Adnan Rajeh – Un-Recommended Actions During Prayer #7

Abu Dawood with a reasonable chain of narration

written by Ibn Huraira This is the final

hadith within the theme of makruhat al-salah

or the unrecommended actions during prayer They will

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them with your kids, make sure that they

know what they are so that they can

inshallah learn to stay away from these things

We will inshallah continue and talk about the

etiquettes or adab al-salah later on in

the year inshallah ta'ala Starting next week

we'll start sharing inshallah the shama'il of

the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam Within the

month of Rabi' al-awwal I think it's

a nice habit to maintain The final makruh

that I want to point out to you

is what the Prophet alayhi salatu wa salam

pointed out He pointed out two things, I'm

going to focus on one The other one

is a little more controversial and a little

more difficult to understand Qala Abu Huraira The

Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam For someone to

cover their faces Scholars have understood this in

different ways The way that I think is

most appropriate for understanding it Is regarding dress

code, it's not regarding where you put your

hands Because the madhab have different opinions on

where to put your hands when you pray

And the malikis don't say that you necessarily

need to put it down And it's a

reasonable opinion, it's an acceptable opinion within the

madhab And you can follow it if you

like to But the sadr that he's pointing

out here is regarding how you dress your

clothes Because the second piece of advice is

also about clothing It's about covering the mouth

So when you're praying you should be dressed

in a way that is suitable to meet

and speak And be in the presence of

the Almighty subhanahu wa ta'ala So you

shouldn't be covering your face You shouldn't be

wearing your clothes in a way where one

shoulder is covered and the other isn't Or

you're wearing a jacket and the hands are

not being You have the hands just kind

of lying on the side You're dressed in

a way that's inappropriate in the presence of

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Because you wouldn't

enter the room of a respected person in

that manner So it's a makrooh in salah

for someone to come dressed in a way

that is not proper Like they're not properly

wearing their clothing Or they're covering their mouths

And this goes for men and women by

the way Covering the face during salah is

makrooh You shouldn't be covering your mouth Unless

of course you're in a position where covering

your face is necessary for you not to

die Because it's very cold and you're praying

outside in the open somewhere in Antarctica in

the middle of winter But aside from that

you shouldn't cover your face And you should

wear your clothes in a way that is

suitable to meet And I see this happen

here a little bit How you dress outside

the masjid is fine How you dress in

general is not But when it comes to

salah try to make sure that you have

an alternative Or a way so that you're

dressed appropriately to stand in front of Allah

subhanahu wa ta'ala So you don't have

sadal and your clothes aren't being dressed in

a way that's inappropriate And you're not covering

your face or covering your mouth in a

way To add to that When you're wearing

clothing for salah try to avoid And this

could be seen as a makrooh Some scholars

don't really see it to be that But

I think it's worthy of sharing with you

Try not to wear clothing that have pictures

of living things on them And if you

do have something on top to cover it

So if there's nothing wrong with you wearing

a shirt that has some political statement Or

some ethical or social statement And there's a

face of someone Like I've seen people come

in with pictures of Malcolm X or Muhammad

Ali or something It's fine, in salah it's

better if that is covered Like it's best

if that is not apparent And that's just

regarding clothing in general A last meaning for

sadal and I'll end with that inshallah Is

that you shouldn't be wearing clothing that you

drag on the ground during salah Now you

shouldn't do that in general obviously But in

salah specifically that should be avoided Like you

should be wearing clothing that you're not dragging

on the floor during salah Because it doesn't

look very And that's why a lot of

my teachers They never wore a abaya for

salah Which is very common They would wear

a jubbah And it's a little bit different

Because the abaya tends to be much longer

So you're standing there, especially if you're short

like me Wearing the abaya and half of

it is on the ground Because it was

made for a tree of a person The

jubbah usually is a little bit shorter So

it doesn't drag on the ground And that's

something that Prophet Ali pointed out And it

all comes from making sure that When you're

in the presence of Allah subhanahu wa ta

'ala So when we talk about yawning When

we talk about excessive movements in your hand

Talk about having pictures in front of you

Or towards your qibla when you're praying Talk

about wandering with your eyes Now when we

talk about praying when you have to go

to the bathroom Or food is just being

put there All of these things are makrooh

Because they take away from your ability to

pray appropriately To focus And it shows that

you're not necessarily aware Of the status of

the one who you're in the presence of

during salah Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala So

all of these things that Prophet Ali told

us not to do And they're makroohat If

you remove them in your salah Then insha

'Allah you are in a better position In

at least revering and respecting Allah subhanahu wa

ta'ala As you speak to him I

hope that was of benefit to you Imam

Abu Dawood and Imam Al-Tirmidhi Narrated in

a correct way All of them in his

Jamia and Musnad Abu Huraira May Allah be

pleased with him That the Prophet, peace and

blessings be upon him and his family Forbade

yawning during prayer And that a man should

cover his mouth The Messenger of Allah, peace

and blessings be upon him, said Subhanahu wa

ta'ala There is no god but You.

Peace and blessings be upon you And blessings

be upon our Master and Beloved Muhammad And

upon his family and companions May Allah reward

you well