in their entirety. (1) It was then said: They had arrived as Muslims, having repented, so he stopped. (2)

He also supplicated against certain named individuals, invoking Allah’s curse upon them, saying, “O Allah, curse so-and-so and so-and-so,” until His saying, Exalted is He, was revealed:

“You have no part in the decision—whether He turns to them in mercy or punishes them.” [Al ‘Imran 3:128] (3)

So he stopped. Thus, the Prophet’s supplication in qunut was suited to the circumstance and proportionate to the need; it was not continual.

His statement, “in the obligatory prayers”: the definite article attached to a plural denotes generality—that is, in Fajr, Zuhr, Asr, Maghrib, and Isha. It is not restricted to the Fajr prayer; rather, it applies to all the prayers. This is how it is authentically reported from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him: that he performed qunut in all the prayers. (4)

Some scholars excluded the Friday prayer, saying that qunut is not performed in it, because the hadiths reported from the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, state that he performed qunut in the five prayers: Fajr, Zuhr, Asr, Maghrib, and Isha. They do not mention the Friday prayer. Friday prayer is an independent prayer and is not included under the designation of Zuhr when the latter is mentioned without qualification. This is why Asr cannot be combined with it if a person is travelling