Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Straighten Your Rows

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