Adnan Rajeh – Etiquettes of Salah 8
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The speaker discusses the importance of praying in the presence of the lord, including finding a space in one's life to focus on it. They also mention the practice of praying at home and encourage people to fill in gaps and find their
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The people of the book say to me
words that I do not understand.
The people of the book come to me
to read the basis of the Torah, and
they use their languages, and the Hebrew does
not speak, peace and blessings be upon him.
So Zaynab went and said, so Zayd learned
it in 14 days.
And he used to go to the shoes
of the Messenger of God, may God bless
him and grant him peace.
So if the Jews spoke of something, he
translated it for them, may God bless him
and grant him peace.
So he was not like me, he did
not forget.
Sayyid Ibn Thabit, may God protect him from
them, said in this collection, this hadith is
narrated in a collection of both Bukhari and
Muslim, and it is narrated by Sayyid Ibn
Thabit.
And the theme is the theme of etiquette
of prayer.
And what he says here, peace and blessings
be upon him, I think is helpful.
He said, peace and blessings be upon him,
O people, pray in your homes.
So what he said, peace and blessings be
upon him, is O people, pray in your
homes.
The best prayer for a person is their
prayer in their homes, aside from the maktouba.
Maktouba as in the faridah.
So aside from the faridah, specifically for men,
it is praying in the masjid that is
better.
Fajr, dhuhr, asr, maghrib, isha.
It is better.
But the best salah after that is at
the house.
And the ulema pointed out a few exceptions
as well.
And they said janazah, obviously, is better to
pray in the masjid.
Taraweeh and Ramadan is better to pray in
the masjid.
Khusoof and khusoof is better to pray in
the masjid.
So they pointed out a few salawat that
is best to happen in jama'ah within
the masjid.
But what he is talking about, the majority
of the understood and what we understand, is
that your sunnah is best done in the
masjid.
Best done at home, forgive me.
Now, that being said, it is very reasonable
for you to pray sunnah in the masjid
because you feel like if you go home
you probably won't do it.
However, if you are in a masjid and
it is loud, and people are talking, instead
of getting upset at them, instead of asking
them to get out so you can pray
your sunnah, maybe follow his hadith and let
them continue to socialize and go pray at
home.
And that way the masjid continues to be
a community center for these human beings.
And I am saying that after I have
told people yesterday, that if after you see
someone praying and you are chatting, maybe lower
your voice or take a step away so
you don't bother them when they are praying.
But it has to go both ways as
well.
The sunnah, the actual sunnah of the Prophet
is that the sunnah is prayed at home.
It is not at the masjid.
You pray in the masjid and then you
go home and you have a small space
in the house where you pray.
And everyone should have that.
You should have a little space in the
house where it is specifically for sunnah.
So you and your family do salawat and
you can't make it to the masjid.
And that is where you do your qiyam
and do your sunnah.
When you are at home or when you
are sick.
But this is the actual teachings of him.
That the sunnah is best prayed at home.
And these are specifically sunnahs that happen after
salawat.
Because obviously you can't pray the sunnah at
home.
You are going to come and pray it
in the masjid.
It doesn't make sense to do otherwise.
But you can pray, for example, al-fajr.
Sunnat al-fajr at home.
And this is a very known practice of
his.
He would pray sunnat al-fajr at home
and then come to the masjid and pray
fajr right away.
So he took care of this and he
taught us this.
And I am saying that just in case
you are someone who commits to sunnah insha
'Allah and adheres to it.
But then there is noise or people speaking.
Young men and children.
Maybe instead of getting upset and yelling at
them.
And walking away and filing a complaint with
me later or something.
Just pray at home.
Life can continue where everyone is happy and
doesn't have to get into a problem.
And just something to think about here.
When it comes to masjid and the effect
that the distance that people have generated towards
masjid.
When I look at the youth and I
look at my younger brothers and sisters and
how far away they are from a masjid.
And how they can go months upon months
upon months and never come to a masjid.
And not feel anything is missing them.
I don't understand that.
I don't.
I don't.
I don't understand.
I don't understand.
How could you live for a few weeks
and not go to a masjid?
How do you function that way?
It's hard.
But the fact that they're okay with it
means that there's something that is fundamentally missing
in their lives.
And they don't even know it's missing.
And we have to make sure that we
put in the effort to help them acknowledge
what's missing.
And then help them actually fulfill that.
And fill in the gap and find their
space here.
Which means everyone has to be a bit
more chill.
In general about these things.
And know what he taught.
Because when you find out what he taught.
You'll think oh there's actually more flexibility than
I'm aware of.
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