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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, Merciful, Merciful, Merciful, Merciful, Peace be upon you.

Today we resume our Q&As that we do on Tuesday.

And today, in inshAllah, we will answer a number of questions put together, which will

be beneficial insha'Allah, given that Ramadan is around the corner, and all of these questions

deal with the reality of Salat al-Tarawih, what is the meaning of tarawih, what is the origin

of tarawih, what is the difference between tarawih and Qiyam al-Layel versus Tahadjud versus

Witter, so all of these different questions that have come and I'm just going to lump

them together generically and give an insha'Allah an answer to the generic questions about

the reality of Salat al-Tarawih.

So we begin by pointing out the Quranic terms.

The Quranic terms for praying at night or two, both of them are found in the Quran.

The first is Qiyam al-Layel and the second is Tahadjud.

These are the Quranic terms for praying the nightly prayer.

The term tarawih is neither found in the Quran nor is it found in the Sunnah.

It was coined as we will mention in a while by some early scholars perhaps in the second

century of the Hijrah and it did not become popular for at least 100 to 300 years.

You will find with great difficulty references to the term tarawih in the first 300 years

of Islam, even though you will find a few.

But the common term tarawih it became in the fifth century onwards.

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