Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Straighten Your Rows
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The speakers discuss the importance of keeping feet and legs together in a row during a prayer. They stress that it is not a rule, but rather a habit that is not present in every culture. They also mention that women should not be alone in the row and that men should not be alone in the row.
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Another thing that just came to mind is that when we stand in our
sauce, that's another problem. It's the man's responsibility to
make sure everybody's soft is straight. Right? So nobody the
first off is, the first row is always going to be nicely tightly
packed. Because then what's the important thing is that the
shoulders are together. Because the previous lesson said How to by
eliminating
level your shoulders together, when it comes to the feet. Think
about the feet, you have to realize is that there's one
Hadith, in which the sahabi says, and he was a youngster, he was a
child. At that time, he says that when the Prophet saw some toddlers
to straighten up, I noticed that the Sahaba, we heard that
everybody put their feet together. Right. However, you do not find
this mentioned again, while in the Salah, you only find this
mentioned at the beginning to make the straight rows, there is no
mention of keeping the feet together in the solos, right,
absolutely not mentioned, in fact, in the narration of Abu Dhabi. So
in a good version of this narration, he says that I saw
everybody drilling their knees together as well. And nobody does
that. But what they're gonna have mentioned is that the purpose of
this was in those days, they didn't have lines on the ground,
you know, we have much much on a nicely marked lines on the ground,
then it was just pebble, sand, whatever it was, and you had to
form your own straight. So one of the ways that they did this was to
lift their feet together to make sure that they were fulfilling
what prompts that Olson said, but you will never hear that they did
this. And in the prayer itself, there's no Hadith about that. So
essentially, if somebody wants to do it, they can do it. But don't
insist on it. There's people who've gone on insisting on this,
and if if somebody doesn't want to do it, because at the end of the
day, the Sunnah way of standing, is whatever is comfortable for a
person to standard. That's what is the maturity, the Hanafi, and the
Shafi schools, right? Joining the feet together, it's permissible if
you want to do it. Right. But there is no proof that it was done
in the press. Because if it was done in the president, what about
in the ruku? What about in the soldier? How do you keep it join
together? Right, there is no categorical narration about that.
But it's one way of doing it. So what happens with some people is
that the person next door likes to keep his feet you know, slightly
apart. So the person next to him will keep his feet now even more
widely because he wants to join other it's not necessarily this
concept, that shaytan will come in between that more relates to the
shoulders, the person himself, not the feeds, right, because if you
notice a lot of people that insist on this, they're more focused on
their feet and their shoulders.
Even when they pray alone, they will be praying with their legs
wide, even when they're praying as soon as alone is becoming a habit.
Right. So as I said, there's nothing wrong with it, but you
must insist on it and and irritate somebody else if they don't want
to do because it's not necessary and no, it isn't mentioned that
it's necessary, right? However, the shoulders must be together.
And that is a problem that we have many people accept the first role
which mashallah because people recognize that there's lots of
rewards for people kind of trying to get in there and you know,
there's less space in the first floor because everybody wants to
get the first row after that. What happens is that people are leaving
people who want to be in first class
right? You know, just people want to be they don't want to be next
to anybody. So even if you come and the row is there, you leave
some space. I mean, don't do that. So brother, right. Be together. I
had that where women come to the masjid they're even worse than
this. Right?
You know what my wife and she's been she's she's mentioned that
they want this that's getting on different roles. Especially those
that don't go to the masjid too often when they actually call them
I didn't want to sit next to anybody. They want to pray alone
in one sort or another person yet another person here. If you if the
women are going to the masjid whether you in whether it's in
locker, McCollum or anywhere else, you need to be standing in row as
well. There's no first class here. Right first class is that you be
with everybody. The shoulder needs to be
touched, touching together. That's the main thing