WITR

Witr can refer to:

WITR (FM), an FM radio station located in Henrietta, New York
Witr, a Muslim prayer

This article is about the Muslim prayer. For the radio station, see WITR (FM).

Witr (Arabic: وتر) is an optional Muslim prayer yet that can be performed at night after Isha'a and before Fajr. There are a few distinguishing factors of the Witr prayer that sets it apart from the fard (mandatory) and sunnah (recommended) prayers. Witr has an odd number of Rakat (pl.) prayed in pairs, with the final raka'ah (s.) prayed separately. Therefore, as little as three rakat can be prayed, and eleven at most. This differs from the usual trend of two and four Rakat of the fard and sunnah prayers. Witr prayers are basically Tahajjud prayers, which were obligatory for Muhammad but were naf'l (not madatory) for other Muslims. Tarawih, as in Sunni Islam, refers to the same prayer except it is mostly not prayed alone and it is prayed in the month of Ramadan.

Muhammad said, according to Ibn Umar, "The night prayer is offered as two Rakat followed by two Rakat and so on and if anyone is afraid of the approaching dawn (Fajr prayer) he should pray one Raka and this will be a Witr for all the Rakat which he has prayed before."

References

Translation of Sahih Bukhari, Book 16: Witr Prayer
The Status of Sunnah & Witr Prayers, The Time for Fajr & Maghrib and the Allowance of Combining Prayers
Clarification on the timing of Witr and Taraweeh prayers
The Witr Prayer

WITR, more commonly known as WITR-FM 89.7, is a student run broadcast station in Henrietta, New York, owned by the Rochester Institute of Technology.

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Station status: Licensed class A non-commercial FM station

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Radio broadcasting is an audio (sound) broadcasting service, traditionally broadcast through the air as radio waves (a form of electromagnetic radiation) from a
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Muslim (Arabic: مسلم) is an adherent of the religion of Islam. The feminine form of 'Muslim' is Muslimah (Arabic: مسلمة).
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Prayer is the act of attempting to communicate, commonly with a sequence of words, with a deity or spirit for the purpose of worshiping, requesting guidance, requesting assistance, confessing sins, or to express one's thoughts and emotions.
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WITR, more commonly known as WITR-FM 89.7, is a student run broadcast station in Henrietta, New York, owned by the Rochester Institute of Technology.

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Station status: Licensed class A non-commercial FM station

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al-‘Arabiyyah in written Arabic (Kufic script):
Pronunciation: /alˌʕa.raˈbij.ja/
Spoken in: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman,
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Muslim (Arabic: مسلم) is an adherent of the religion of Islam. The feminine form of 'Muslim' is Muslimah (Arabic: مسلمة).
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The Isha (Arabic: عشاء) prayer is the night-time daily prayer recited by practising Muslims. It is the fifth of the five daily prayers (salah).
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The Fajr (Arabic: فجر) prayer is the first of the five daily prayers (salat) recited by practising Muslims. (Fajr means dawn in the Arabic language.
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Fard (Arabic: الفرض) also farida (Arabic: الفريضة) is an Islamic term which denotes a religious duty.
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¹ Only performed in the first raka'ah of the prayer.
² Only first half of it is performed in the second raka'ah in a 3/4-Raka'ah prayer like Al-zuhr(4) or Al Maghreb(3), whereas all of it is performed in the final (last) raka'ah in
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Tahajjud (ta-hajj-od), also known as the "night prayer" is a voluntary prayer, performed by followers of Islam. It is not one of the five obligatory prayers required of all Muslims, yet still, Muhammad is recorded as performing it many times and encouraging his companions to offer
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Islamic prophet Muhammad

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Tarawih (تراويح) is an Arabic phrase referring to extra prayers given by Muslims at night in the Islamic month of Ramadan.

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Sunni Muslims are the largest denomination of Islam. Sunni Islam is also referred to as Sunnism or as Ahl as-Sunnah wa’l-Jamā‘h (Arabic:
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Ramadan (Arabic: رمضان, Ramaḍān, Ramazan in Iran, Pakistan, India, Turkey and other countries) is a Muslim religious observance that takes place during the ninth month of the
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Islamic prophet Muhammad

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Abd-Allah ibn Umar
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Birth: 614CE
death: 74 AH (693)^[1]

Main interests: hadith and Fiqh
Influenced: Abu Suhail an-Nafi

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Tarawih (تراويح) is an Arabic phrase referring to extra prayers given by Muslims at night in the Islamic month of Ramadan.

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