Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 305
9 July 1907 305 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 A m i n ? The Promised Messiah as replied: What is the need for reciting the prayer aloud? God Almighty has in fact directed: 1 اًعُّرَضَت َّو ًةَيْفُخ اًعُّرَضَت َّو ًةَيْفُخ And: 2 َنْوُد ِرْهَجْلا َنِم ِلْوَقْلا َنْوُد ِرْهَجْلا َنِم ِلْوَقْلا It was submitted: ‘The Qun u t 3 is recited [aloud]. ’ The Promised Messiah as replied: Yes, the supplications attributed to the Holy Prophet s as that are mentioned in the Quran and the Hadith can undoubtedly be 1. [Call upon your Lord] in humility and in secret ( S u rah al-A‘r a f, 7:56). [Publisher] 2. Without loudness of speech ( S u rah al-A‘r a f, 7:206). [Publisher] 3. The Qun u t prayer is recited in the last raka‘ a h of the Witr Prayer during the qiy a m posture, just before sajdah. [Publisher]