Adnan Rajeh – Un-Recommended Actions During Prayer – Being distracted – Lack of Focus
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Salli wa sallim wa barak ala nabiyyina wa
habibina muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma
'een wa ba'd Yarwi al-imam al-bukhari
fi sahihihi ana aisha ta ummi al-mu'mineen
radiallahu anha qalat The hadith tonight is a
collection of Imam Bukhari narrated to us by
Sayyida Aisha radiallahu anha And the theme of
makruhat al-salah or the unrecommended actions within
prayer is what I'm going to conclude insha
'Allah tomorrow and then we will start next
week insha'Allah with the shama'il of
Sayyidina wa Habibina Rasool Allah alayhi salatu wa
salam as the month dictates as such But
I do have two more makruhat that I
think it's worthy to point out to you
or for you Again, if you study, depending
on what madhhab you study, you'll find a
different list of makruhat, of unrecommended actions There
are similarities, obvious, but there are different lists
I'm not interested in giving you a full
list, I'm just going to point out, I'm
trying to point out the ones that are
most relevant and that occur most often from
my experience or from my observations And they'll
be put into a playlist and put on
YouTube for you to kind of share with
people or your children if they want to
learn more about this Tonight, the nature of
the makruh is different than everything I've shared
with you up till now Everything I've shared
with you up till now has been mechanical,
something that is technical, something that is based
on movement, meaning don't move your, don't fuss
too much and move your arms, don't wander
with your eyes, don't yawn, these are the
types Tonight is a little bit different Aisha
said, I asked the Prophet about iltifat Iltifat
is not really moving your head, even though
that's what we use it for, but what
she's asking about here was not actually that
Because she talks about this in other ahadith
and she uses different phrases for it, and
the Prophet used different phrases for it Here
in iltifat, what she's asking for is when
you get distracted, meaning when you're no longer
focusing on the one that you're speaking to
When you're no longer in the same du
'a, when you're standing, when you make takbeer
and you start reading Fatiha then you taltifat,
meaning now you start thinking about your day
You think about something that happened earlier, or
is going to happen later, or a problem
that occurred, or someone that you yelled at
you, or someone that you yelled at, or
something that happened So you're no longer actually
speaking to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, you
know, it's iltifat It's as if I'm becoming,
I mean, wa lillahi ma thul a'la
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has the exalted
example For example, if I came up to
you and I shook your hand and I
was talking to you, and then I start
talking to someone else, that's called iltifat, and
that's what it is, meaning I'm no longer
focused on the person that I'm having the
conversation with and I'm talking to someone else
And in Salah, wa lillahi ma thul a
'la, it's very similar, is when you have
iltifat, is when you're no longer speaking to
the one you're speaking to It's not apparent,
I don't see it, if I'm standing there
watching you, I won't see it, but it's
happening on a subconscious or on a psychological
level, a spiritual level, where you're no longer
speaking to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala And
that's what Aisha asked the Prophet ﷺ about,
iltifat, that I get distracted, I'm no longer
focused, I'm losing my, I lost my train
of thought, I lost my, I start thinking
about something else, the ful that I had
before, the batata I'm going to have later,
something that I'm not focused anymore, so when
he said ﷺ, this is the answer, qala
innama huwa ikhtilasun yakhtalisuhu al-shaytaani min salati
al-abd All it is, it's ikhtilas, fiqh
is a word that has importance, it has
significance in fiqh, because sariqa is when I
steal something from hirzil mithil, where it is
properly hidden, meaning it's a break in entry,
and then a steal, ikhtilas is embezzlement, ikhtilas
what it is, is embezzlement, that's what it
is, it's when you take something that is
open, it's public fund, and that's what ikhtilas
is, and it's as if the Prophet ﷺ
is saying that your salah, if you don't
protect it, it becomes something that's exposed to
shaytaan, he can just embezzle something, he can
just * and run with it, because you
did not protect it, his choice of word
here ﷺ is miraculously accurate, had he used
any other word, like using ghasub or nuhba
or sariqa, it wouldn't have the symbolism that
the word ikhtilas does, because what he's telling
you is that you did not protect this,
you left it open, so shaytaan had the
ability to embezzle something and * it, if
you protected it, which is what you're supposed
to do in salah, you protect your salah
from shaytaan's grasp to actually take away something
from him, he wouldn't have the ability, he
can't steal from you, but he can embezzle,
he can't steal, he doesn't have the ability
to steal, but he can embezzle, if you
leave it open, he'll do it, if you
are not focused, if you enter salah not
knowing that shaytaan is waiting for you to
put your guard down so he can go
and * away everything good from your prayer,
if you don't understand that, so you put
your guards up and you put your walls
up and you focus and you deny shaytaan
any access into your heart or mind during
salah, he will take everything that he can
*, and that's what Isa pbuh answered, huwa
ikhtilasun, it's an embezzlement that shaytaan will take
from the prayer of abd, salallahu alayhi wa
sahbihi wa sallam ajma'een, to me, wallahi
I share with you, they always ask why
do you keep on doing a hadith, wallahi
it's because the prophet alayhi salatu wa salam
is amazingly precise and accurate in his words,
like I am taken, I am breathtaking by
his Arabic linguistic abilities, I'm sorry if I
don't do a very good job at making
sure that you can feel the same way,
but he is so accurate with the words
that he uses when he chooses to speak
about something that I don't even know if
the people who heard it all, they all
got it, like they all were able to
appreciate how accurate he was when he used
one word and not the other, alayhi salatu
wa salam, and I feel like I want
to share that with you so that you
appreciate the genius of what Muhammad salallahu alayhi
wa sallam was, because that's how I see
him, to me he's a genius who walked
this earth, like an interest of mine kind
of growing up was reading about geniuses, I
still do it, I still buy, whenever there's
a book someone writes about a historic figure
that they thought was a genius, I'll buy
the book and I'll read it, and I
always found it to be, I was always
connected to people who just had that, and
the more I studied, you see because that's
not how he's presented to you alayhi salatu
wa salam growing up, the more I studied
him alayhi salatu wa salam, the more what
I found about him that stayed with me
is his genius, there's piety and there's leadership
and there's compassion and there's love and there's
prophecy, but then there's this aspect of him
where he was just, he was just a
genius alayhi salatu wa salam, he just knew,
he just had a philosophy about life, and
he conveyed it in the most beautiful way
that no philosopher was able to convey their
way of seeing the world as he did
alayhi salatu wa salam, try reading the words
of Plato, go ahead, read Ibn Rushd, everyone's
all happy about Ibn Sina, we're very proud
of him, read his work, I dare you,
I double dare you to read Muqaddimah ibn
Khaldun, read their work, if you can read,
if you are able to read the Muqaddimah,
I will do a hafla for you here,
I'll have like a full, read the whole
thing and you'll have a dinner on your
honour in this place, people will read the
first chapter of a book and then leave
the book and just stare at it as
they walk by it, but to read the
words of philosophers and thinkers is very difficult,
it's very hard to actually grasp what they're
saying, but then you read the words of
Muhammad salallahu alayhi wa sallam, and they're just,
they're a different nature, he just thought differently,
he spoke differently, and he conveyed his ideas
alayhi salatu wa salam differently, and it's why
I like to share these hadiths with you,
because I feel like there's something in them
that I just find to be majestic and
miraculous and beautiful, and I want you to
be able to see it as well, so
that's the makrooh that I want to share
with you today, it's more of a spiritual
one, it's makrooh in salah, it's unrecommended in
salah, for you to lose your focus, and
for you to speak to someone else, aside
from the Almighty, who has invited you to
His presence and allowed you to stand in
front of Him and speak, it's rude, it's
not respectful, so that iltifat that happens when
you lose your focus, that's you not guarding
that which is precious to you and shaytan
embezzling from it immediately, so don't allow that
to happen to the best of your ability.