Question 145) - What are the Wajibat of Salaah?

There are as follows:

1. Recitation of Surah al-Fatihah.
2. To join a Surah or three Aayat with it.
3. To read al-Fatihah before the Surah.
4. To recite in the first two Rak'at of the Farad.
5. Coming to a standstill in each posture ~Itminan~.
6. The first sitting.
7. Tashshahud in the first and second sitting.
8. The word, "Salam," when intending to end the Salaah.
9. Qunut in Witr.
10. The extra Takbirs of Eid.
11. For the Imam to read Qira-ah aloud in Fajr, Jumu'ah, the two 'lids, Tarawih, Witr of Rama~an and the first two Rak'at of Maghrib and 'Isha.
12. For the Imam to read Qira-ah softly in Zhuhr and 'As r and after the first two Rak'at of Maghrib and 'Isha.

~ al-Quduri ~