# Introduction: why learn the Maliki salah, rak'ah counts and naturalness

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bin9uqpopma/s/1/
- Date: 2017-04-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: How to Pray Salah According to the Maliki Madhhab- Mufti Abu Layth (0:16–2:51)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiN9UQPOpMA&t=16s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bin9uqpopma/

**Topics:** Prayer; The Maliki school

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** The video teaches the Maliki way of praying; the key theme to keep in mind is naturalness throughout the prayer.

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth introduces an instructional video on performing salah according to the school of Madinah, made because many people interested in the Maliki school first ask how to pray. He lists the obligatory rak'ahs of the five prayers, noting that the Malikis call the morning prayer Subh, and asks viewers to keep in mind one key theme of the school of Madinah throughout: a naturalness in the prayer. He then introduces the person who will perform the prayer for the demonstration.

## Sources and names cited

- rak'ah

## Transcript (machine tier, 0:16–2:51)

[0:16] wasan people I'd like to today inshallah share with you an instructional video on how to perform the Salah in accordance with the school of Medina okay now before we get into that I just want to highlight why are we doing this well quite a few people have expressed an interest in wanting to learn the Malik and one of the first things that comes to their mind is okay so you know I want to study this how do I pray and as they say in Arabic that rather than just speaking of

[0:54] it let's exemplify show it by example before we get into the actual actions of Sal let's just get some basic points out the way the prayers the five daily prayers consist of okay the singular ra or a unit now in today's instructional video we'll only be going through uh the key actions just for your information and I'm sure many of you are already aware of this the units of prayer the ra as they consist in the salaat in the prayers are the the subah the morning prayer has two we

[1:33] generally refer to it as subah I know uh many people do refer to it as f as well within the Maliki school they call it and they call theah before it the afternoon prayer has four ra uh these are the obligatory r of each prayer the late afternoon prayer has four three and has four now having covered that I'd like us to also understand that one of the key themes I would like you to keep in mind

[2:13] right throughout this video and generally whilst you will be praying your Salah is that with the school of Medina are there is a huge emphasis on keeping a naturalness right throughout the prayer now you'll see what I mean as we go through this video but just keep that in mind okay a naturalness folks right so let's move on to the Salah in order to perform and enact for us yep that's not a Jin just in case you're wondering that's a Jin in the background it's not that shaan who's

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment BiN9UQPOpMA/s/1. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bin9uqpopma/s/1/

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