Re: Making Up Salat
Again from www.sunnipath.com by Faraz Rabbani:
The issues mentioned from Imam Ahmad Raza Brelvi’s fatwa: [Allah have mercy on him]
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One can miss Surah Fatiha in the last two rakats of a four-cycle prayer and in the last rakah of the maghrib prayer, and read Subhan Allah three times in the qiyam position instead.
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Instead of reading the tasbihs three times in ruku and sujud, read them only once.
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At the end of the prayer, instead of reading the full durood sharif, one can just read “Allahumma salli ala Muhammadin wa alaa alayhi” and do the salaam.
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In the witr prayer, instead of reading dua-e-qunoot, one can read “rabbighfirli” again three times.
It appears from how scholars deal with makeups that there are two approaches
(a) to finish them as soon as possible, taking all valid shortcuts, even if it means leaving sunna acts within;
(b) to pray them quickly, but without haste and without leaving any confirmed sunnas.
Approach (b) rests on the idea that the makeup prayer (qada’) is obligatory by that which the current performance (ada’) was obligatory, the only difference being that it was delayed (generally sinfully) beyond its appointed time. As such, the makeup too is due for acceptance or rejection from Allah, and should therefore be performed in a way pleasing to him, though quickly, in order to clear one’s debts.
Shaykh Adib al-Kallas [daamat barakaatuhu] emphasized that if one repents from one’s non-performance or invalid performance, and then has a strong resolve, and a systematic, consistent makeup schedule one sticks to, then even if one dies, Allah will forgive one for any remaining makeups. [This is different from one who does not resolve to do this, or does not consistently make up their prayers.] There is a difference between the rights of Allah and the rights of His creation, for Allah is free of all need, while the latter are needy. As such, Allah has promised to forgive a truly repentant slave, whereas we have no such assurances about that which is due to others.