Salat of Ayat (Namaz-e-Ayat) Namaz-e-Ayat becomes obligatory (Wajib) due the following four things: Solar Eclipse, Lunar Eclipse The pr...
Namaz-e-Ayat becomes obligatory (Wajib) due the following four things: Solar Eclipse, Lunar Eclipse
The prayer becomes Wajib even if the moon or the sun are partially eclipsed, and even if they do not engender any fear.
Earthquake, as an obligatory precaution, even if no one is frightened.
Thunder and lightning, red and black cyclone and other similar celestial phenomena, which frightens most of the people; similarly for the terrestrial events like receding sea water, or falling mountains which engender fear in these circumstances, as per recommended precaution, Namaz-e-Ayat be offered.
If several events which make Namaz-e-Ayat obligatory occur together, one should offer Namaz-e-Ayat for each of them. The time of Namaz-e-Ayat sets in as the eclipse starts, and remains till the eclipse is over.
Method of Offering Namaz-e-Ayat
Namaz-e-Ayat consists of two Rak'ats, and there are five Ruku' in each. Its method is as follows:
1) Niyaat
2) takbir (Allahu Akbar)
3) recite Surah al-Hamd
and the other Surah, and then perform the Ruku'. Thereafter, he should stand and recite Surah al-Hamd and a Surah and then perform another Ruku'. He should repeat this action five times, and, when he stands after the fifth Ruku', he should perform two Sajdah, and then stand up to perform the second Rak'at in the same manner as he has done in the first. Then he should recite tashahhud and Salam.
Namaz-e-Ayat can also be offered in the following manner:
1) Niyaat
2) takbir (Allahu Akbar)
3) recite Surah al-Hamd
then divide the verses of the other Surah into five parts, and recite one verse or more or less and thereafter perform the Ruku'. He should then stand up and recite another part of the Surah (without reciting Surah al-Hamd) and then perform another Ruku'. He should repeat this action, and finish that Surah before performing the fifth Ruku'.
For example, he may say:
Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim with the niyyat of reciting Surah al-Ikhlas, and perform the Ruku'.
He should then stand up and say, Qul huwallahu Ahad, and perform another Ruku'.
He should then stand up and say, Allahus Samad, and perform the third Ruku'.
Thereafter he should stand up again and say, Lam yalid walam yulad, and perform the fourth Ruku'.
Then he should stand up again and say, Walam yakun lahu Kufuwan ahad,
and then perform two Sajdah
then rise for the second Rak'at, the same way as the first Rak'at. At the end, he should recite tashahhud and Salam after the two Sajdah.
We would like to draw your attention to two particular rulings:
1505. If a person delays offering of Namaz-e-Ayaat till the sun or the moon starts coming out of eclipse, the niyyat of Ada (i.e. praying within time) will be in order, but if he offers the prayers after the eclipse is over, he should make a niyyat of qadha.
1508. If a person did not know about the sun or the moon eclipse, and came to know after the eclipse was over, he should give its qadha if it was a total eclipse. And if he comes to know that the eclipse was partial, qadha will not be obligatory.
Namaz-e-Ayat: http://www.al-islam.org/laws/ayaat.html
