Istisqa Prayers Held at Kuwait Mosques

IQNA – Mosque across Kuwait hosted Istisqa (rain-seeking) prayers on Saturday morning.

News ID: 3486440

Date: 16 December 2023 - 13:06

According to KUNA news agency, the Arab country’s Awqaf and Islamic affairs ministry had urged mosques’ prayer leaders and preachers to organize Istisqa prayers.

A total of 109 mosques in different provinces of Kuwait hosted the religious ritual, which is also known as Salatul-Istisqa.

Istisqa means seeking rain from Allah during drought and times of low rainfall.

This was performed by the Prophet (PBUH) as narrations say the Prophet (PBUH) went to the praying ground to seek rain.

He faced the Qiblah, turned his cloak inside out, and prayed two raka’ats (units).

Salatul-Istisqa is performed when there is a drought and sparse rainfall, or the level of water in the streams and well is low, or due to the river drying up.

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It consists of two raka’ats. In the first raka’at of the prayers a person should recite Surah al-Fatiha and a Surah and then say five takbirs and after every takbir he should recite qunut. After the fifth qunut he should say another takbir and then preform bowing and two prostrations.

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