Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 305
9 JULY 1907 Praying Aloud in One's Own Language An individual posed the question: Your Holiness, since it is your teaching to supplicate in one's own language during the formal Prayer, is it permissible for the Imam to go on praying aloud in his own language (for exam- ple in Urdu) and the congregation to go on responding with Amin? The Promised Messiahas replied: What is the need for reciting the prayer aloud? God Almighty has in fact directed: And: تَضَرُّعًا وَخُفْيَةً دُونَ الْجَهْرِ مِنَ الْقَوْلِ 2 305 It was submitted: 'The Qunut is recited [aloud]. ' The Promised Messiahas replied: Yes, the supplications attributed to the Holy Prophetsas that are mentioned in the Quran and the Hadith can undoubtedly be 1. [Call upon your Lord] in humility and in secret (Sūrah al-A'raf, 7:56). [Publisher] 2. Without loudness of speech (Sūrah al-Aʻrāf, 7:206). [Publisher] 3. The Qunut prayer is recited in the last rakaʻāh of the Witr Prayer during the qiyām posture, just before sajdah. [Publisher]