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"'''''Qunut'''''" is a supplication type of prayer made while standing in Islam. thumb|250x250px|The position of the hands while reciting qunūt. [[File:Azna - Almahdi Town - 1983.JPG|thumb|252x252px|Qunut prayer of Eid al-Fitr 1362 Azna, Al-Mahdi City, Iran.]]

== Etymology == "'''''Qunūt'''''" ({{langx|ar|القنوت}}) Qunut comes from the root "qunu", which literally means to obtain something and a cluster of dates, and in Quranic terms, it means obedience and worship along with humility and humility.<ref>{{cite book|last=Ragheb Isfahani|first=Hossin B. Mohamad|date=2005|title=المفردات فی غریب القرآن |trans-title=Vocabulary in the strange Qur’an|language=Arabic|location=Beirut, Lebanon|publisher=House of Knowledge|isbn=9789953420073 }}</ref> The word duʿā' ({{langx|ar|دعاء}}) is Arabic for supplication, so the longer phrase duʿā' qunūt is sometimes used.

Qunut has many linguistic meanings, such as humility, obedience and devotion. However, it is more understood to be a special du'a which is recited during the prayer.

== Customs ==

=== Shia === Reciting ''qunūt'' in prayer—raising the hands before the face and reciting supplications—as is commonly practiced among Shia (raising both hands in the second rak‘ah before going into rukūʿ), is not customary in any of the four Sunni schools of thought.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Shihab|first=Moh. Quraish|date=2014|title=Sunnah-Syiah bergandengan tangan! mungkinkah? : kajian atas konsep ajaran dan pemikiran|location=Ciputat|publisher=Lentera Hati|lang=id|isbn=978-602-7720-23-7|edition=Revised|pages=248|oclc=986240405|author-link=Muhammad Quraish Shihab}}</ref>

In all obligatory and recommended prayers, performing ''qunūt'' in the second rak‘ah before rukūʿ is considered recommended (''mustahabb'').

=== Sunni === It is permissible to make the ''qunut'' before going into ''ruku'' (bowing), or it may be recited when one stands up straight after the ''ruku''. Humaid says: "I asked Anas: 'Is the qunut before or after the ''ruku''?' he said: 'We would do it before or after." This hadith was related by Ibn Majah and Muhammad ibn Nasr. In Fath al-Bari, Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani comments that its chain is faultless.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}} During dua qunut, the hands should be put together like a beggar.

The minority Ibadi school of Islam rejects the practice of ''qunūt'' altogether.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hoffman|first=Valerie J.|date=2012|title=The essentials of Ibadi Islam|location=Syracuse, N.Y.|publisher=Syracuse University Press|isbn=978-0-8156-5084-3|pages=43|oclc=809317476}}</ref>

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