Performing qadha salaah in place of all nawaafil salaah
Q: Please advise on qadha and nafl salaah. I have many qadha salaah to make up and have started performing my qadha salaah after every fardh salaah.
Alhamdulillah, I am also in a habit of waking for tahajud and use this opportunity to make dua and perform qadha salaah too.
I am curious about nafl salaah. Allah advises us to seek His assistance through patience and salaah. With so many outstanding qadha salaah, I feel ashamed to perform nafl salaah imploring Allah's assistance, even though I am in great need of Allah's help.
I have received conflicting advises regarding this. My brother (who is becoming an aalim- 5th year) advised that I should use the hours of tahajud to perform nafl salaah. An aalima that I'm close to, advised that I should payback my qadha as a matter of priority.
What I have been doing since, is using the opportunities where one might perform nafl salaah to perform qadha salaah, for example tahajud, salaatud Duha. And for instance, instead of performing salaatul Hajaat, I'd perform qadha salaah and make the dua of Salaatul Hajaat.
A: In place of all nawaafil, you should perform your qadha salaah. At the time of tahajjud, chaasht, awwaabeen, etc, you may perform two or four rakaats, and thereafter in the remaining time you should perform your qadha salaah.
And Allah Ta'ala (الله تعالى) knows best.
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