to pray on time.
Salat-ul-Qada Al-Umri is an issue of Ijma - which is the third level of authority over of the Ahl-us-Sunnah and if we have any doubt we should always refer to the aqeedah element in At-Tahawiyya
One should not have too much fear of Allah (SWT) that we despair and one should not be too content with the Mercy of Allah (SWT) that we become lazy from offering good works and improving ourselves or prejudging the verdict that is the Right of Allah (SWT).