What to do when you miss a salah

1. 1
   Make it up as soon as you can

   A missed fard prayer stays a debt until it is made up. Pray it as soon as you remember or wake up.

2. 2
   Avoid the three disliked times

   Do not pray at sunrise, when the sun is at its highest (zawal) or at sunset. In the Hanafi school you can make up qada after Fajr and after Asr, as long as it is not one of those three times.

3. 3
   Pray only the fard (and Witr)

   Make up the fard rak'ahs of the missed prayer and the Witr. Sunnah prayers are not made up, except the two sunnah of Fajr when made up with the Fajr fard on the same day before midday.

4. 4
   Keep the order if you missed only a few

   If you have fewer than six missed prayers, pray them in order and before the current prayer, unless the current prayer's time is about to end.

5. 5
   Make a clear intention

   Intend the specific prayer, for example "the Zuhr I missed today". For many missed prayers, intend "the first Zuhr I missed" (or the last) each time.

6. 6
   Many years missed? Make a plan

   Estimate how many prayers you missed and work through them steadily, for example one qada with each daily prayer. Repent sincerely; making up the prayers is part of that repentance.

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