omitting it is the better course when the uninformed assume that this prayer is a fixed sunnah or even an obligation. In such a case, it should be left off until people realize that it is neither a regular sunnah nor compulsory. This is all the more necessary when the congregation performs it without fail; then it ought to be dropped from time to time so that it does not come to resemble a prescribed duty. For the same reason, most scholars preferred that one not constantly recite the verse that requires a prostration on Fridays, even though the sound narrations confirm that the Prophet ﷺ did recite it. If even the continual practice of