Supplications During Prayers in Languages Other Than Arabic What is the status of saying Duas (e.g., asking Allah for personal needs etc.), asking Allah (SWT)'s forgiveness and refuge from Shaytan, praising Allah (other than the prescribed Kalimat) during Salat- both Fard and Sunnah and Nawafil. Please answer in the light of Qur'an, Sunnah and Ahadeeth. Reply Asking Allah for our worldly things and well being is an important part of our relationship with the Most Gracious. It is a part of our relationship with Allah that we ask Him, and only Him, for our worldly requirements, in addition to those of our real life in the hereafter. As is reported by Anas (RA): the Prophet (PBUH) said: "You should ask all your requirements from your Lord and Provider (Allah), even if it is a thing as trivial as your shoe laces". As far as using our own words in such supplications is concerned, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. We can ask Allah for all our requirements whether they concern our temporary life or the permanent one, in any language and using any words we like. Nothing prohibits us from doing so. But using any other language in our obligatory prayers is something that is not recommended. The reason is that keeping the obligatory prayers in the Arabic language has given these prayers a standard form in the whole of the Ummah. There has been and is no difference in the obligatory prayers in the essential words pronounced in it. If it were allowed to pronounce the translations of these words, such standardization could not have been maintained. The Learner