Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Ramadan Tarawih Seminar
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There is there are some who have raised an objection that you know,
sometimes what happens is that if you made a mistake yesterday to
small mistakes, or what you do is next day, there's some profiles.
At the beginning they read just those verses, one verse from, you
know, one quarter and then and then they start today's like, what
are you doing? They wonder like, why are you bringing these verses
and then you're reading today's juice or something, and they think
that that's better or something, however, and I'm going to mention
this because a lot of people don't know about this.
According to
measurement will fatawa there's a whole discussion on this, it says
that
God can be Makita your kiddo Nora Julian yet to methodical email
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either, who, that in Makkah, meaning somebody should correct
what they've made as a mistake, like a little verse And the
mistake in there. Because in Maccha, they had actually
appointed a guy to sit on the side and or not necessarily sit but
after every he's a half it if he couldn't take the mister mistake
wasn't taken out, he would actually write down the mistakes.
And then on the night of the 2729 whenever they finish in the Quran,
they would actually go through all of them first. You don't want to
do that. That'd be a lot to go through, most likely right and
they only make one mistake. So try to do it by the next day or the
next class. So that's there. And also, from the Hamleys, it says
that God has had gotta be Mohamed Abu Mohammed, he says we're in the
midst of the Hamburg Erica Lita team Mahatma work with Philip.
This is Musa have to repeat and finish off those small verses just
so the Hutton meaning the completion of the Quran can be
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Hoonah that they the people of Makkah Imam Ahmed and his
colleagues and his students, they said that you should repeat the
Forgotten parts separately to complete the Quran. And the hatom
even though it does spoil, and disrupt the arrangement, right,
because next day reading something else and you're just taking a
verse from the beginning of yesterday's Jews, for example, it
does do that a bit but that's fine.
And he says that this is what we've This is what has been
transmitted from Ali Radi Allahu Anhu. And now nnessee item in
Surah he wants forgot a verse, Mr. Verse from one surah some Murphy
ethna l Kira, then the middle of his middle of his reading, he
repeated it. What are the LM LD and then he went back to repeating
what to reading where he was originally, when he was mostly
people won't know because they're not half as they don't know what's
going on. Right. But is that you should you should do that.
Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa
salatu salam ala Sayidina Muhammad whiner and he also he about a cosa
limiter Sleeman Kathira en la Hometeam Amma beret the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said man Congo Ramadan Iman and YT
Serban all federal law Houma Takada momentum, which basically
means that whoever stands in the during the nights of Ramadan with
iman, with faith, the ways why else would you stand with faith
and the sub which basically means with anticipation for something,
whatever you want anticipation for reward for closeness for
forgiveness for blessing for Baraka, then your previous sins
are forgiven. So in the nights of Ramadan, while we fast during the
days in the nights, the very special thing is to stand in
prayer. That's where tarawih comes in. So there's a history of that I
read that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam, it's reported
that he did it for one or two days. And then they had they found
that the Prophet Silla Larissa was reading at night performing prayer
at nights and they said, Can we pray with you? So they were
waiting for him, and he didn't come out until so whole time
closer to budget time. And he said, The reason is that I didn't
want this to be obligated upon you. If that we become an
obligation like a forum, then that would have been a lot more
complicated. So the professor Lawson definitely did that. Are
we? You know, and that's been reported, however, exactly how he
did it, how many records he done? There's difference narrations
mentioned it was during Amara the allowance time when everything had
kind of calmed down obika The hola Juan was time was full of turmoil
after divorce or son passed away. There were different tribes,
different people in different areas who came up and some denied
Islam fully they they reneged on Islam they became disbelievers.
Some said we're going to be Muslim, but we're not going to
give us a cut. For example, obika, the Allahu Anhu was two years and
four or five months were spent just trying to quell on the
rebellions and bring back the stability. Then it was in the
Amara, the Allah on his time where he managed to reconcile and
he managed to sort a lot of things out. So he would have a committee
and he would essentially see all of the different narrations
because one Sahabi said one thing, another Sahaba remembered another
thing from the Prophet sallallahu sallam. So finally, what he he
went into the masjid one day, and he saw different people, different
groups of people doing Telavi prayer, different people doing
therapy prayer, is that I need to get everybody onto one platform.
So then he got one of the Sahaba to lead. And then he made
everybody onto the 20 records a few days later or something when
he came back and looked at it, and everybody was calmly praying
together, that the 20 records on the one Imam, he said, this is
this is what he was looking for, essentially. So since then, pretty
much that's what we had throughout the world, including in the Haram
until a few days ago, when they switched it to 10 Records, which
is a whole new idea of 10 records. I'm glad it wasn't eight, it was
10 records, and they're still doing 10 records, apparently, I
don't know how long they're gonna do that for. But that essentially,
we've had that already since then.
Last year, or actually probably was it last year or the year
before? Yeah, two years ago, in 2020. We probably had the most
taraweeh Jama as congregations ever to be held in our history.
2020 was probably, and 2021 they will probably never see as many
tarawih Gemma and congregations held in the world at any time in
our history. Why? Because the Muslim population has spread and
has expanded, you know, about nearly 2 billion or something.
Never had that many Muslims because the whole world's
population was 2 billion until a few centuries ago. So 2 billion
nearly Muslims doing tarawih prayers at home because they
weren't done in the masjid or they weren't so many in everybody
couldn't pray no mercy so that's why we had so much that are we
mashallah that's when people got an opportunity to do that. Are we
at home probably for the first time you know, lots of women did
that are we I don't think there's ever been so many people will ever
done taraweeh as to three years ago. Anyway, things are getting
back to normal now. And but Masha Allah increasingly Alhamdulillah
especially in our communities, we have lots of faith. And
what you have to understand the brothers were sitting in front of
me and who are who are listening online. Is that you? You are
becoming a new mom.
I mean, I know becoming a new mom sounds like this really big deal.
Like when am I going to become a new mom but when you do Tara, you
are an imam.
You are leading prayers. And you're usually leading prayers of
a lot of people close to Juwan. The your local Imam probably
doesn't need as many people in normal prayers because you get
more people for you for that tarawih and Juma. So that's a
massive honor isn't that you're leading all of these Muslims of
your area, people who are older than you, right? People in
different positions and mashallah, you are leading all of them in
prayer. That's why you're an imam. Imam means leader.
Now in anything, if you're a leader, it's an honor, usually,
right? Leadership is seen as an honor by a lot of people, but we
have to really look at it as a responsibility as well. Because in
the honor of being a leader, you don't become a leader just to show
off, right? That's not really part of it, it's to lead, which means
that you're taking everybody somewhere. And what you're doing
in taraweeh, is you're petitioning to Allah subhanaw taala you're
standing in front of Allah subhanaw taala. And you get to
read the Quran and offer it to Allah subhanho wa Taala everybody
else is listening. Because if I go with a group of people to petition
somewhere, we're not all going to speak at one salary. It's not a
protest, is it? Where everybody shouts? Right. It's a petition.
It's a question. It's a plea. So you're the Imam, mashallah, you're
putting the plea to Allah on behalf of your whole congregation,
and they are trusting you to do that. What I'm trying to tell you
is that it's not just an honor, but it's a massive responsibility,
because within an honor, there's a responsibility and what is that
responsibility? If I'm the one that they've chosen to lead
people, and I've got some fundamental issues going on,
right, that I could have done better at, but I'm not, and then
that's found out or even if it's not found that there's going to be
weakness in my petition. I'm not the best leader in that sense. And
I don't want you all to get a bit paranoid about that and say, we're
not doing tarawih this year, because we don't think we're the
best people to do that. Right? It's an honor if you have the
Quran Mashallah. You've got the qualification at least a major
qualification of that. And then the other thing is that easy it's
more difficult to memorize the Quran than
All the other stuff I'm probably going to tell you to do, because
you can easily do that. So it's an absolutely great honor. We thank
Allah subhanaw taala for it, because it's only a fraction of
the world fraction of the Muslims
that have the Quran by heart, and that can lead the press. Can you
believe it? And you know what an honor it is, in the early days of
Islam.
There was a tribe. They were not Muslim yet, but they were on the
road to where the prophets Allah azza wa jal was. So when people
used to pass by they were like a service village, service station
village. So people will come by, they would go and meet the Prophet
sallallahu sallam, come back, stop there. And there's a little seven,
eight year old
child living in Salem, I can't remember the exact name. And he
used to all those that were coming back he used to ask them what they
heard from the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
And whatever the remember, the Quran took about 23 years to be
revealed. So whatever Quran that somebody came now and said, Oh, I
heard this verse from the Protestantism, he would memorize
it. When the next lot of people would come and bring a new verse,
He would memorize it,
his tribe finally became Muslim. So the Prophet sallallahu sallam
said that the most learned of you in the Quran, the one who knows
the most Quran must lead your prayer. And there was nobody who
knew more Quran than him. And he was only seven, eight or nine
years old, very young, at the Hadith in Sahih. Muslim. So he got
to lead the prayer, isn't it a kid literally is not even burning. And
you can't do that today. I explained later. But he got to
lead the prayer. And he was very they were poor family. So he only
had a garment. And the women used to pray behind as well.
And they started complaining, they said that, or they might give me
some advice, they said that you need to cover your Imam property.
Because when he goes into ruku, or sujood, then some part of his body
becomes uncovered because he's got only one garment that he owns it.
He's not purposely bought Nish small garments, where you show
everything. And you purposely put your trousers down to show some
part of your back. It wasn't one of those things, it wasn't a style
thing. It was just what he needed. Right? He didn't have any more
than that. So they did a fundraiser for him.
And they bought new garments for him. And he said, Wow, that was
one of the happiest days I got new garments baraka of the Quran.
Right? I don't want you doing anything like that. Right?
So that people do a fundraiser for us.
We need to cover ourselves up properly, we need to look the part
of any man. And we may only be 1516 when you're doing your first
step away, right? But we need to look because there's a
responsibility. And the other thing is that as you know, with
our community, we have people who like to criticize. So one is you
could say I don't care about these people. But then we do have
respond whenever you're in a position you need to mitigate,
which means you need to minimize
problems. Why would you want to do something and go up there with
with for example, big logoed
tops or something like that, for example, right? And then just have
people telling you this talent, the other you don't want that
hassle that is already massively stressful. You know, just getting
it right in front of everybody with all those people behind you.
You don't want any additional stress. So you want to try to be
the optimal part because you are presenting yourself in front of
Allah subhana wa Tada. So we're not doing it to show you might be
a good recital and you just can't wait to mashallah just cause those
actors to echos to reverberate around the masjid and people just
to start, you know, zooming around, and you know, with your
recitation, but that's not the purpose of it. Right? The purpose
of it is, think of it this way, if I'm standing here to lead the
prayer, there's people behind me, right? And in front of me, I'm
praying to Allah, Allah has not physically you know, we don't
believe unless physical location, but the idea is that we're praying
towards the Qibla. So we are praying to Allah subhanaw taala.
Now, if I'm praying, I'm supposed to be praying for Allah, I am
leading people, I am concerned about them. But if I'm fully
focused on them that I need to read in this way that they just
get excited. They just get so excited and you know, they start
getting intoxicated in prayer with my recitation.
Then that's, I'm losing the focus, then I'm not gonna get reward from
Allah subhanaw taala my petition to Allah, my offering to Allah, my
devotion to Allah, I'm not the right leader. My focus is my
followers. I need to focus on Allah first. The beautiful thing
is that if you just focus on Allah, and that just means keep
your concentration on Allah. Keep your concentration of Allah. If
you're praying for Allah, it doesn't mean you're going to read
badly or you.
You you read good for Allah so you can still read well
Uh, but when you're reading for Allah, there's certain emotion
that's involved in that. And that way, people are going to be
pleased anyway. But at least you've got an Allah, you've
pleased Allah and you've put your, you've put everybody's case for
and you've given the devotion, you've led people to Allah
subhanaw taala. That's important. You keep Allah in mind, people are
going to enjoy it anyway. And if you're only focused on people's
enjoyment or people's excitement, happiness, then you literally
don't have Allah subhanaw taala in your mind, so it's not worth it.
The one way to Allah gives you both, whereas if you focus on
people, you want to get one thing, right, so Masha Allah, we are
standing in the Knights of tarawih 20 Regards, masha Allah, and we
are leading the prayer. What an honor that is, you know, it's,
it's, it's an honor to just do it yourself. But then to have to lead
the prayer, what a bigger honor, because you know what, you get the
reward for everybody who prays behind you.
You get the reward for everybody who prays behind you, because
you're leading them in prayer. And in Islam, whatever shows away,
wherever leads away, they get the reward of everybody that is being
led. So you're getting much more reward than reading alone?
Have you ever thought about that? That's something very, very
important. And the bigger the message, the probably the greater
your reward? Well, the tougher the masjid the greater reward. Right?
Because, you know, our rewards are increased by the difficulty, not
purposeful difficulty, don't create difficulties. But if there
is a difficulty, let's just say there's a place that there's no
Imam, there's no, they don't have anybody for taraweeh. And it will
be a bit of a hassle for you to go there. That would be superior,
probably more rewarding than to just do it locally, where it's so
much more comfortable, where they can find other people, you'd
rather give that place somebody else, and you go somewhere else.
Right? So all of these things matter. So now this is the way
we're going to do this, we only have a short amount of time, I've
broken this down into several segments, then I'm going to open
it up for questions because I don't think I can incorporate
everything right in this presentation. So if there's still
questions left, please write them down now. And then feel free to
ask them at the end both for the online brothers sisters, and for
you guys who are here. So firstly, we're going to go through some
practical advices, just in general, practical advices,
relating to some of the things that I've been talking about
already, and about memorizing and preparing and so on, then, I've
got about 21 points in there, then we're going to talk about some of
the massage, the fic related stuff, that which could mess up
our tarawih. And how to deal with that. So we've got several points,
I've got about eight points in that major points, then we're
going to zoom in a bit more to speak about all of the issues
related to reciting.
So mistakes and complications and other questions that relate to
Kira the actual recitation aspect of it because we are even the
Quran and reciting of it. That's very important for us to focus on
that, then then the next section is about giving corrections and
taking corrections. Because that's a inevitable part of data, we
could make a mistake get confused, you forget what next? How do you
take a correction? When you're waiting for a correction? Should
you take credit? Should you wait for connections? What should you
do? And how should people Correct? What's the practical aspects
related to that? I've got about nine, nine points on that. And
then
confusions and mistakes related to
mistake mistakes in Rocky. Like if you do three sets of two or you
end up in one and other aspects related to that. I've got about 14
points on that. And then the winter is a major part of the
trophy. So there's about four or five points on Witter. And then
essentially, the the last segment is about completing the tarawih
and ending Ramadan, essentially with tarawih and some of the
Messiah and related to that.
Then, if we've got time, then there's an appendix. But that's
not necessary. That's only if you've got time and then question
answers Insha Allah, so listen carefully, you should have brought
paper so that you can take notes of the things that are relevant to
you. Of course, this will put this up and then you can do it again.
But it's always best to take notes the first time around because it's
just easier. So if you have something you can take notes on,
that would be great, especially those that you don't know about
and you know, you might forget so that's very, very important. So
when it comes to the online, I'll again take your questions with
with everybody else's at the end inshallah.
So, having said that, let us begin with the practical advices. So,
these are just general practical advices there may be some overlap
here and there. With that said, we are
Ask Allah subhanho wa Taala for assistance, we ask Allah for
acceptance. And we begin. So the practical advices. This includes
the Messiah. And as well, because we're responsible, one of the main
things which we don't really need to be speaking about. But it's a
good reminder is that purity is very, very important. Because it's
a solid, it's a prayer, and our Salah can't be accepted without
purity without proper will do. But with those the basic aspect of it,
we can't have impurity on our body or our clothing, as well. So that
means that we do have to learn some of the material and rulings
of purity. That means it's Deborah and messenger. And all the wording
sounds a bit complicated. But essentially, when a person goes to
relieve themselves, they need to make sure that they don't just go
in and run out again, because there's a procedure. And I don't
want to have to start teaching this whole, you know, collection
of muscle here on that. But simply put, you can't really leave until
you're 100% sure
that you're dominantly sure that there's no more drops left,
there's nothing else going to come out afterwards, because if it
does, it's going to soil, your clothing. And that could have a
problem on your prayer.
So number one, you need to relieve yourself, and then stay there. And
there's multiple ways to make sure that you can relieve yourself. For
some people, they put a tissue there, and then the for urine, for
example, to make sure all the last drops have come out, to stand up
Sit down a few times to just move around a bit. And there's multiple
ways that you could do that, until you're sure they sort of don't
become OCD about this and sit there for an hour, because it
doesn't take an hour's right. But one or two minutes is usually the
case. So you can't really literally go in and do your thing
and walk out straightaway. There is a procedure, and that's what
you call stable, which means to seek to make sure that no more, no
more will come out. Once you're sure then you do is stingy, which
means you clean up. That's usually done with water, though, if it
hasn't spread much at all, then you can use a tissue. But
otherwise, it's always best to use water as well.
So that's in brief, I don't want to spend too much time on that.
But that's in brief, if you have any doubts about that you should
consult your Alma or retirement Hawk, I'm going to give you a
suggestion of two books, if you want to read about this. Daniel
Hawk is one of them, many of you should have that the other book
otherwise for you know is a sent to Felicity, right? This has all
of the Messiah, of prayer and of purity. So you need to make sure
that you're quite clean, because you could be doing a wonderful
Tarawih prayer, but you could be essentially impure. Now, if you do
have any impurity on your clothing,
usually what they usually what the understanding is that if you've
got more impurity than the concave of your pants, so if I was to put
my palm up like this, under a tap, and then move it away, how much
water would remain in my palm, it probably be about four centimeters
diameter.
So that's a lot to be honest. But where you are, where you could
have removed it, and you didn't your Salah to become undesirable,
which means you're messing up everybody's prayer. So the prayer
would be valid. But if it goes over this amount,
then your prayer would be invalid. So you could do 20 Records
beautifully, but your prayer would be invalid. If you've got more
than that impurity, less than that, it still be mcru it still be
undesirable. You want to be as clean as possible, right? You want
to be clean. That's because cleanliness is half of faith. And
then purity of intention, why am I doing this? I've already discussed
a bit of that for the sake of Allah. And I'm so thankful that
Allah has chosen me. If you remember that, then it's easier
not to show off. Allah is the One who gave me this. He allowed me to
complete Allah reward my parents are pushing me if that's the case,
Allah be thanked for and be praised for the fact that I can do
this. And I can do this well enough. And I was chosen, right
out of 1000s of people, children like me or young people like me to
lead the prayer.
And when you keep Allah in mind, it just makes life so much easier.
That's purity of intention, and then focus on Allah rather than on
the on the people.
So
then the other thing is removing unwanted hair that needs to be
removed, right from the regions of the body that needs to be
cleansed. Likewise, keeping the nails clipped and being well
groomed in general because you're leading the prayer you don't want
people to criticize for no reason and feel bad because they say the
Imam must be such that he shouldn't make people feel like
who am I praying behind?
You know, doing some crazy things or weird things that people
because at the end of the day, you must represent the best of it.
People
Okay, number two was essentially the purity of clothing and how to
use the toilet and how to clean. So once that's all done, number
three is you have to learn the relevant rulings of purity of
namaz and prayer and of environment. And that would be
multiple things you'd have to learn. But that's why you're being
here. And we're being here together, that's exactly what
we're doing.
So we've tried to compile together all of the relevant rulings. So
inshallah in these next hours, we should get that all done, right.
However, try to get these books and read through them for
yourself, because when you hear it twice or thrice, you will pick up
on what's more relevant to you. Number four, we're going to
discuss a number of things. The next points are essentially about
how to overcome nervousness, how to get over the fear of mistakes,
these are very real can mess up your whole day. You know, it's the
whole day, you're worried about what's going to happen in the
night. And then it happens. And then you're worried about what
happened.
The confident people don't do that. So how do you get over
nervousness? Now, I can't tell you about everything, right? I'm sure
you have your own experiences, or of how you overcame your
nervousness, or you might be your first year. So I'm willing to hear
from you if you've got a technique on that. So if you've got some
special pills or special herbs that can get rid of nervousness,
I'm sure there is a number of things like L theanine and
ashwagandha. And these different herbs that you could take to just
calm you down and just focus. They could have Red Bull is probably a
bad idea. Okay. And anything like that Lucozade sports, this is all
artificial sugar, right? So you don't want to do that. Because I
see, somebody's got a Lucozade sport already. Mashallah. With
him, you can bring him now it's okay.
But I'm saying there's better stuff out there, right. And Prime
is I don't know about prime, either everybody's talking about
nowadays. One of the first things is that you either know your
stuff, or you don't.
If you know your stuff, you could still be nervous, because you're
an introverted individual. And you're shy of being in front,
everybody's eyes and your dad is behind you, your brother, your
uncle, your grandfather, and all these other uncles who are there
just to jump on you. And if you do wrong, and they've already told
you Subhan Allah, Allah make it easy, right? So there could be
nervousness, even if you know your stuff.
And if you don't know your seven, then that's even worse, because
the whole day you're trying to know.
So the main thing is try to know, and I would say no, it's a bit
late now. But try to start at least one or two months in
advance, it just makes life so much easier, that you don't have
to then
be worried about it on that day only, but try to learn it in
advance so that you're prepared. And
in that regard, don't just learn your forecasts worth of reading
cottages or whatever it is, that's just not the right approach
because then you'll only know patches of the Quran. For a lot of
people, they only focus heavily on the Quran Ramadan. And if you're
just learning a quarter, you know, quarter from Aegis better than
everything else and the other side, you might not even know you
can't even take a mistake out. Now, if you're really if your
Quran is really not there, then that's better than nothing. That's
one way of starting. So this year, take quarter. The next year, take
the next quarter. The third year, take the next one. That could be
one way of refreshing your Quran if it's really been allowed to
deteriorate your memorizing being allowed to deteriorate. But
otherwise, if you know your Quran generally well, don't just learn
your potion. It's so easy to do that but don't ever succumb to
that. First for a decade we've been doing usually
produce a day and we finish in 15 days. And it's so easy to think I
won't even learn one juice. But no I insist on reading both just
equally. I'm going to read one juice, my son is going to read the
other Jews and sometimes we spring it on him that he's gonna which
one of the two so he needs to know both Jews he doesn't always know
which is that he's gonna read I just stand in literally before I
even read this one and I have to read the other one we have to know
both just together if you're doing only one Jews a day you need to
know everybody's just meaning you need to know the soldiers.
Otherwise it's just going to be selective alright.
So read that whole just to somebody in the daytime. So have a
fixed time. And preferably it should be somebody who's already
have it or somebody who knows their stuff because if you read to
a nun have as they won't pick up the subtle mistakes you may have.
After your if you've memorized very well with a very particular
teacher, you shouldn't have small mistakes. But not everybody does
and sometimes was
Some people will take 234 years to get rid of very, very small, fine
mistakes, it just takes that time because you're just used to
reading something wrong and it's not being caught. So rather than
being caught internally always read to somebody after all of
these years, I insist somebody listened to mine, before I go,
before I do that, it's just feel so much better that you've read it
to someone, it's number one, number two,
in the nighttime, in the 100,
right, preferably, or if not, then in our been after maghrib. On that
same day, read it to you read it in two or four cuts, either to
yourself,
if you can find a partner to do the hedge together, then it's
allowed for just two people to do the hedge. So there's no problem
in that. It's just when you do a congregation that and if you say
that's my crew, but for two people to do dangerous if you've got your
brother, or somebody else, and you do tahajjud of your taraweeh
section,
and you will be already confident for taraweeh the next day, that
really works very well, what the nights were very short, but then
when they started becoming longer, that's what we used to do, I used
to read my portion, and my son used to read his portion, the
opposite portion, then in Tara, we would switch and do the other
portion that we revert both, right. So try to do that if you
can, but read to somebody, if you can't do it, then then at least
find somebody to read it to. So preferably find somebody to read
it to and read it to yourself standing in prayer because you
don't you read it to somebody sitting down. That's very
different from standing up and reading it. It's a whole different
format. So what happens is that if you're not used to the format of
standing up and repeating it, and you've read it to somebody sitting
down, which is a whole different format, you get confused when you
stand up in front of everybody and read it. If you can't find
somebody to read it to just read it to yourself, but loudly.
You know, when you're reading it in your own Salaat in tahajud,
read it loudly, because that's how you're going to interrupt me, you
could do it silently. But there's a different format in reading
silently and loudly. So in tahajjud, in your own private
bedroom, you just do it loudly. Right in whatever style you want.
You know, pour your heart out. That way you've already heard
yourself so you're not embarrassed of your own voice. The next day in
taraweeh, just think nobody's there, I'm doing my bedroom and
just do it. Right. So read it to someone and read it in your own
prayer, preferably loudly, if somebody can listen to it, praying
with you, great. If you can't find anybody, and your mom's willing to
listen to you, she can sit and just listen like that and then
mark the mistakes and tell you about them afterwards. Right, but
do it to somebody else as well.
Once you've done that, you won't feel nervous as much insha Allah.
That was the next few points. Okay. Then how much should you
read my one of my teachers used to send I follow the advice until
today told me like 30 years ago, 25 years ago, 30 years ago, that
make sure that in Ramadan, you read every one of your jobs at
least 15 times.
So the juice that's going to be read on that night, somehow you
read 15 times benefit of that is if you can read every job at least
15 times over your 30 days, you probably will not forget it for
the rest of the year.
Right? How do you do it? 15 times? Well, it's quite simple. After you
come back from taraweeh, read it twice.
As to right.
Then at any time, read it twice. Before After seven. Don't go to
sleep until you can. Now if you're going to school and all of that
kind of stuff, okay, you're not going to be able to 15 times maybe
that might be a bit more struggle. Then after that you wake up in the
morning, you do it at least I think four times.
How many is that?
That's eight times. When you're going and coming from the Lord,
you do it two times. That includes on your way to the home,
in your Sunnah prayers, and universal praise. After that you
just do Just do your Quran. I don't read anything else, just do
that day's juice, and you already know it so many times it's gonna
be repeating it two more times how many times that's 10 you got 10
done right? Then after time,
again, now you can adjust this however you want. I'm just telling
you how easy it is. There's two more times and then after maghrib
you can do it two more times. And then Tada, here's one more time,
that's 50. Now if you can't do 15, at least do 10 times you can't do
less than 10.
Your goal should be at least 10 But preferably 15.
Now if you're doing two pages a day, then of course you'd have to
do half of each. And you'll do 10 to 15 or both just altogether and
then you'll have to then carry on afterwards. But minimum read your
juice at least 10 times. Minimum throughout the day you marked your
own times that you want to do it okay. And then stick to that. So
what happened sometimes if I've missed one I've woken up late or
I've gone to sleep or whatever. I'll have to just carry on and
catch up. So
Sometimes it does, it does happen that you've missed it.
And you've only done it two times less than you fill that up at the
end. So that what that will count as is that many columns at the end
as well. So if you've done your if you've done every just 10 times
each day, you've done 10 Quran atoms in the whole month, but
you've just done a 10 by 10. Do you see what I'm saying? So that's
another thing that you can keep in mind. The other thing that you can
do is if you're commuting, then you can easily be reading, right?
If you have to commute to school, or work or whatever you can be
reading, and where you can't read them, listen.
But I think if you're a half as you should just be reading, to be
honest.
The other thing is that spend some time where you can go over at
least a summary of what that just means. The contents of that just
in terms of stuff See, may be difficult to read a full juicy
tafsir, right? Because that could take a few hours, but try to get a
summary. And there are many summaries out there. If you do
search for summary of tarawih you'll see it if you want we a few
years ago we did.
We did a coverage of the tafsir one hour for Aegis, so that'll be
an hour of your time. The benefit of that is that you have some idea
of what you're reading, you'll make some connections like your
story of Adam and Eve and when you see when you read what I know Adam
and Asmaa Akula you'll have some understanding, I'll just be
totally different to just reading without understanding anything,
because most of our alphas don't understand what they read because
they don't know Arabic yet. Right. So that is one way of getting a
better connection with the Quran. So you're getting a general idea
of what you're reading what each sort of stands for, and make a big
difference in your life inshallah. Now for you have to remember, when
you then stand for the prayer,
you make some so far and you ask Allah for assistance, and you ask
Allah for, for focus, and for for help. If you make a mistake, get
over the fact that it's a big deal.
Of course, if you're making tons of mistakes, then you're
going to take longer and is just doesn't know but making a mistake
is okay.
I know it's a good thing to to have an ambition to have no
mistakes, I understand that. But if you do end up making mistakes,
then don't be bothered about it. Once you can free yourself of the
bother I made a mistake. What are people going to say? Then it won't
affect the next part of your reading. Otherwise, you're like I
made a mistake. Oh, no, it's all messed up. Now forget it. So
you're gonna make a multiple more mistakes. I remember with me,
that's what I used to always like, I don't need to, you know, I want
to make sure I don't make any mistakes. And then I realized
that, you know, I wish my Quran was better.
But it's not. So why am I overly stressing about it? I make
mistakes. A human being I make mistakes, okay? I don't want to
make 10 mistakes, but I might make three mistakes. And that's okay.
Let me carry on. I don't want to spoil the next part. Because I
made a mistake in the first part. That's what I'm trying to say
don't let your mistakes be debilitating for you. Right? If
you can see a pattern of the mistakes you make, try to correct
them in the future. Like try to recognize what mistakes you make.
Why do you make mistakes? Is it concentration? Is it just because
you try to remember what's next rather than memorize what's next.
A lot of people make mistakes because what they do is in their
juice. They don't know the whole thing like sorter fattier
streamed, where it's automatically they know what's next, especially
with a shabby hat. What they've tried to do is try to remember the
motor shabby hearts.
They try to remember it like it's going to be this one here. Problem
with remembering is sometimes when you get stressed you forget what's
next. So stop remembering it memorize it. What do you mean by
memorizing? You literally take the previous verse and that one, you
read them together 50 times. So it's automatically what's next,
you do the same thing for the next month shall be when it comes as
well. So for that day, you just know that anyway, you will know
that when you come here, turn right and not left. Otherwise
you'll forget because when you're in stress, you forget what's next.
And I used to have this issue that I used to try to just remember how
many times in your life you're going to remember what's next each
time you want to really even have to remember it and go and refresh
it no just memorize it, then it becomes automatic and mashallah
there's some who fuzz you know, mashallah they've done it so well,
that they it's all memorized like fattier for them. Right? It's just
fatty. I've only just read mashallah, if Allah has given you
that that's very good.
Don't worry about what people are going to say is expect people are
going to say something so then you're not worried when they say
it. Unless they genuinely telling you something, then take it on
board. Yeah. So if you do make a mistake, stay calm and collected.
focused on what's next. Focus on getting it right and what's next
and moving on. Don't become agitated. Don't lose your
momentum. Don't use your rhythm, your speed of style, because once
you change your
Style,
if you're used to reading in a certain rhythm and style, and you
change that you make mistakes. Unless you're very versatile, and
you can read in 10 different styles and you can choose
whichever one you want. But a lot of people they know in one style
only, right?
And some people are so fixed that they know exactly where to stop.
And if they stop any other place, they'll get confused.
Right? You don't want to be like that, obviously, but you do. You
take care of it however you want to.
You will have some good days and you may have some bad days. That's
just part of life. Right? Until you get some experience that it
all goes without a problem in sha Allah.
The Quran should move the hearts of the believer. That's why it's
beneficial for you to read the Tafseer. So you will put more
heart into it. And he's supposed to increase us an email to
encircle and fire Allah subhanho wa Taala says, The believer that
of those, that when Allah is mentioned, their hearts become
fearful. And when His Verses are recited to them, it increases them
in faith. We've got that we've got that responsibility of moving
people. We need to move ourselves verse, may Allah make it easy.
If you get totally blank, and people behind you are confused and
confusing, you're more just going to recall.
Just going to recall, as long as you've read at least three short
verses, or one long verse just going to record your record is
done, then you can I mean, if it's not the next record, you can, you
know, I'm sure you will recollect your understanding. But don't
don't go into your record and then start reading what's next. Right?
Because you're not supposed to be reading and recall. Yes, while
you're doing Roku, etc, if it just in your mind, that's different as
a secondary thought, but you can't in Roku or sujood be going over
your door.
Right over what your source is.
So you can't be in then like, let me read the first five verses just
so I know. I mean, that's, that becomes a habit. You don't have to
do that. Some some.
You know, sometimes you get the habit that after every workout,
you have to pick up the Quran, open the page and check what's
next. But you don't have to do that. It's not that that is it. It
just becomes a habit. If you don't look at it, then you feel that you
don't know. And make it a habit that you don't have to look only,
you only have to look if you genuinely read something, and it
was nobody got it right and you're still confused and you check for
what you're about. Don't have to look for what's next.
Otherwise it'd become a habit. It becomes a habit, and you're not
able to do it. You'll be confused. Alright, so don't do that. Try
that you don't have to open the Quran during taraweeh it's all
done before.
If you need some water or something, don't hesitate to drink
water. Don't drink a drink. I did remember once I was there and
there was somebody drinking honey water. Now No, honey, what's that
supposed to be good for you. But the problem is if you drink it
between the four cards, you're gonna have taste of honey in your
mouth. And then with the saliva and everything that's going to go
down your throat and that will break your prayer. Because you're
taking a foreign substance in prayer. Do you want to drink honey
water and then drink some clear water afterwards so that the honey
is all gone, because honey is quite sticky, isn't it?
So no, none of that stuff during the prayer, water is fine, just
clear water is fine, that's neutral, that's fine.
If the room gets too hot, you see all of this matter so you know
learn what to wear. So that you're not going to be unnecessarily
bothered by your too much clothing to less clothing, or the room
being too hot or a smell like put some nice perfume on or something
like that. All of these side things don't let them bother you.
So then sort them out in advance.
Right now just going back to how to carry yourself and that they
just certain things people don't like in our massages. Like if you
do those things, they're gonna complain like short beards like in
our community mashallah they want everybody to be representing
themselves in the best manner possible. So, that's why
people cutting their beards and all that they consider that to be
you know, a major problem they don't want to pray behind somebody
they can say they feel sick, or and so on. And so over there's
lots of discussion about I'm not going to get into but you want to
what happens is so much fitna then occurs, your if that's the case,
some people will start complaining the father of this individual
which is very biased, obviously he's gonna start arguing No, my
son is right for taraweeh but man, he doesn't have a beard. It just
gets into such a confusion. So if you are going to do tarawih make
sure you have you know, all of those things in terms of the
clothes
thing that you're wearing.
Just avoid having people pointing fingers at you. Short sleeves is
another issue. To be honest, short sleeves. There's nothing wrong
with praying with short sleeves. There's a problem with praying up
with rolled up sleeves, that's the real masala is that you can't roll
up your sleeves and pray that's my crew. Short sleeves are not
problem according to the however, traditionally even amongst them or
they think it's mcru. So what you're going to have is you're
gonna have all of these guys at the back who don't know that and
who are not willing to even accept it. In some cases, they just kind
of stop. And it just causes fitna in Ramadan. So there's no point.
We don't live in a very, very hot country anyway. Right? So just
wear long sleeves. For example, I know there's just very simple
stuff I'm talking about. But I just want us to avoid any kind of
skirmish in Ramadan for no reason. If your Masjid has women, praying
as well, then you have to intend them. Well, that means that you
need to know you're leading women. So that's in your intention. So
you know, when you start, like I'm leading the prayer, right? Torah,
gods of the Sunnah prayer of taraweeh. And there are women
behind you need to know that there's women behind you have to
necessarily say anything with your tongue. But if you're totally
oblivious as women, then that might be an issue. That could be
an issue actually. So if your Masjid does cater for women, and
there's women praying behind you, or you're praying at home, and
your mother, sister, etc, you need to intend them. Intention just
means that you know, when you're when you're leading, that there
are women praying behind you. That's sufficient, right to know
that.
All right, so those were the practical, those were the
practical things. Now let's, let's get into some more specific fic
related masala related stuff. So we've already discussed the eight
and 12, so eight and 20 records. And I'm not going to discuss that
more. But 20 Records has been pretty much the HMR, which means
the consensus of the format hubs, majority of scholars have automa,
imams, etc. Throughout the centuries. In the last so many
decades, we've had a push towards eight and
in different places, right. So as I said, this is not our purpose
here of what we're talking about. If somebody is praying in a place
where there's only eight records, and they can't change that, then
you can go and do your 12 Records afterwards. In short form if you
need to, if you don't have much of the of the night, and you can do
that afterwards. Okay, now,
especially since two or three years, COVID times, lots of
questions about how young or how old you have to be to literary
prayer.
So mashallah, we've got many, many families who have Hafiz, who are
910 1112 years old, and they're not ballet, they're not mature
yet. They're not adolescent. Right? They're not adolescent yet.
So can they be prayers. So according to our sound, strong
view in our Muslim
children can't lead tarawih prayers, they can't lead anybody
in prayer, because they're not qualified yet to, in terms of the
age to lead the prayers, you have to be buried, you have to be
mature, right? I don't, I don't think I need to, unless somebody
wants me to add them to describe how to become mature. Right? But
yes, so you need to be at least so that means 1415, at least right.
And then you can leave the prayer.
If
there is a kid 1112 at home anyway, he's done, he can do his
entourage. So there's nothing stopping him from doing his own
taraweeh or her for that matter, a young girl or an older girl, she
can do her own therapy at home, read the whole Quran, she just
can't leave anybody. And a young kid can't lead anybody.
But you can do your own therapy loudly. And if you've got a mother
or somebody who's sitting there, they can even listen to you with
the Quran open outside, they're not praying, and then they can
just mark and tell you later.
So that would be one way if they wanted to do so. Number three.
This is very important. Let's just say you got late for taraweeh. One
day, right getting out of the house or something you had to
clean up or I don't know, you know, you had a stomach issue or
whatever, and you made it and you do the first tarawih for example,
you've not done Asia, are you allowed to leave the throw up if
you've not done your Asia
you're not allowed to that oh, we can only start after you've done
your Asia. Now the masjid is done Asia, imams and Asia, everybody
else but you haven't you're not allowed to literally because it's
not your taraweeh taraweeh has to be started off to Asia. Just
remember that, which means that you'd have to quickly go and do
your forecasts, then you can then you could miss your sooner pray
you shouldn't be but you know, if you're if you're in a hurry, you
do your forecast, then you can lead the prayer. So you can maybe
tell somebody as you do to counseling because you can't make
the homeless dude wait sometimes. Let me just do my phone and then
I'll join in afterwards. Remember that we only start after you've
done your Isha prayer, not after it's done in the masjid.
After you've done yours, whether that was with the imam or without
the Imam, okay, so Telavi has to be prayed after Isha. However,
what about? Now let's just say that you caught 14 regards or 16
records and you'd miss four.
Can you do the wisdom? Can you lead or follow the winter even
though you've not done all of your tarawih? So in that case, you can,
because you can finish that, are we after winter? Right? So you
could have a winter in between preferable not to. But if you had
winter, and then you had four cuts left, you could do those
afterwards. So there's no harm in doing it that way if you were
forced to do it that way. So hopefully, that's clear. You have
to do your tarawih after Isha four cuts at least. But Witter doesn't
affect it that much. Does that we have to be in a masjid I guess
COVID has told us it doesn't have to be you can do it anywhere.
Right? Literally, you can do it anywhere. However, the greatest
reward will be in the masjid. Because the masjid is where the
congregation is, the more people and the place being in the masjid.
25 to 27 times reward anywhere else is about 10 to 15 times I
think the reward.
Now, sometimes though, let's just say you're only getting for a cut
in the masjid.
And you would like to do 20 or 10 each, then you could do that at
home or somewhere else, make your own little congregation you might
lose some reward of the Masjid. But you get more reward of the
fact that and you might be better for you, in some cases, that you
can lead the whole taraweeh because it'll be good for you to
do the whole thing, because it's more preserving of the Quran for
you. Do you see what I'm saying? Right?
Then, can you can there be two taraweeh prayers in the masjid
simultaneously or one after the other?
So let's just say that
your father is a committee member.
And he's like, my son has to do tarawih.
But they've already confirmed five people and there's no space. So
then he insist that you do throw in another room with 10 people.
That's not really that's not really advisable to do that.
Because you don't want multiple Jamaats in one place taking place
at the same time.
Because that becomes like a bit of a competition and stuff like that.
That's not right.
Yeah, maybe in a madrasa for training. They've got people in
different rooms, all training for that and teacher goes around and
checks them out. There could be some, but in a normal message you
want one try. However, there are cases where we have in some
communities where we have restaurant workers who finish up
or that was in the you know, like 11 o'clock or 10 3011 o'clock and
they missed the taraweeh. So something like that where we went
out to Juma prayers because the masjid can't or there's just too
many people there's only one masjid and there's not other
places where they pray. In that case, they're allowed to have one
taraweeh after the other.
So you could have one Gemma finished the main one and then
they could do another one afterwards. Can you lead both
robberies? Can anybody lead to Therese? You've done 20 And then
you want to do another 20 quite ambitious, mashallah, that would
be quite adventurous. Can you do that?
So no, you can't lead to throw aways because once you've done
your 20 that your student is done, you can't repeat that. However,
you could join in on another taraweeh as a as a mock that as a
listener if you want to nothing wrong with that. Anybody can do 40
records of tarawih to Travis three Tara is no problem all night. But
as leading you can only do you should only do 20. And then after
that somebody else should leave the prayer. The reason why you
can't leave the second row is because you know once you've done
your 20 utar is done. So now when you're leading you're leading
knuffel prayer, optional prayer, people behind you they're doing
tarawih Tarot is stronger and higher than a regular normal
prayer. Imam has to always be equal or higher here you actually
lower because you're doing nothing. people behind you are
doing sunnah higher level of prayer. That's why you can do it.
If you've done it already. Okay, next question. Have you ever seen
anybody breaking their will do in taraweeh? Or in any prayer? The
Imam Have you ever seen the Imam breaking? You've seen it? Anybody
else? You hardly ever seen Imams never break their prayer? Sorry,
I'm not Yeah, imams never break their will do in prayer. They do
actually. Right? I've been in demand my broken at least twice or
thrice? Or actually, it wasn't breaking. It was more that I
forgot that I didn't have all those somehow. So what do you do
in that case? They're both different situations. If you
didn't have what do you thought you did? Because you usually have
it. And then this time, somehow you got there or you found that
there was a something sticky on your hand. And the wudu did not
you know the water did not get there. Something like that or
whatever it is. You have to be careful about that. Don't feel
embarrassed.
Okay, and our communities need to stop bothering people about this
that oh, they remember that for the rest of the
Live that this guy made such a mistake, this is really, really
bad. People make mistakes.
You shouldn't be scared and then just carry on the prayer. So let's
just say that you didn't have to do and you got to taraweeh. And
you let let the terrible you're in the middle of throw you remember?
Just tell somebody, apologize, go underwater and come back. So if
you didn't have although to start with that salad has not even
begun. So you were literally just making the motions. While you were
not really impressed. Everybody thought they were impressed. So
the appraisal accepted anyway. So you'd have to go and do it again.
It's one thing if you broke your window.
Now that there's a special scenario, and you should all learn
about that, because usually you have the other taraweeh leaders
behind, right. So if you break your will do when you do is you
literally turn around and grab
one of your friends or the imam or whoever it is, and you drag them
forward. They usually should take no more than two big steps. You
don't take three steps, two big steps. And then they carry on the
prayer substitute.
It's just a substitute. It's like you stop the car, put them in the
driver's seat and you went to the womb.
Do you understand? That's what you do. If you break your will do
don't like free county As Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah. They will
wonder like why you think Salam in the middle of salad for, right? So
don't say salam because you broken your will do anyway, you just turn
around, grab the guy, and putting forward and you should know this,
that if you're in prayer, and the Imam suddenly stops, turns around,
and grabs you, you're gonna be one. If you don't know this
muscle, you're gonna be wondering, what is he doing? I've never seen
this before, because he hardly happens.
I said, I've pulled people, like, I've done it once or twice, at
least, but the guy knew what he was doing. That's why they should
probably send the letters themselves. The people behind me
closest to me should be the people of intelligence who know this
stuff. So that if there's something that happens wrong, when
Obama or the alarm got stabbed, in that federal prayer, that was
going to be fatal. He's he stopped leaving and somebody abdominal
flooding or somebody else they came and carried on the prayers,
the same prayer, the people behind didn't even know like further
back, they didn't know, no, no microphone in those days. So
remember that. But if you don't have although the prayer has not
begun, so you can't even start. You didn't even start so you'd
have to then let people know and then you could probably just say
salam because when you say someone, people think you've ended
your prayer, they'd be going to be wondering, just make a very clear
announcement or tell the Imams up to me the announcement. Just gonna
explain to the Imam the Imam will make an announcement and you'll
carry on now.
We will leave it for the other section to discuss that if you did
mess up a Torah cuts, but you've read already like four sides, one
Surah or whatever in the do you have to repeat it again. So we'll
discuss that in the next section. Inshallah, we move on to the next
set of issues. This is really related to reciting specific
issues and challenges and complications and confusions
regarding
recitation. So some things I tell you is what we have to do, and
other things are what you do if you make a mistake. Firstly,
try to read Bismillah before every Surah total Fatiha you know in you
in each regard to read certain fattier first try to read
Bismillah we do it silently as Hanafis. We do it silently Shafi
is do it loudly. But even though you're Hanafi and you do it
silently, make sure you do it.
Our Salah to be valid if you didn't do it, but mashallah we
live in multicultural societies. And if there Shafi is behind us,
it means that we're missing a verse Surah Fatiha according to
Shafi school starts from Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim is the first
verse Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen is the second verse.
That's why we don't want the salah to become incomplete because as
representative Imam, we want to be inclusive of everyone. So there's
no harm in us doing that is there.
So at least before the Fatiha make sure we Bismillah you don't
necessarily have to read Bismillah before you read the next part of
the surah. Right, that you can there as well, but it's not
necessary, but you can.
I'm not going to tell you how to do the prayer. Because that is a
separate topic. I'm just going to tell you the common issues related
to tarawih that could go wrong. So that's the first thing number two,
according to the Hanafi school and I see the majority here 100 views
so acquainted a Hanafi school, while Bismillah is not part of
Surah Fatiha
and we have one Bismillah R Rahman Rahim mentioned in the Quran,
within the verses as a as a proper verse, which is in witches,
nineteen's juice in the human soul
Amen. We're in Bismillah R Rahman Rahim, Allah Allahu Allah, what to
name Muslimeen, one of the shortest letters written in
history. So the mighty salaams letter to bilities that's part of
the Quran that we're not talking about that one like if you miss
that you wouldn't done the whole Quran however, there's another
Bismillah. The Hanafi say that the Bismillah has been also revealed
as a separator between sewers. So that's why, at least once in the
whole tarawih Quran hatom You have to read one Bismillah aloud
somewhere and pretend you're Shafi. Maybe, right? See how it
feels to be a Sharpie. So it could be before Baqarah so as soon as
you start there is a Bismillah R Rahman R, Rahim Elif
me, you could do Bismillah. So usually what the half is is do is
they get together beforehand and they decide on a format of you're
going to do up to here you're going to do up to here we're going
to do up to here, you can also decide who's going to do the
Bismillah when it's easy, just to start it off from Surah Baqarah.
Just do it once it's done and dusted. Some people have exotic
place, I want to do it before Kulu Allahu Ahad, I want to do it
before you are seen, or whatever makes no difference. It just has
to be done in one place test to just start it off and just do it
and you've done it. So at least then that means that by the time
you do oneness, you would have done the whole Quran including the
additional one Bismillah, right between any two soldiers, you got
that it has to be done at least once between any two soldiers. So
some people just do it before baccara. How much should you read
in? How much should you recite in every rock art? Now that depends
on when you're going to finish the Quran. If you're going to finish
it on the 29th. Why can't I finish on the third year?
Because it might not be 30 days, then you'll be left with one
juice. That's why we usually that's why nobody finishes on
third year. Usually, there was one shake in the past.
And he used to actually tell the imam for tarawih on the first day
of taraweeh do two Jews or one Jews. If he said do two Jews, it
means that that Ramadan is probably going to be 29 days and
it used to turn out that there was 29 days do you have to call them
right?
And if he said just do one Jews, it probably was going to be 30
days because then they have 30 days to do it. Right? I'm not
saying that's magic or anything, right. But that was just he had
this ability to to figure that out. We don't have the ability. So
usually everyplace they try to finish on 29th. But you could
finish on 27th You could finish on 25 You could finish on the 28th To
be honest, but they prefer to finish on an odd night because
that's usually the two other possibility. So one is you get the
benefit of Lila to cuddle, you also get the benefit of finishing
the Quran. Because when you finish the Quran in sha Allah, that's a
great achievement do as I accept decision to maximize you
understand the theory behind now in some places, what they do is
they finish the Quran and then they are really relaxed in the
next days. Right. In fact, some people think that when you finish
the Quran,
you're not that always done. So that's why a lot of Mercy changed
from 27 to 29. Because when they finish on 27 The congregation used
to become like half or something because I've done my Quran. You
know, it's like mustard once you turn your corn you think you've
done Buhari, and you think you're finished now.
And it's just you've done the Sunnah of the Quran, but taraweeh
is still there. Right? And so you can finish it on any day. But
usually in messages they do 27 or 2929 is probably better because
you get to be more relaxed. If you do 27 Then you have to do one and
a quarter for more days, then you end up after the 20th usually you
do 111 is whatever equation works for you to be honest.
Now there is this idea. I remember once I was doing tarawih and I
read
you know when you finish
the fourth juice,
holy metallic home, I had to come up to that verse. While Masana to
Mina Nisa is the beginning of the fixtures, right?
They actually connected it's strange that there's a just there
to be honest, that just isn't from the time of the process. And you
know, the Supatra is not from the tundra, or from the sewers are the
superar as the 30. Division, that's a later development. It's
fine. It's useful. However, in some places, he actually cuts
between the theme the story as an ending that the clause the the
point hasn't been fully made. While Masana is actually part of
that. So that's why I usually finish probably metallicum to the
end of the juice and then I read well Masana that one big verse as
well. That's when it kind of decent place to stop. I remember
one of the committee members that came in they said why did you do
that? I said well, because it's actually related to that. So it's
appropriate, said so then I realized he's saying but there's
people
From other mustards who do the same format, they might have come
here to read. And now they're going to miss that one part.
Because in the other mystery, they actually stopped at the end of the
fourth juice. So then they're going to miss out well, more sun.
And
to be honest, what I thought is that that's their problem. All
right. However, I think we need to educate people about this. Now,
you're just if you're just young half is you're not going to know
this, but tell the Imam talk to the Imam. And if you do read well,
Masana together.
I guess the next day, you could probably just read from him again,
so that if somebody had missed it, you could be doing it on both
days. So that way, you're not breaking in half. And you're just,
there's no, there's no problem reading something double. Right,
as well. Do you see what I'm saying? There's no problem with
reading something double. And so that's one of the there's a few
places like that, for example, in the beginning of which just is it
that it literally stops at the end of the first verse of the next
Surah, which is is that rhodamine Alif Lam?
What is it
and if lamb erotica Atul Kitabi wa Quran iMobile Ruben I ever do
Larina Cafaro. So in some cases, if the on the previous day, you
just stopped at the store and didn't read that, that would be
fine.
If you did read it, it'd be fine as well. And then the next day,
just start again from the surah. So you don't have to start from
rubber mat, you can actually start from the Surah, because there's
one verse of the song is nothing wrong with that, right? So
whenever in doubt, do ask though, because you might get confused
again. So do ask about that. Now, because many of you have just
memorized the Quran, don't know Arabic yet, so you don't
understand.
What you do want to be careful of is where you stop in between the
verses and at the end of verses, because although there's a round
end of the sign, sometimes it has in some Quran, Allah Allah on it,
or something, which means don't stop here. Because the theme
hasn't finished, the sentence hasn't actually complete it.
So you don't want to stop in the middle of that. You're going to
close it and you come back, and then you kind of like start from
the middle of the story. Like literally in the middle of a
sentence. So that's why those of you who know the meaning you will
figure that out. And those who don't know the meaning that you
should go by those stop and not stop signs more carefully. Because
otherwise, for you, it makes no deal because you don't know what
it means anyway. Right? But people behind who know what it means it's
really, really agitating and awkward. And it's like, Man, this
cannot annoy like just mess my whole story up. And it's wrong,
that you read the meaning of didgeridoos to read correctly and
stop correctly. So you might have wonderful luxury because you've
been taught that exhume the meaning and you're not even
following the stockings and the cymbals. Your stopping is messed
up. And it's like I'm talking and then suddenly.
And then after a few minutes I start from he was gone.
Or was gone, what he's talking about in the next record, I didn't
do that too well.
Do you understand it just really confusing. So that just because
you don't know, it doesn't mean that you don't do it properly.
As I said, if you follow those symbols properly, so go and look
at the back of the Quran for what those symbol means and try to at
least know where to stop and where not to stop. And when in doubt,
ask somebody, you know that we have roku.
Now, the reason the Roku is were made from what I understand is
that if you were to do one Roku, for every record, you would finish
the Quran in 27 days.
On the 27th night, that's what I've been I've never checked it.
That's what people have told me, never bother checking that. But
that's what it was done. Again, Roku was not the time to promise
to loosen them, but they're very useful. And you know, you might be
wondering why on Roku is equal in size. Why are some big some small,
some similar, you know, like some are like half a page in the 14
Jesus like half a page. They wondering why because they're
thematic. That's that that cluster of verses is one theme that it
moves to another theme next cluster, and that theme could have
been long. So that's why the Roku will um, so Roku usually goes by
theme. If you do end that a Roku most of the time that we correct
because they do represent where the theme ends, that part of the
story finishes then another there's another discussion after
that you see what I'm saying? So that would be useful to do that
and where you're not stopping at a record and you better know what
you're where you're stopping because that will be where you
might miss up and confuse something. Now the camera that we
read, unless you know the multiple karate knew you are reading
another carob wash or duty or sushi or something right
I don't want to confuse you with the names but the Kira we read is
Imam halfsies Kira from Assam. Now there are three places in there
which are different.
They are like other Carroz and they are non standard in our
Quran. Okay, only three places from what I recall.
Some of you will know some of them, but there'll be some that
are probably, you know, people be confused. So the first one, does
anybody know which ones I'm talking about? God.
Okay, Bismillah in Nigeria is the easiest one. That's the only place
in the Quran, we are allowed to read what they would call med
school. Right.
In our lives, Elif Khasra II, not the old style of air, but that's
the place where you actually supposed to do it in Nigeria,
that's actually Bismillah he mudgeeraba.
That's the real in our style that should have been measured Aha.
However, according to the imala, Sagara, the slight inclination, it
should be measured.
And then according to the, the higher form of inclination is
measured here to push the Fatah towards the customer. You can't
read Magery here because that'd become Khasra. Or a Yeah. But it's
magic there. It's closer to the it's the only place you do that.
Other Carroz other readers from others modes of Cara, they do that
in multiple places, when,
for example, where Shamcey will do, hey,
we're not going to start doing all of that even if you have memorized
it from Akari. Unless you know the rules you don't want to do that.
Right?
The guys behind you probably jumping in like your camera where
you're doing anyway. But you don't want to do that. However, the one
place we do that is in Bismillah Himalaya you're at y'all know
that? I'm assuming? Right? That's definitely taught that one's the
easy one. There's two others which are more complicated. Which one's
a day?
Who knows?
Right, so in sort of use of this law that men are what versus that
is sort of the use of its verse 11.
The way we read it is law that men either use of law men either use
of that's the standard, most people would read it however, it's
incorrect. The correct way of reading this is that this is
originally law MeLuna. But they put it together. So now there's
two ways to read this. How many of you know how how many of you been
taught how to read this the various ways put your hand up?
Like up proper up? Okay, there's only like three or four, five,
like a minority of people know how to read that.
There's two ways or in one way is a bit strange look, you'd have to
watch them off to this because there's no way to hear it.
Learn that men
learn that men.
So you it sounds the same, but the reader needs to round the mouth.
Round the lips, learned that men in between, like you're standing
there's a lot that men sounds like
you're stealing it. But why do you have to do that? Because others
had originally was that men know now. So what we're doing is when
you say that men to make it easy to read, we have made it let that
Munna but we make our mouth round to display or to indicate that it
was Adama here
that it was led that Manana. That's one way to do it. It's very
easy, actually, you can try it out. It's very easy to do. Right?
Go and try it out.
For yourself, men, the men
don't change your tone. That's the first way to do it. So make sure
you do that internally. Otherwise, you would have done wrong, right?
You missed something out. The second way to do it.
Is that we bring it back to what it originally supposed to be, but
we only do 1/3 of a Dhamma
Have you ever practice doing 1/3 of a number of rubbish? So it's
something like this law that men learn that men are gonna not you
don't want to do full MeLuna that would be full that man No, that's
full, that men wanna say it's just you just touched the Dhamma like
1/3. They say
they got fancy posh names for this. I'm not going to bore you
with that. But that which one would be easier the first one or
the second style?
The first one for most people will be easy because getting that 1/3
Right? You do need to do it through the shape to try to get it
right. Okay. So the easiest way I learned that men either use of
right that manana use. So that's the simple way make sure you get
this practice, right. And make sure you do
With that, if that's in your, what you should be doing it all the
time actually, when you read Quran, not just in tarawih that is
part of your reading. That's how you should be teaching it as well.
Okay, and the last one is in surah to facilite. So the facilite which
is
surah number 41 Verse 44
Jimmy young Arabi
right it's a
Jimmy YOU ARE Robbie. Now there's a Hamza.
It looks like an Elif. But let me just inform you that anywhere in
the Quran, where it might look like a leaf, those long lines. Now
listen to this carefully, if it has a Fatah dama Khasra or sukoon
on the Elif, that is actually Hunza we call it an array for
looks like a database actually a Hunza.
And what is an Allison Elif is something that doesn't have any
holochain like color. You know, when you mix you stretch the Fatah
cough Elif Fatah Maliki.
Right. I saw the LF,
though.
That's an F. As soon as you got a
or
O or E that's a Hamza. The secret of doing a Hamza is that you have
to do the southern sound in order to decode the jetco sound.
If you start your nomas and you're like, how
low hamdulillahi rabbil aalameen you've missed your home's us.
There was no
Allah Al Hamdulillah you don't have to do it that pronounced like
Earl, you know, but you do have Al Hamdulillah your bill. Let me say
hamdulillahi rabbil aalameen A lot of people make this mistake.
Slavery komak metal Was that correct?
Snow on equal walking metal. Was that correct? As more or equal
more rock metal us that hums up without a Hamza you're sorry
without this
there is no Hamza that's the secret doing a Hamza so now in
Germany you you've got to hums us for Arabs is complicated.
Can't have to hums us around. Jeremy. You I mean, we practiced
it. So it's okay.
It's just a error because a NAFTA is as well as our Jimmy YOU r&b.
So what they do here is this he'll
they they simplified? How do you simplify?
Now this might sound a bit confusing. The first one you do as
a HUBZone proper Hunza.
Second one you do between a Hamza and an Elif?
What does that even mean? Well, from my definition, you understand
Hamza is that which has a sound. Elif doesn't have it's just the
stretch sound, it's like a smooth, you know, just strips down. So if
you're going to do somewhere between is called Bain and Bain,
half half, so you do half LF half a Hamza, so it'd be like something
like,
like this look, are would be full hands us. That's not the way we're
supposed to be doing this.
Can you see that? The second is just been phased in the first one
proper.
Can you see that? Again, you'd have to train under someone if
you've not been taught this properly, because a lot of people
don't, unfortunately teach this properly. So get it sorted.
Jamie, you you have to get that in as well. Jamie, you out of the
not? Era Jamie young, you can't do that. In the second one. You do it
without that. But you do it with a factor. Right. I'm not going to
train everybody right now. Okay, but go and try it once at least.
The secret is do the first one strong. And the second one just
kind of phase it in.
Jimmy instead of Jimmy and
Jimmy YEAH.
Those are the three places Bismillah Himeji de la MeLuna. Law
men, right number two. So the use of the first one is sort of who
would write verse 41. And the last one is
Jimmy noon, which is in sort of facilite verse 44
What is that? What is what what? That's the last page of Regis? 24
not 26 Right 24 That took like, that took the most time so Manila.
Now let's move
One speed of camera, what should it be?
It needs to be
exactly 27.3 miles a
minute. I'm just joking, right? It's like, you know, how do you
how do you measure the tone that depends on you. If somebody, I
would say that it really depends on how you read, however moderate,
I'll cost I'll cost the blue, right? Keep it moderate, keep it
moderate. And you'll reach, you'll take everybody with you, just
depends on how you read. And what people will be appreciating.
You don't you death the fast,
you definitely don't want to go too fast that you can't get that
edge read right, and you mess up on rules, that would be totally
incorrect, wrong. And sinful. However,
you can definitely go fast enough, depending on how the people are on
length of the night and so on. We had some tough years, you know,
because very small nights, short nights. So it just depends.
It just really depends. But you want to keep it medium. And you
can go as fast as your Tajweed will allow you to do proper
rolling. And you should go a bit slower than that to keep it
medium. You don't want to go too slow. There's some people that
really go too slow. If your Tarot is taking two hours, and you're
your usual tarawih in your area, I think a good tarawih including
Asia and waiters should be one hour, 45 minutes. That's a sound
Are we any less than that is fast, one and a half probably
acceptable? What do you think? Probably one and a half, probably
acceptable, anything less than one and a half, there's probably some
cutting corners unless there's some really special reader can
read really fast and be very clear. Okay, that's kind of my
assessment. I may be wrong. But I say one hour, 45 minutes is a very
decent taraweeh. Anything more than that is probably long, two
hours is long, but some nurses did. That's how they wanted. And
that's fine. That's what they want. But one between one half to
one hour, 45 minutes is decent, including with her.
Okay, anything less than one and a half hours, one hour, 20 minutes
is a bit on the fast side, this there might be some issues there.
And I don't want to make a judgement because again, there are
some readers who can read fast and well. But not everybody can. Not
everybody that has very few people can read very fast, like,
sufficiently fast. But get it all right. Right, that's, that's an
ounce. Right? So
that's what you would, you would probably look at, don't get
pressured by people. But if you are taking too long, then you do
need to probably speed up because if you're just very slow, and
people don't like it, you're just gonna cause them find a mystery
where it's slow, don't insist on going to a merciless, very slow,
you know, where you read very, very slowly, like, and I can't
judge you. But I'm just saying if you understand that, if you're
reading very slow, and you're in a mystery, where you're not going to
enjoy it, you're just going to be stressed. And it's going to be
people constantly talking about you. So what's the point of that
find the muscle where they do slower, right? So go according to
that, but if they want you to do faster than normal, faster than
average, faster than in a wrong way, then then you know, then you
probably don't want to do it there or you don't want to you want to
do it to the best of your ability. So do try to work with people
because people do have to go to work, etc. You know,
just keep that in mind. Now, there are some ways of reading slower,
and then there are some discretions like
non-fossil, right? That you can actually do casa. So, in some of
the muds, if you've not been taught this, then you'd have to go
and learn it. And I want to teach it to you right now. But some of
the medmen fossils can be short and not meant to say but mon mon
fossils can be shortened to a coarser one LF level, we don't
have stretch into three or four or five, right? So if you do want to
learn about that, because you've got a challenge in your place,
then go and learn about that. Right? And then maybe that might
help you might save a few minutes not gonna save that much to be
honest. But yeah, that's pretty much what Cara related. And again,
if you have any other questions that I have not answered, then
please
ask the question later. Now, continuing on from Kara, but not
to do with taking mistakes out. That's something that you really
need to get right. Because it really spoils the whole mood
otherwise, right? Number one, please have an agreed procedure
for sorting out mistakes,
correcting them and so on and who will correct them. If you have
Trigger Happy 10 Uncles at the back, you know, matured, retired
half who fires we're just waiting for you to make a mistake and then
just jump in all at once and like you know, what you need to do is
speak to the Imam and committee and say this is just too
stressful. We need a procedure. This is what we did when I was an
imam in one of the mosques.
If we said only, you know, these people are going to make mistakes
Imam first then him and then him. And if they miss it, okay, you can
take it otherwise we don't want people shouting from all over the
Masjid. The the most difficult, you know, it's the most difficult
Surah to do.
Yes. Because mashallah everybody speaks up.
So, you know, when you present these things, when you have a
format, when you're organized, when you announce, it just makes
life easier. And if there is still somebody who just insists, then
somebody's gonna have to take that person aside and say, Look, you're
not really helping the situation, you might not be able to do that,
because you're the leader, you know, you're the Imam, your young
guy, maybe get the imam or somebody else to do it nicely,
that look, you're just causing them stress, you just causing them
a hassle. But if you don't organize it like that, you're
going to be in trouble. Now, between the whole five,
you can
look into Illallah
you could have your little system that he was gonna take the mistake
out first, then him, if they miss it, then the third person, and
sometimes minor mistakes that don't change the meaning is
problems that you don't know what the meaning is being changed or
not, or, because there are certain critical mistakes where it will
mess up the prayer. It'll break the prey in some cases, if you
don't correct it straightaway, for example. So if there's major
mistakes that are Kufri mistakes, that you're sending people of
paradise to *, in the Lilina, kifaru mean, LT la machina phenol,
Jana mahavihara, which is talking about the disbelievers and saying,
oh, like us how would agenda that they'd be better paradise or in
the medina Avenue, and then you make them into us harbor. Now,
that's a critical mistake. And while some would say your Salah is
broken, you actually have to repeat it.
Right? There are other views that if you correct it straightaway,
then in a Tarawih prayer, they let it go.
Or minimum create it in the correct in the next records. But
there are differing views. And if your Imam or the scholars, they
follow the strict view, then you just have to repeat the prayer. If
you make such critical mistakes, most mistakes aren't that
critical. But they could be sometimes minor mistakes. If they
both are the MA The people who are reading, they let it go. They just
correct it later. They'll tell you in between forecasts, and you can
correct it later. You do want to eventually get it correct Quran
being read, okay, eventually you do want that you don't want to
leave so many mistakes in the in the way and you don't correct
anything.
If some What about if you're a half his class teacher, and you're
used to listening to people and then behind you say, no.
Oh, that would break your prayer? Or if you were the Imam and you're
reading and then No, no.
Right? Because that's what usually do. Right? So try to avoid, say,
if you said even Oh, no, your prayer would break. You as anyone
your prayer would break. If you're the macdaddy, his prayer would
break. Whoever said it. If the Imams prayer breaks, everybody's
breaks. That's the problem. If you're behind, and you say that
your prayer breaks, not everybody else's.
So be careful of that.
I've had a case I've done in mum, I've done taraweeh in America for
multiple years. And there were people behind me from another
mother who used to open the Quran read. And for them, it's okay as
long as they do it without major movement and things like that. But
it was posed a major challenge for me, because in the Hanafi madhhab,
the strong view is that their prayer breaks if they were to read
from outside, which means for myself, that means if they
corrected me from the Quran, and I took it, my prayer breaks. So I've
told them multiple times, but then sometimes there's just again, some
trigger happy people who don't do suffer. And they just take the
mistake out, what do you do in that situation?
Now, what they usually say is that if you know and again, Inshallah,
in many of the massage in here, you won't have that challenge. But
one way to deal with that, is that you listen to what they say and
don't take it straightaway. You then kind of repeat in your mind
from before, and then you come to your own, maybe because of that
prompting, but not directly. You could justify it that way. Right?
You could maybe justified that way and carry on. That's one way to
deal with that. Now remember, if you do make a mistake, you can
correct it in another account, somebody else can correct it,
you're the next reader can correctly it doesn't have to be
the same person correcting however do correct it. There is there are
some who have raised an objection that you know, sometimes what
happens is that if you made a mistake yesterday to small
mistakes, or what you do is next day, there's some profiles. At the
beginning they read just those verses, one verse from you know,
one quarter and then and then they start today's like what are you
doing? They wonder like, why are you bringing these little verses
and then you're reading today's Jews or something, and they think
that that's better or something however, and I'm going to mention
this because a lot of people don't know about this
according to
Measurement fatawa there's a whole discussion on this. It says that
God can be Makita your kiddo Nora Julen yet to methodical email
mominul whole roofie was at hand for either kinda lay little hotma
either, who, that in Makkah, meaning somebody should correct
what they've made as a mistake, like a little verse And the
mistake in there. Because in Maccha, they had actually
appointed a guy to sit on the side and or not necessarily sit but
after every, he's a half it if he couldn't take the mistake of
mistake wasn't taken out, he would actually write down the mistakes.
And then on the night of the 2729 whenever they finish in the Quran,
they would actually go through all of them first. You don't want to
do that. That'd be a lot to go through, most likely right and
they only make one mistake. So try to do it by the next day or the
next records. So that's there. And also, from the Hamleys, it says
that God has had gotta be Mohamed Abu Mohammed, he says we're in the
midst of the Hamburg Erica Lita team Mahatma work with Philip.
This is Musa have to repeat and finish off those small verses just
so the hatom meaning the completion of the Quran can be
finished and the reward be fully received for Caja Gera Hello Maka,
what? Was hairbow AI determined See, human is the word who use
mineral huttner whatsoever we're in can 130 be Hoonah. That day,
the people of Makkah Imam Ahmed and his colleagues and his
students, they said that you should repeat the Forgotten parts
separately to complete the Quran. And the hatom even though it does
spoil, and disrupt the arrangement, right, because next
day reading something else, and you're just taking a verse from
the beginning of yesterday's Jews, for example, it does do that a
bit, but that's fine.
And he says that this is what we this is what has been transmitted
from Ali Radi Allahu Anhu. And now nussey item in surah. He wants
forgot a verse, Mr. Verse from one surah some Murphy ethna l Kira,
then the middle of his middle of his reading, he repeated it. What
are the LM LD E? And then he went back to repeating what to reading
where he was originally, when he is mostly people won't know
because they're not half as they don't know what's going on. Right.
But is that you should you should do that. Now. So hopefully that's
clear now about that discussion. The last point in this discussion
is, if you're praying at home, you're leading at home, and it's
just, you know, there's women folk in there half is your mother's
half is your sister's half of the Quran, then, can they correct you?
So yes, they can correct you if there's nobody strange, they're
like everybody's just immediate family, right, morons. And they
can actually correct you loudly. If there are somebody else. And
there's a woman who figures it out. She just has to clap. She's
not allowed to correct in front of strange men, right? So she kind of
claps to show that there's been a mistake. And of course, she can
tell afterwards as well. But if you're praying with your family,
then your mother your sister, daughter can correct you. Okay? So
that's our Kyra. You're reading stuff done. The last.
It's not the last section. But the next section is 14 points of
mistakes of the actual prayer now and set that to sow. Okay, so
let's go through this quickly. You should know a lot of this.
Are you allowed to recite Quran in sujood? Or in the shower, when
you're sitting down just to prepare for the next? You're not
allowed? Right? It's not allowed fact if you do in the shower when
you started reading
the next you know, which I mean by any ID you said the woman called
him and you essentially forgot that the shahada, you didn't read
and
adhere to the law, you have to do that. That was the whole, right?
If you read just a bit, and just the bit in any of them, you've not
really delayed too much, then you'd be okay. But you don't want
to do that. It's still mcru to do that.
So you shouldn't be reading Quran in any way other than
understanding Russia.
Okay, what happens if you if the imam in his second regard the
second occurred, but he stood up
into a third regards? That is too too, too. So what do you do in
that case? Well, of course, I would doubt that.
Most of the time, people do catch you out because there's somebody
concentrating. But in the case when nobody's confronting you do
three records. Now that is, listen carefully here. As soon as you
find out that this is the third record, then go and sit down,
straight away. Just sit down. Allahu Akbar, sit down. Right. And
then do send that to Sam and finish the prayer. Why do you do
that is because you've delayed the sitting by standing up. Okay,
that's
Simple.
If you didn't remember, and you did recall,
then you remember, you can still sit back, you still got a chance
to sit back down. You stood up from Roku, you can still sit back
down. If you remember, now, you did a search there. As soon as
you've done a search there, now you can't sit back down, because
now that is the next record, that you've done the third record now,
in this case, now do a fourth record because there's no three
sooner record prayer. So there's no point finishing on three, do it
for
just carry on reading and do four. That'll be for a classroom. You
don't have to repeat that anything.
In that case, you've done four cuts of taraweeh. Together, you
don't want to do this on purpose. Okay, it's against us. It's
against the normal recommendation on the you know, however,
sometimes they let women they allow women to do this at home. So
that's the way you could say that you can't do a three record sooner
prayer, only Muslim and Witter are three. There is no sooner there is
301 records. So you do four.
Okay. The next option is sorry, this the so that's clear, right,
but you have to do something at the end. The next option is that
you sat down after one records happens a lot of the time because
you really confuse you're doing so many records, you think it's you
know,
usually it happens if you've made a mistake in how much you've read
and you've gone to next one and you're so trained to do recall at
this point or something like that. You're sat down in first record to
hear that and then you somebody said Subhan Allah, or you
remembered it depends on how far you remember. If you remembered
within the time it takes to say Subhana Allah subhanaw Bernardin
three times, then you could just get back up and carry on as normal
and finish as normal, no problem. That much delay is tolerated less
than that. But if you sat for Subhan, Allah Allah, Allah
subhana, Allah Subhan, Allah bit Allah, now you've delayed the
standing. So you would still stand, but then you have to do
said that you suffer at the end, because you're delayed. Okay, that
so I think that's done. Now, what happens if you broke a prayer for
the prayer broke?
Because you made a major mistake and didn't change it. So you have
to repeat that or you did three records and stopped. Or you did
one record and then salaam as well, Mashallah.
That means whatever you read in that one record, is that counted?
Because at the end, you have to finish the whole Quran off in the
taraweeh, as well. So is that one regard Kyra counted or not? Or you
did three records is that reading count? There's two views about it.
Some say it's okay, because everybody's heard it, they've
done. They've heard a reading. However, it's not been in
taraweeh. Because that those records were spoiled. So best to
always do it again. That's the better view. That's the more sound
of you that you just have to do it again, it's going to take another
five, seven minutes of therapy for that day, you might listen to a
few things, but
it happens, right? It happens once or twice in Ramadan, it's okay.
Right. And
it's sooner to finish one. That's why it's so hard to finish on them
internally. That's we learned that from Amara, the Allah one. In some
places, what they do is to try to save time they do that, and then
they do something with it as well. Right. And some initials, well,
it's not the best way to do it. Right. But it's better than
nothing. But it's not the way to do it. That's not the way we do
it. And
if you missed Durood, Sharif, should Allahumma Salli ala
Muhammad, Muhammad, it won't spoil the prayer, but it will be
deficient, right. You don't want to you don't want to miss those on
purpose like to hear the shadow line on the slide when he wants to
lay you don't want to do that. You need to do those. And were to do
so that is our there's multiple ways to do this, I'm not going to
go through all of the it's essentially where you do
centrosomal Is if you miss if you delay a fourth of the prayer,
or you delay a wajib of the prayer, or you miss a wedge of the
prayer, those three are the places where you do send the resolve, and
I can't go through that list right now. But you can find that in
these in these books and Danny will hug so do go through those so
that you know whether you have to do something to suffer or not.
You know, when you're supposed to do tarot cards, and you stood up
into the third by mistake,
because you've stood up fully, that means you stood up, you're
delayed. So that means you'd have to sit there so even if you sit
back down, if you stood up half in a way that you're closer to
sitting and your back is not fully straight, right or is still kind
of going and you just stood up a bit, you're gonna sit down no
problem. But if you kind of have more closer to standing, it's like
you stood up.
If you started Fatiha silently you thought it was I don't know some
other numbers and use this handy.
If it's less than three verses, you're fine. You can just start
being loud. But if it's more than three verses, you have to decide
the result.
Right
likewise, if you had started and then you was so nervous about your
hips, you forgot that Yeah. And you just jumped into the next
grant reading. And you read, you'd have to do you can do study. So
you can go back, read fattier, and then read that you have to do
study. So if it's
three verses, they're right, in that one as well
may increase short versus otherwise, one long verse is
massive three verses, you can't wait for that. Just the that much.
And, you know, if you made a mistake, or you're confused, and
you stay silent, now remember this, if you stay silent, nobody's
saying anything, and you stay silent for three Subhanallah you'd
have to do sedusa. Because in standing, you can't be silent for
more than that. For less than that, it's okay. So what should
you do if you do get confused, and you're just repeat something under
your breath, read something under your breath, that would just
irrelevant if you're not reading aloud, read something under your
breath so that you're not pausing fully for three SubhanAllah. All
right. And
let's just finish this point of should you announce that the to
Tila in the first or the second recall? We're going to do a stage
that to tell our should you announce it or not?
Who says yes.
Who says no.
It just depends on your masjid, I wouldn't get people used to doing
that. In the masjid I've read or read, let me just do it, they
should know that you do. So just do your you know, usually for ruku
Allahu Akbar. If you are going to go in search, though, you know,
they said that to Tila, I would just say Allah
so that people know that this is a special search that I'm you know,
going into, right? So it's up to you, you can announce it if you
want.
That's fine, if that's what you do. But then one day you forget,
there's going to be confusion. So I just get them used to not doing
it. But that's up to you said that Rutila
needs to be done within
about three verses. So if you've read this tilava Verse and
finished it up to where it says the center.
And then you read another verse,
you still have an opportunity to go in and do a special search for
it up to about three or four verses.
I'm not going to go into full detail of that right now. What I
want to mention is that some of you may know that if instead of a
special search that you just did the ruku of the salaat, then that
would be acceptable.
And if not that, then when you're going to search the of the Salah
itself and you didn't do a special search for the search the verse
you read, then that would be still be done. However, I would advise
that you don't do that, because there's more reward of doing a
special search.
Also, everybody doesn't know that it will get done by the subject of
the prayer. And you have just learned it in your first year of
the Alim course or something and you go and you try that in your
masjid, and everybody will then jump on you, it just causes a huge
confusion. However, it's superior to do a special search that
because you're doing an extra search, so there has to be
superior. Also, just to clarify that, when you go into Roku, and
you want to do that as part of the Roku, if you're praying alone,
that's fine, because your intention is to do research, that
would be fine for you. But if you as the Imam are intending your
sector to tell our to be completed by your Roku,
all of your followers have to have the same intention.
They're not going to have that intention, they're going to be
confused, to be honest, so then it won't be done for them. So that's
why I never do it in roku.
Just do a special one. I know sometimes it's a bit awkward you
do so you come back and you said yesterday when I can and call it
and formula he oversold and you read a few verses and you go back
down. But that's still probably the better way to do it. You know,
we have a little wrist after every four cards.
Would you read in that? So in many messages, they have the we have
tarawih Subhana Ville Mulki well malkos Subhana Allah is that you
will our medieval Kibriya will juggle routes but technically
there's nothing wrong with reading that but that's not the sunnah to
to read. You can literally read anything during that time, any
this be any dua in Makkah, this actually do tawaf in Medina,
whenever they would do another four cards, or two or four cards.
That's why That's why we came up to be 36 cards sometimes because I
know we don't have that kind of long pause anyway. So you can read
anything, couldn't do it during that time or whatever you want to
read.
Also, if you do see, and it's not your job necessarily but a lot of
the messages that have this Subhana their Mulki when whenever
they have a major mistake in there that you have to check that you're
not doing so
Upon arrival is it will allow Almighty Allah Almighty, which
means the possessor of Grandeur and Majesty and mate. They usually
have it written as Illuminati with a spoon out of metal means a bone.
So the one of bones, it's a major mistake. Lots of places have,
they've got they've got the traditional setup, right? So that
needs to be corrected, but again that you can leave that to the
Imam. Otherwise, you can read anything during that time.
Right, let's go on to the winter. Now. That's the next section is
about the winter. Okay. Now, the Hanafy position on the waiter is
that it needs to be three records done all together with one, salam,
and additional wood in between. Okay, that's the standard. So if
you're in a masjid where they want you to do two and one, are you
allowed to do that as a Hanafi? You can't. What I would do in that
case, I'll say, Okay, let's have a Sheffy mom to do two and one, and
I'll just do mine separately.
So try to find a way to accommodate but as a Hanafy, you
can't do two on one. Yes, there's some orlimar who have allowed that
to be done in Saudi in the hub, where you say, Okay, fine, pray
behind the Imam. There's various views there, but that's as far as
it goes usually. Okay.
Okay, another challenge that could come about is that we do do our
keynotes in our winter and in tarawih time in Ramadan, it's
sunnah and it's recommended to do with the ninja MA and not outside
of Ramadan. That's why we do it in in Ramadan. Now I've been in a
congregation before that they wanted a loud DUA
and in our mantra is superior to do a silent dua Allahumma Inanna,
Stein Oka you know, you raise your hand Allahu Akbar, and then you do
you do the DUA, Knut and then after that we do record and such
All right. So can you do you know, we usually say that our position
is the stronger position that the door needs to be done silently.
Okay?
Now I was in on one occasion, in our masjid, they actually wanted
it differently. So I said, Let's have somebody else need it. And
they can do it like they can do three together but they can do it
louder because they're allowed to do that. So usually that's what we
do. And then there's some other options as well that we came up
with at the time but
another thing that happens in Asia, the Imam does a slow Kira
in taraweeh. they do fast Kira. Come back to Witter. It's like
everybody's got time now. So they do slow Kira again.
I just don't understand that.
They rush you into Ravi, when it comes to it, and he just kind of
slows it down again, I understand why there's a reason for them.
So, I mean, I'm not saying do it fast.
I'm not saying do it fast. But I'm saying that if you are in a hurry,
in the sense that is shorter nights Alhamdulillah, the nights
are getting longer anyway, then I don't see any special reason to do
with or slower than the tarawih. Meaning if you were doing the
tarawih as well as the winter, you can do the winter in the same
suite as your tarawih. The whole thing should be decent and modern
anyway, with an entropy. But there's no special sunnah to make
the winter slower than the tarawih.
Do you understand that I don't understand. Another thing that you
should try to do is to announce that it's winter prayer.
Because usually after tarawih, in many massages they have done.
So the last reader of Travi they do a DUA.
Now that dua is not necessarily established from the early days
that they had to do either. However, it's an occasion to do
you know that people you want to use it so that's why they monitors
but it's not necessary
in my masjid, in when we used to do our after the winter,
so it's not necessary, but there's nothing no harm in doing so are
there. So, what happens usually is that when people get up, they
might think it's that are we again? So that's why it's a good
idea sometimes to announce Salah to Whitley Salah to retreat Yahama
como la de sala de Witter. May Allah have mercy on you,
is just helpful so that people don't make the wrong intention.
And they realize you're better off than they think you when they
think they interact with in the beginning.
Now finishing taraweeh, we've already discussed this the next
section, finishing data we've already discussed what day to
finish it on and doesn't really it's not necessary to finish on
certain days. It's up to you, whatever is convenient, however
much you want to read, and so on and so forth.
However question does arise is that after you finish your Quran
on the 27th 29th, and is the 30th day maybe, or there's days left,
would you read in that? Is it fun to read Alan Taraka to the end?
No, that's just easy. That's why people do it. It's just easy.
That's why people do it. Otherwise, you could read from
anywhere you could take sort of
To Rockman, break that up, you know, split that up, read that
sort of walk it, you can read anything. Instead another Quran
for next year, say we'll just start another Quran for next year.
I'm just joking, don't do that. But you can read whatever you
want, just so that you know, right? Again, just don't people
expect it to be a bit slower. I mean, I've been in communities
where you get the most people in the last few days, because they're
like Ramadan is ending, we need to value it. But the tradition in
other places that I see locally is that they've done Quran now. It's
just holiday now. So it's just whatever we're reading those
bonus, so keep it as short as possible. But you don't need to do
that. Are you allowed to take money for taraweeh?
Are you allowed to take a gift for traveling to do traveling? I see
some head shaking. But of course, that's what we do for.
There's a massive difference of opinion, the traditional opinion
in many of the photo books from the Indian subcontinent that is
not allowed.
So I used to go around the world, but I never, you know, I didn't
take money for taraweeh was very strict about it, even though they
were insisting. So if you are in a place where you're doing taraweeh
plus, you have to do other prayers, or you have to give
lectures or so on, then technically you could tell them
look, if you're going to pay me then pay me for this stuff. I
don't want to take with that I Why can you not take Why do those
orlimar say you can't take that I'm not going to go into a full
fledged discussion yet. They say because taraweeh to read full
Quran is not necessary in Dharavi.
And in the Hanafi school. It was originally not even permitted, we
take payments for
leading the prayer for teaching children. These are all worships,
why should you charge for that. But then they realized that if
we're not going to pay then people have to earn a living, there is no
longer
people who look after such Imams and teachers. So that's why they
said it's okay to take but going according to need, not taraweeh
they saying that if somebody wants to come in later, it'll be great.
But otherwise, we'll just read without the full Quran. So it's
not an obligation, they say, that's the kind of understanding
the other group, which I think has a sound view as well, is that
absolutely fine to take to receive a payment for it, of course, you
should not be doing it for that purpose. But if somebody wants to
give you then it's okay. However, even those who say it's not
permissible, then that would be like if it was under contract,
that I'm going to do therapy, and I'm gonna charge you 1000 pounds,
or 200 pounds or whatever it is, right? If an individual came and
gave you money, or a few individuals without anybody
telling them, they put some money together and sort of came and give
you you can accept that, that nobody was saying that even those
who say it's not allowed to make money with robbery, they'd be fine
with that. Because that's just not done. What they would not be fine
with the first group is where they make an announcement we're going
to collect for the whole fuss, and it just looks really weird to be
honest. Like I'll handle I've never had that done to me. But
I've talked to people where you're sitting there and they're
literally collecting money for you as though your son Taki. Right.
That sounds that sounds like really weird. Right? If they were
to just pay you like that without doing that, then that will
probably be more sound according to the second view as well. Right.
So I hope I don't want to talk more about that. But I hope that
clarifies. Okay, that's our that's, that's done for what I
what I had prepared. And it's possible that some issues I
covered quickly, I may have rushed some issues. I may have not
thoroughly discussed all issues because I can't have all the
issues in my mind. So now what we'll do is we will move on to
your questions. I've got questions online, and I've got questions
from our brothers here. So let's take your questions or
clarifications on any of the issues go ahead. So if in solid
you eat anything, or ingest anything that is more than the
size of like half a pea or something like that, like there's
something stuck in your teeth, and it was just like, like, for
example, if it was this big,
that would break your prayer. If it was a very small portion, maybe
like that much. I don't know if you can see that. That probably
wouldn't if it was stuck in your teeth and came out and dislodged
and you ate it, then you wouldn't break your prayer. Likewise, if
you had bubblegum and still had flavoring there, and then that
mixed with your saliva and went down is a foreign substance going
down. That will break your prayer. If the chewing you don't want to
do this, but if it was totally like you're really like finished
it off. There was no flavor in there at all and you left it you
knew there was no flavor still be mcru to have kept it in your
mouth. But it wouldn't break because no flavor going down. So
with honey if there's enough in You just drank it, then you Allahu
Akbar, and then there's honey going down your throat from the
rest of your mouth. That would be a problem.
All right. So one good suggestion is that for those of you who are
in school or work, you've got your lunch breaks, which you can't have
lunch. And so rather than doing anything else, it's a good time to
actually catch up on your reading. And you could probably do a lot
during that time. Do you need to make a verbal intention when you
are leading women? No, it can. No, in fact, no intention is verbal
intention is to do with the mind. So even your intention to lead in
prayer, you know, you, you don't have to have an intention, in the
sense that you don't have to verbalize anything. But you do
have to have an intention that you're doing to the gods, of this
prayer, of Torah, Gods of Tarawih prayer. But all of that doesn't
have to be verbalized, you just, it's in your mind. And that's
enough, as long as you're conscious of what you're doing.
You're not automatic pilot, when you just, and you don't know what
you're doing. Most people don't do that anyway. But yeah, you don't
have to verbalize any intention, by the way. Okay, so if you break
your will do in your Roku, in your search the, wherever you forget,
or wherever you do it, just say something, just you'd have to
basically tap the person behind you. So if they're in Roku, you
just basically kind of hold the person by the shoulder or arm and
just bring them forward. And as they say, this is something that
should be known. So if somebody does that to you, we'll go for it
and just carry on. So the guy will move forward, say, Send me Allah,
would you mind having that and carry on, in such that he'd
obviously have to make a movement because he's in social and you'd
have to kind of, he won't be able to crawl forward or something. So
there'll be some movement in there. What happens if you ended
up doing just one sujood if you ended up just doing one sujood
that means there's two sujood formed, right? in every regard,
and you only done one, that means you missed the front, if you
didn't make it up your your your Salah to be invalid because you've
missed the fourth. So what you do is you do an exercise in the next
records. Like if you stand up and you realize I've, if you've stood
up for the second record, and you realize I'm only going once to do
it for the first record. So when you go back down for the second
record, you just do an extra such that a third such that, if it was
after the third second, if it was, you've done it, you missed it in
your second regard. Now you're sitting down and just do a search,
they just say Allahu Akbar and go into search.
And then come back and do this. Read and then do Tasha said the
Resava.
Okay, any other questions? Yes.
kissing your teeth? How do you kiss your teeth? Oh, you mean?
What do you call that? Is that kissing your teeth?
Yeah, does that break? If it makes a sound it will break? If it's
done like.
Like, if you did it that way. That's a sound that's definitely a
sound isn't it?
Is to hook that's two letters. That
was like two letters. So that probably would break it. It means
saying that behind somebody.
You're the Imam.
Like an exists exasperated? Yeah, that will probably break it.
What is the best way to review daily throughout the year for a
half isn't how much
at least one juice the optimal is that if you can do three juice a
day, absolute, you'll never have a problem. Otherwise, at least one
juice, preferably by reading to someone because then you gave him
get corrected. If not that Then throughout your Sooners and
Knuffle prayers of the day. That's easy to do, and maintain it. But
you have to start straight after Ramadan. If you wait and take a
big holiday, then it gets rusty. And then it gets more difficult.
If not in your prayer, then just do it like that. Just read one
juice, try to build it into a routine. Like if you're traveling
on the tube, you're traveling by car or some time like that.
Otherwise, if you can actually sit and do it first thing before
feature after feature, that would be the best thing which would be
done if the mic system crashes and a portion of the country loses
contact with the Imam.
They can complete their prayer for you. You just do whatever you can.
There's nothing you can do. But it's for the people behind they
just can't complete their prayer. And as long as they're not God,
they're not going to do anything before they might explain. They'll
just do it later. So they just slow it down and they'll just
finish off. But that's why must you always have a backup mic. You
should never rely on one mic you should always have because this is
everything for us, especially in Friday
with your stomach rumbling break your salad
Yeah, know that stomach rumbling does not break your salad.
However, if you're letting go of wind it will. I want to mention
that sometimes people have a rumbling in the in the
interesting. And I've talked to a doctor about this.
And they said that if its internal, and there's nothing
coming out and it's an internal kind of because there's a constant
movement there and there's movements of gases internally just
moving from one place to that that won't break there was the
They will do. But if there's any exit of it, then then it will
break. They usually say by exiting sound or smell. Yes.
If no IV Dean and others mentioned the utility of shorter recitations
in taraweeh, is this the dominant hemisphere and that's not
necessarily the dominant Hanafi opinion. However, when there are
shorter days, then some mustards can have that for making life
easy, right for people who can't do the full one. However, if
they're all doing that, and there's no Quran, then that means
you're going to be missing a big sunnah. So you don't want to miss
it completely. Right? And where you can we insist on that. I've
seen cases in many places like I went to another country and I was
told to actually do my therapy in a very particular mosque.
I went to that Masjid about 15 minutes before taraweeh for about
1520 minutes before taraweeh they were sitting there doing vicar,
right certain of God that they had and they were all doing it. Then
they did taraweeh from what do ha till the end.
In between the four four cards they did after they finished that
away and then they did another set of cards. And I was just surprised
that Ramadan is the month of the Quran why didn't they just do a
Quran hatom I'm not against vicar. We love the vicar. But
the Quran is everything in Ramadan that our mache they used to
decrease other things to read more Quran other optional worships. So
as far as possible, you want to you want to complete a Quran.
Right? That has been our tradition. Yes, there's Lee ways
in some cases for certain people who can't pray and or don't have
much time and there's a 90 short yes, that could be accommodated,
but the dominant is that you should do it for the point made
earlier about how large the impurity would have to be to
invalidate your Salah is this for when the impurity has been
discharged during Salah no discharging impurity in solid will
break your discharging impurity break Shodo this is if there was
some remnant left of it on underwear or something then up to
that much is tolerable right the four centimeter diameter or
something but now if you are discharging in Salah you will do
will be broken.
What if the masjid you are leading starts Ramadan a day before you
Well, if you chose that masjid, you can just go with Ravi. Right?
You're not going to do any less. Right You're just that part you
can just read again sometime if you think that it wasn't done in
Ramadan, you can just read it again.
That does create other confusions but at the end of the day for you
that might have been done before Ramadan, you just do that part
again in Ramadan for yourself.
What is the ruling on rolling up sleeves mid arm?
You should not roll up sleeves just wear something with shorter
sleeves if you can't if you've got like some
itching or some issue, but you don't want to roll up sleeves as
mcru to do so in prayer.
I think that's all the questions that we have online. Any more
questions here?
If somebody is saving the beard
or shaving is the is my crew because they say that I mean the
way the understanding is that if you shave your beard openly it
means that you've done an open sin right especially in the Hanafi
school. So that means you we don't anybody who does open sin
should not be leading the prayer is Makayla Salah Tara we will be
fine will be valid though. Right? Even Juma will be valid behind a
sinner as well. Right and open sinner as well. But it's my crew
to make such a person that email, that's the complication
to the wind in the hole, the wind, the Olimar, right that if you hold
when or you hold going to the toilet, and you're struggling is
mcru.
It's usually my crew to do that. If it's easy, and you can hold
them that should be okay. But if it's you shouldn't because it's
distracting.
So there's one Sajida which is at the end of
Serato. So it will hatch end of the 17th Jews, which is not a
Hanafy place procedure, however, is good that if you can read that
verse, and then going to recall and such that of the Salah, so you
kind of time it so that you can do a recall and said that that will
then be done in the sense that at least we can't do a special sense
of that for that because it's not 100 feet. One, it's a Shafi
it's according to the Sharpies, so that's why you will do that. So
you don't want to do sit there with allowing Roku at all anyway,
because there's just confusion in that anyway.
Hamdulillah we are done. May Allah bless all of your calories. What
about terrorists, sha Allah and allow the sunnah to continue?
And may Allah subhanaw taala accept it was anything else Miss
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