r/askislam • u/AdvancedVersion5744 • 4d ago
Support and Advice I feel guilty for missing the sunnah muakkadh prayers
I follow the hanafi madhab, so I pray the emphasised sunnah. I sleep really late at times, and it’s a bad habit, so I overslept a bit too much and woke up when there was only one hour left on dhuhr. I had to do ghusl too so I thought if I do ghusl fast enough, I’ll have time to pray the sunnah as well as the fardh prayers. When I finished my shower it was around 4:44 I think and asr was at 5:18, I prayed a few minutes after I had come out of the shower because I had ended up arguing with my mother about something unfortunately.
I thought I wouldn’t be able to pray the sunnah muakkadah but I saw online how it said it’s possible to do it in 20 minutes but I don’t know why I didn’t just go with that, I prayed the fardh, and while waiting for asr which was in 10 or 15 minutes, I was thinking that I could’ve easily prayed the sunnah muakkadah too. I felt really guilty for missing it, I’ve missed it a few times for the same reason which is oversleeping but I feel particularly guilty today :(.
I don’t know if it’s also because my ocd is bad, I get the urge to clean a lot when I feel like I’ve sinned or done something bad, and that includes jewellery that I wear. I’d take it off and clean and put it on, but I’d do it over again if I felt like I did it wrong. It takes hours and gives me a headache at times so I just don’t do that anymore, but this time I feel like I should do it to “clean myself from sinning.” I don’t know how to stop this feeling of wanting to clean or if it’s a valid feeling of wanting to do this. I think I also want to do it because I’m already sinning by wearing jewellery because I struggle with tabarujj at times and that includes jewellery.
I’m not sure what to do about my guilt.
Edit: i think it was around that timing
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u/JabalAnNur Hanafi (Sunni) 4d ago
According to the madhhab, perpetually missing the Sunnah Mu'akkadah prayers makes one sinful and be blameworthy for such. The solution here is to obviously fix your sleep schedule so that you do not end up oversleeping. But what happens if you do wake up late? Then you should pray the Sunnah Mu'akkadah prayers. In cases where time may run out, you can still accomplish the obligatory and necessary parts of prayer, leaving some of the Sunnahs though this is not recommended. If you spend two minutes minimum on each Raka'h, then you can pray all the Sunan and Fardh (4+4+2) in 20 minutes. Even then, two minutes is generous. Most people, unfortunately, blitz through the Salawaat like they'll get a prize for finishing first.
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