Duas in Salah in Non-Arabic Languages.

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الحمد لله و الصلاة و السلام على رسول الله و على آله و صحبه أجمعين…

1) There is no proof from the Prophet ﷺ whatsoever that personal Duas in the prayer are to be made only in the pure Arabic language.

2)`Amr bin Malik Al-Janbi narrated that he heard Fadalah bin `Ubaid saying:

“The Prophet (ﷺ) heard a man supplicating in his Salat but he did not send Salat upon the Prophet (ﷺ), so the Prophet (ﷺ) said: ‘This one has rushed.’ Then he called him and said to him, or to someone other than him: ‘When one of you performs Salat, then let him begin by expressing gratitude to Allah and praising Him. Then, let him send Salat upon the Prophet (ﷺ), then let him supplicate after that, whatever he wishes.’” (Sunan At-Tirmidhi 3477)

(Note: The Prophet ﷺ rectified the Sahabi while he erred in making a Dua, so it is unimaginable that he ﷺ left out reminding the Ummah about the importance of the Arabic language in Dua.)

3)It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that:

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “The closest that a person can be to his Lord, the Mighty and Sublime, is when he is prostrating, so increase in supplication then. Sunan An-Nasai 1137.

4) Jubair bin Nufair narrated that `Ubadah bin As-Samit narrated to them that, the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:

“There is not a Muslim upon the earth who calls upon Allah with any supplication, except that Allah grants it to him, or he turns away from him the like of it in evil; as long as he does not supplicate for something sinful, or the severing of the ties of kinship.” So a man from the people said: “What if we should increase (in it)” He (ﷺ) said: “(With) Allah is more.” (Sunan At-Tirmidhi 3573.)

(Note: There is no mention of Arabic being a condition in both the Ahadith above.)

5) Allah said in The Quran in many places that He doesn’t burden a soul (during worship) with more that it can bear. -This is a proof that it is not obligatory to stick to Arabic or compose Duas in Arabic for people who do not know Arabic.

6) The Prophet ﷺ and his Sahaba were aware and had people who accepted Islam and spoke non-Arabic languages, yet this didn’t make the Prophet ﷺ prohibit Dua in other than Arabic.

Proof that the Sahaba knew and were aware of Non-Arabic tongues.

7) As a summary: Supplications in the pillars and obligatory aspects of Salah (prayers) are to be done in Arabic. For the Sunnah aspects and Duas of prayers, we can do Dua in non- Arabic languages. It is safer to keep the Fard prayers free of any non-Arabic words to stay safe from scholarly differences. We may use Nawafil or Mustahab (non-obligatory) prayers for Duas in our own languages to stay safe.

8) This is an issue subject to scholarly dispute.

Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah said:

It is permissible to make du’aa’ in Arabic and in languages other than Arabic. Allaah knows the intention of the supplicant and what he wants, no matter what language he speaks, because He hears all the voices in all different languages, asking for all kinds of needs.

Majmoo’ al-Fataawa, 22/488-489. (Islamqa.info|20953)

Read the differences of opinions on this issue:

https://islamqa.info/en/answers/262254/ruling-on-offering-supplication-duaa-in-a-language-other-than-arabic-in-the-prayer-and-otherwise

http://ferkous.com/home/?q=fatwa-610

Note: I have used some proofs from both the links above to make this note.

More proofs will be added in the future In sha Allah, if Allah makes it easy for us.

-Abu Muaaz Mohammed Manna

21st April 2020.