Work out roughly how many prayers you owe, turn that number into a daily plan you can actually keep, and record what you have made up. Everything is calculated in your browser and saved only on this device.
Menstruation and postnatal bleeding are not made up for prayer. All four schools agree on this. Fasting is the opposite case — missed fasts of Ramadan are made up, missed prayers are not. People get this backwards often, so enter those days as an exempt period below and they will be subtracted.
Witr: the Hanafi school holds Witr to be wajib, so it is owed and made up. The majority of scholars hold it to be a confirmed sunnah, which most do not treat as a qaza debt. Set the Witr switch to match what you follow — this page does not decide between the two.
Order (tartib): some scholars, particularly in the Hanafi school, hold that missed prayers should be made up in the order they were missed. That requirement is commonly said to lapse once six or more prayers are owed, or when the time for the current prayer is running short — so someone with years of missed prayers is usually not bound by it. The Shafi‘i and Hanbali positions generally treat the order as recommended rather than binding when the number is large.
Prayers left deliberately: the majority of scholars hold that they must still be made up, alongside sincere repentance. A minority — notably Ibn Hazm and Ibn Taymiyyah — held that a prayer deliberately left until its time ran out cannot be made up at all, and that what is owed instead is repentance and an abundance of voluntary prayer. This tool takes no side; it only counts.
If your case is unusual — a long illness, a period of unconsciousness, coming to Islam later in life, or real uncertainty about when you reached puberty — ask a qualified scholar. Nothing on this page is a fatwa.
Normally puberty. If you are unsure, most people take a birthday between roughly 12 and 15. Nothing before this date is owed.
The day you began praying all five daily prayers consistently.
Add any stretch of time in which prayer was not owed: menstruation, postnatal bleeding, unconsciousness, or an illness severe enough that the obligation lapsed. These days are subtracted from the total.
No exempt periods added yet.
This adds or removes one prayer of three rak‘ahs for every missed day.
Every count can be overwritten. If you know a particular prayer better than the arithmetic does — you kept Fajr for a year, say — type your own number in.
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Qaza — also written qada — is an obligatory prayer performed after its appointed time has passed. The five daily prayers are tied to their times: "Indeed, prayer has been decreed upon the believers a decree of specified times" (Quran 4:103). A prayer offered outside its window is therefore not the same act as one offered inside it; it is a debt being settled. The Prophet, peace be upon him, said that whoever forgets a prayer or sleeps through it should pray it when he remembers it (reported by al-Bukhari and Muslim), and from this the schools built the wider ruling that missed obligatory prayers are made up.
Qaza-e-umri, a "lifetime's qaza", is the phrase used for the accumulated prayers of someone who did not pray for years and now wants to settle the account. There is no special prayer by that name and no shortcut form of it: it means praying the ordinary missed fard prayers, however many there are, for however long it takes.
Sunnah and nafl prayers are not counted anywhere in this. They are not a debt and are not made up. The rak‘ah figures are the fard rak‘ahs of a resident, not a traveller.
Suppose someone became accountable on 1 January 2010 and began praying all five prayers consistently on 1 January 2020. That span is 3,652 days — ten years, two of them leap years. Suppose she also enters 60 days as exempt. That leaves 3,592 days counted.
Five prayers a day × 3,592 days = 17,960 prayers. In rak‘ahs: 3,592 × (2 + 4 + 4 + 3 + 4) = 3,592 × 17 = 61,064 rak‘ahs. Counting Witr as well adds 3,592 prayers and 10,776 rak‘ahs, for 21,552 prayers and 71,840 rak‘ahs.
At five qaza prayers a day, 17,960 prayers take 3,592 days — a little under ten years. At ten a day, 1,796 days, under five years. That is the point of seeing the number: it turns a vague dread into a schedule with an end.
Fix two dates — when you became accountable, normally puberty or your best estimate of it, and when you began praying regularly. Count the days between them, subtract the days you were exempt, and multiply by five (six if you count Witr). That is the figure this calculator produces. If you cannot pin the dates down at all, scholars generally advise erring on the higher side, so that the debt is more likely to be fully cleared.
No. The obligation begins at puberty, or at the moment of accepting Islam for someone who converts later. A child is taught and encouraged to pray and is rewarded for it, but nothing is owed for the years before accountability. Set the start date accordingly.
No. Prayers missed during menstruation or postnatal bleeding are not made up, and the schools are agreed on this. Fasting is the opposite: missed fasts of Ramadan are made up. Aisha, may Allah be pleased with her, was asked why a menstruating woman makes up the fast and not the prayer, and she confirmed that this is what they were commanded (recorded in Sahih Muslim). Enter those days in the exempt section so they are subtracted from the total.
Scholars differ. The Hanafi school holds that they should be prayed in the order they were missed, but that this requirement lapses once six or more prayers are owed, or when the time for the current prayer is short — which means someone with years of missed prayers is usually not bound by it. The Shafi‘i and Hanbali positions treat the order as recommended rather than binding once the number is large. Follow your own school; the total does not change either way.
Yes, and it is the common practice: after each current fard prayer, make up one missed prayer of the same kind — a qaza Fajr after Fajr, a qaza Dhuhr after Dhuhr, and so on. It is easy to remember, and it keeps the pace steady. Qaza can be prayed at other times of day too; the schools differ on making up an obligatory prayer during the three short periods in which voluntary prayer is discouraged (sunrise, solar zenith, sunset), so follow your school there.
Whatever you can keep doing. Five a day clears one missed day per day, which means a decade of missed prayers takes about a decade to settle. Two or three a day is slower but far more likely to survive illness, travel and busy months — and consistency finishes the debt where intensity usually stalls. The Prophet, peace be upon him, said the deeds most beloved to Allah are the most consistent, even if small (al-Bukhari and Muslim). Set a target in the planner and revise it when life changes.