Adnan Rajeh – Etiquettes of Salah 10
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The speaker discusses the importance of privacy and being comfortable during isolation periods, particularly for men. They emphasize the need for men to be comfortable and allow others to enter without harming their comfort, and emphasize the importance of being aware of privacy and safety for everyone. The men in the room are not supposed to sit in front of them, but rather wait for someone to come. The speaker emphasizes the importance of being comfortable and safe in a praying room setting, and the need for men to be comfortable and allow others to enter without harming their comfort.
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The Hadith of the Night, a collection of
Imam Bukhari, and the theme that I'm going
to, just maybe for another few Khawater, cover
just the etiquettes of Salah.
I still have a few more.
The goal is to put them into a
playlist and then get maybe some, turn it
into some form of competition for the younger
generation to memorize and then to learn so
that we have a good understanding of what
the etiquettes of Salah actually are.
Whether we're talking about etiquettes inside Salah, before
or after, because all of these things add
up in terms of the quality of the
prayer and the ajr that you get at
the end of it.
And this is a very important one.
This is what Umm Salama said.
Umm Salama tells us that the Prophet, when
he prayed, after he performed his Taslim, the
ladies would leave and he would stay in
his spot with the men afterwards.
And Imam Bukhari would say, and we don't
see that he did this except to allow
for the sisters to leave the masjid before
the brothers got up.
Now, my point here is not that I
need that to happen, because that's not what
actually I want.
This is not the point of this Khawater
at all.
The point of this Khawater is that the
Prophet, in his masjid, recognized that there was
a certain dynamic of how people came in
and how people left.
And understanding that dynamic, he had a system
to allow people to move in and out
of the masjid safely.
The point is that people are able to
move in and out of a masjid in
a safe manner.
So, in their situation, in their context, where
it was very dark after Isha, and there
were very few lights, and the way the
masjid was open, it was out from behind,
the Prophet, after his Taslim, would stay in
his spot for a little bit to allow
the sisters time to take the children and
then leave the masjid, so that the brothers
could follow, and they're not having Ikhtilaf outside,
and women aren't surrounded by men they don't
know, and it's very dark, so that wouldn't
happen.
Now, for us, it's not the same thing.
I don't need that to happen.
I don't need to sit here and talk
to the guys while the sisters leave, because
we have halaqat afterwards, sometimes the sisters have
halaqat, and the guys have to get out,
so it's not always the same thing.
But the point that he made with this,
is that he figured out for his masjid,
for his ummah, and for the people he
was teaching, a system that allowed for safety
and for easy access.
And that's what is important for us to
realize.
When we are coming into the masjid, and
leaving the masjid, and situating ourselves in the
masjid, that we are making sure that everyone
feels safe.
So men should not be hanging out in
the middle of the lobby, where sisters are
trying to get around them so they can
get out the door.
There's only one door.
The doors are right beside each other.
There's only one entrance.
So we shouldn't have people hanging out in
the lobby, making it difficult for people to
enter, and for people to leave.
And if you're leaving the masjid, and you
see sisters on their way out, you give
them a chance so they can get out
before you, and you can get out a
few minutes after they go in front of
you.
So it's an issue of just being conscious
of those around you, and what is in
their best interest, and their safety.
Men shouldn't be sitting, for example, with their
backs towards the sister.
I've had this problem a couple of times
throughout the year, where I have someone sitting
with their back to the wall, and they're
not facing.
My beautiful face is not enough for them.
You don't look behind.
You look up front.
You shouldn't be looking behind.
It's very uncomfortable for the sisters who are
sitting to have a man sitting and staring
at them while they're praying.
Your face should be up front.
These details are what you have to learn
from him.
He made sure that he told the men,
you sit around.
And this hadith is actually repeated in Bukhari
a couple of times, and Sayyiduna Anas says
the same thing.
That the men would not move until he's
left.
When he got up to leave, then they
got up to leave.
He was the cue.
Again, this is not what I'm saying that
needs to happen here at all, actually.
I'm not even suggesting that, but I'm just
saying that he had a system that ensured
safety, and ensured security, and ensured that people
felt comfortable.
It's comfort.
Being in the Masjid is about being comfortable.
That you're here, you feel that you're supported,
and that you're in a place that is
safe for you, and that you're able to
take care of yourself and those around you.
So we have to figure that out as
well.
For us, for example, in this setting, it's
the entrance and the exit, and it's the
lobby.
It's keeping the flow open, making sure you're
allowing the sisters in and out, without having
people standing in front of them, they have
to tap on someone's shoulder, or wait for
five minutes until someone notices that someone wants
to walk for them to move away.
So these little things.
Don't sit facing the sisters when they're praying.
Face up front.
These little things.
And the same thing for the sisters.
Looking for ways to make sure that you're
not crossing into the area of the men
all the time.
Little stuff like that to make sure that
everyone in the Masjid feel comfortable and feel
safe.
And the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon
him, in his Masjid, he had a system
that worked.
And the system was that after Salat, he
would stay in his Pradat, and so would
the men.
They would do their Tasbeeh, do their Adhkar,
do their Sunnah, so the sisters had time
to get out safely, get into their houses,
because it's dark, and then they would go
afterwards.
And to me, that just shows, because you're
talking about a time where luxuries and comforts
were scarce, and it was hard for him
to be thinking about this, peace and blessings
be upon him, for him to tell the
Sahaba that we have to take care of
this, to me, this is someone who's thinking
a thousand years ahead, literally a thousand years
ahead, in terms of focusing on the needs
of the people that are around him.
And we, a thousand, four hundred years later,
should be able to do the same, at
least to be able to recognize what's safe
and comfortable and secure for everyone here, and
make sure that we follow some steps to
make sure that that is ensured for everyone.
So this is the hadith I wanted to
share with you.
And again, when you read his hadith, many
situations, where we don't have the exact same
context, you have to learn to understand the
lesson from it.
The lesson from this is not that someone
has to leave before someone else.
The lesson from this is the care for
people's security and people's safety, and being conscious
of that when you're in the house of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, and being aware
of it.
And I think that's a beautiful lesson for
all of us to learn and to reflect
upon.
Inshallah.
Inshallah, the Islamic Max.