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How important are Sunnah prayers?

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Sunnah prayers are very important as they help compensate for deficiencies in obligatory prayers. sunnah prayers, supererogatory prayers, nafl prayers, deficiencies, obligatory prayers, hadith https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SXd2yv9IMd4
Sunnah prayers are extremely important because we know the hadith collects about material with the Prophet said that Allah will look at our obligatory prayers and if there's any deficiencies, Allah then looks to the supererogatory prayers meaning your Sunnah prayers, your nafl prayers and so on to see if there is anything there that can help make up towards the deficiencies that we have so it's really important to always whenever you can try and pray as many of the Sunnah prayers as you can throughout the day inshallah.
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What happens if you only pray fard and no sunnah or nafl?
The sheikh said that on Judgment Day, Allah will first ask about Salah and will use Sunnah and Nafl prayers to compensate for deficiencies in obligatory prayers.
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Is it a must for a male to join the congregation prayer at the masjid, or can he decide to pray alone?
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