[yahyynzer]

Assalaamu Alaikum,

1. I know there is a sujood we do if we forget how many rakats we pray during the salaat? I often end up doubting how many rakats. Can someone please help me understand this. I've googled this but it seemed a bit confusing as I'm not sure what we have to recite etc.

2. During the prayer if we know we made a mistake how do we leave the prayer and start again? I always feel like I'm doing something wrong if I just stop and start again but if I don't stop, the whole time I can't concentrate etc as I would have to re-do the prayer. This isn't the case as forgetting. It's if I make a mistake in reciting and then after I move on to the next thing, I realise I made that mistake.

3. When we do witr prayers, in the Shafi' madhhab when do we recite Qunoot? And if we do three rakats, do we do two rakats and give salaam and then get up and do the final one rakat and give salam again? What surats do we recite? Do we recite Surat Naas, Surat Falag, and Surat Ikhlas all in the last rakat one after the other?