How Can I Make up Several Years of Prayers Despite Being Very Busy?

Answered by Ustadh Tabraze Azam

Question: Assalam alaykum

1) I am performing my 5 years make up prayers (Qada). I really want to perform them well but I am a very busy person i.e. I am engaged in quranic studies and a college student also. Please give me any piece of advice to perform them because I feel very depressed sometimes. Can I perform them in a short way?

2) While performing multiple qada prayers at one time, can I give single azan and iqamah for all of them?

Answer: Wa alaikum assalam wa rahmatullah,

1. Pray them with all the sunnas, but as quickly as you can without rushing. Consider shortening the end of the prayer by reciting a brief prayer upon the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) and general supplication. Similarly, recite something brief for the supplication of qunut in the witr prayer. Ask Allah Most High to give you tawfiq.

2. Men should minimally give a brief call to prayer (adhan), and then an iqama for each obligatory prayer. This shouldn’t be deliberately left, but doing so obviously doesn’t affect the validity of the prayer, so you needn’t worry about your prayers prayed without having done this.

Please also see this answer.

And Allah Most High knows best.

[Ustadh] Tabraze Azam

Checked and Approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

Ustadh Tabraze Azam holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Leicester, where he also served as the President of the Islamic Society. He memorised the entire Qur’an in his hometown of Ipswich at the tender age of sixteen, and has since studied the Islamic Sciences in traditional settings in the UK, Jordan and Turkey. He is currently pursuing advanced studies in Jordan, where he is presently based with his family.