and pronounces the takbīr. Once he has settled into a sitting position, he pronounces the takbīr again and prostrates. When he is steady in prostration, he pronounces the takbīr, rises straight to standing on the balls of his feet, without sitting back down or pushing up with his hands.

In the second rakʿah he does exactly what he did in the first, except that he neither begins with the opening invocation nor seeks refuge, and he raises his hands only with the initial takbīr.

When he lifts his head from the second prostration of the second rakʿah, he spreads his left foot and sits on it, keeps the right foot upright with its toes pointing toward the qiblah, places his hands on his thighs with his fingers outstretched, and recites the tashahhud.

The tashahhud is to say:
“al-taḥiyyātu lillāh, al-ṣalawātu wa-l-ṭayyibāt.
al-salāmu ʿalayka ayyuhā al-nabiyy wa raḥmatu-llāhi wa barakātuh.
al-salāmu ʿalaynā wa ʿalā ʿibādi-llāhi al-ṣāliḥīn.
ash-hadu allā ilāha illā Allāh,
wa ash-hadu anna Muḥammadan ʿabduhu wa rasūluh.”
He adds nothing beyond this in the first sitting.

In the final two rakʿahs he recites only the Opening Chapter (al-Fātiḥah). When he sits at the end of the prayer, he sits as in the first sitting, recites the tashahhud, invokes blessings upon the Prophet ﷺ, and supplicates for whatever he wishes, so long as the wording resembles that of the Quran or the transmitted supplications; he should not use phrases that resemble ordinary speech. He then ends the prayer by turning to his right and saying, “al-salāmu ʿalaykum wa raḥmatu-llāh,” and the same to his left.

He recites aloud in the Dawn Prayer and in the first two rakʿahs.