Re: ~ Namaaz
**i think what he is trying to say is that if you have missed namaaz in the past, one of the ways Allah might forgive you if you had a treasure of nawaafil. we call it “qazaa-e-umrii” which is, in fact, nawaafil namaaz. a lot of muslims do that.
i do myself…i pray extra nawaafil equivalent to the farz namaaz with each namaaz time … like i offer extra 2 rak’at for fajr at fajr time, an extra 4 rak’ats at zohr time, 4 rak’ats at asr, 3 rak’ats at maGhrib and 4 rak’ats at ishaa namaaz time in leu of/to compensate the prayers i’ve missed in my life. it’s NOT a sure thing but we may hope that Allah, out of His Mercy and Kindness, may accept my nawaafil for missed farz namaazeN…aameen**