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    Question ID: 41399Country: India

    Title: How many rakah are there in tarawih

    Question: (1) How many rakah are there in tarawih? (2) Is reciting (the name of four Khalifa) tasbih (between 4 rakah and 2 rakah) in tarawih lawful or not?

    Answer ID: 41399

    Bismillah hir-Rahman nir-Rahim !

    (Fatwa: 1315/879/H=1433) (1) It is twenty rakah. (2) It is not proved to recite the tasbih in the name of four caliphs which is prevalent. Thus it should be given up.

    Allah (Subhana Wa Ta'ala) knows Best

    Darul Ifta,

    Darul Uloom Deoband, India