Qunut
The Qunoot (Arabic قنوت, obedience ') is a supplication that is inserted in the morning or at night in the Islamic ritual prayer. Today, it usually consists of a request for divine grace and guidance for which there are pre-defined texts.
Originally the Qunoot was a Verfluchungsritus, in which the worshiper raised his hands and asked God for destruction of his enemies. As a greater number of Muslims in Bi ʾ r Ma ʿ Una was massacred in 625, Muhammad is said to have even cursed a month the tribe of Banū Sulaym, who was responsible for the massacre at morning prayer or witr prayer in the form of Qunoot. ʿ Alī ibn Abī Also Taalib and Mu ʿ āwiya I should have cursed each other during their dispute for leadership of the Islamic community with the Qunoot.
The change in the Qunoot of the curse to simple prayer was part of the systematization of the Islamic theory of norms. Relative is generally agreed that the Qunoot time behind the Sit-Ups ( ruku ʿ ) is in the central part of the prayer. Via the degree of liability of the Qunoot and on the question of whether one should raise their hands, but the views were expressed in the various schools of the theory of norms. In particular, the Qunoot in the morning prayer was and is controversial. While al- Shafii and Malik ibn Anas considered him a sunna - duty, thought Abu Hanifa Ahmad ibn Hanbal and that he would be abrogated, and rejected it.