Adnan Rajeh – Un-Recommended Actions During Prayer- Praying Towards a Picture
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The speaker discusses the importance of not praying towards a picture in a prayer setting. They also advise against praying towards a picture in a space where there is too much distraction. The speaker emphasizes the importance of making choices about one's environment and removing distractions from one's brain.
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And you understand what the Magruh once I
narrate to you.
The Prophet alaihis salam prayed in the house
of Aisha and she had a qiraam. A
qiraam
is basically a piece of
wool
or a piece of fabric that they would
that they put in front of doors. If
you live in the Middle East at some
point,
there's the door and then there's that piece
of fabric that just kinda lies there, so
people can't see inside, but the door is
open. So that's called a qiram. So she
had a new qiram that she had it
was gifted to her.
And within the and this qiram that she
had, had all these drawings on it.
The story is narrated multiple times and they
have different wordings for it. So the one
I had is not that extensive. The one
that I'm narrating to is not that extensive,
but the other ones explained that there were
specific drawings of birds and stuff on it.
He said, remove this qiram from from where
where you get this from?
Where do you go? The prophet alayhi sallam
This hadith talks about a few makruhat that
I'm gonna put all together. I'm gonna package
for you inshaAllah ta'ala.
Don't pray towards a picture.
Right? If there's a picture If you have
a picture in your home, if you put
a picture up for someone that you love,
which is fine. I'm not of the opinion
that there's anything wrong with that. There are
some scholars who completely disagree with me and
think it's wrong. I don't see it to
be a problem. I don't think there's a
problem with you putting up pictures of people
that you love. Just don't put them in
the qiblah. So people don't pray towards them
because that is a clear maqru and that's
something you definitely shouldn't have. But if you
have someone that you love, a parent or
someone who passed away and you enjoy having
their picture, something that is dear to you,
have it. Just don't have it in the
qiblah where people are praying so you'll never
praying towards it. So you should never pray
towards the picture. That's number 1. Number 2
is you shouldn't pray
in a in a space where there's a
lot of things that will distract you. So
the Prophet is a problem. Here's the story.
Is
used to praying in his home. He prays
his sunnah in his home and sometimes even
and
whatnot. He'll pray in his home. So he's
praying in his home, he's used to his
place and he's used to where he is.
So, he's praying and there's something new that
was never there before. And then all these
pictures. Now, the prophet of alayhis salam is
totally focused, but this new thing with all
the pictures on it is very distracting. So,
he finished his prayer, he turns to high,
he says, Get rid of it. In another
hadith, he says,
Where do you get it from?
Give it back to him. I don't want
it anymore.
There's another something which is like basically
a plain piece of fabric. Right? Because he
didn't want And this
is the correct thing in Masajid.
We're looking to change this carpet soon inshaAllah
ta'ala. My goal is to change it to
something that's much more simple than this. You're
looking down and saying it's simple. No, it
isn't.
If you have a if you have a
brain that has a little bit of ADHD
to it, a little of OCD, this is
a big problem. Your brain is making all
the little pictures and you're making them symmetrical
and Massage are supposed to be very plain.
They're supposed to be plain because of the
fact that we are as human beings capable
of distracting ourselves with absolutely nothing.
Like before computers and before Walkmans and before
all these things, people would distract themselves with
with light. Like if there was a light
coming through your room, you put your hand
up and you make all these things. We're
very very capable of distracting ourselves as human
beings. In Surah you want to lessen the
distractions. The prophet alaihis salatu wasallam
is handy is that you keep the place
of prayer very simple. So
when it comes to pictures, don't ever pray
towards a picture. If you have a picture
in the house, put it on the side
so it's not in the qibla.
And then try to make the place of
prayer simple. And masajid should be like that.
The masajid in general are supposed to be
They'd be beautiful but they have to be
beautiful simplistically.
If you go if you ever if you
go to a church or synagogues or something,
they are extremely decorated.
Extremely decorated with a lot of colors.
I I can't
argue for that. Like when I go to
a masjid and I find it overly decorated
and overly distracting,
it's not it's not my I don't think
I don't think that's the right way. I
don't think that's how the prophet
would have won. He actually he actually says
certain things.
He actually says not to do stuff like
that. And this is the makrul that I
want to point out to you is that
when you're praying,
make sure that you're not praying towards it.
It's a magruh to pray towards a picture
and it's magruh for you to be focused
on pictures when you're praying. So try to
lessen the distraction of what's in front of
you, whether you're praying in a masjid or
you're praying at home with the prophet did
not like tasawwir. He didn't like the when
it comes to surah. Now, usir of surah
is fine. You can have a qurram. It
has all this. Yeah. You can be on
your bed if you like. But when you're
praying, it should not be in front of
you because you're trying to lessen the amount
of things that your brain will get distracted
by. I think that's something worthy of, of
reflection. And this hadith is interesting to me
outside of Yani, the specifics of the recommended
actions or makruhats. I find that the Prophet
was very
attentive of these things. He was attentive of
his surroundings
and he adjusted things in ways that would
help him achieve his goal. This is something
we don't think about a lot. We take
our environment sometimes for granted. Meaning the environment
is the environment. It has to stay the
way it is and we move on. No.
No. Your environment is something that you should
adjust
so that it suits you and what you
want to achieve in your life. Like your
environment is a part of your choices. Like
you have to choose what type of environment
you are subjecting yourself to. We often in
life especially in this area that we're living
in accept our environments as givens. There's no
way to change it. This is the work
environment. It's garbage, always gonna be garbage. This
is the The neighborhood is always gonna be
like, No. No. No. No. No.
Step back.
Your environment is very important. It's going to
affect you heavily positively or negatively. You have
to make choices about it. You have to
remove that which you don't think is helpful
to you and keep that which you do
think is helpful for you. The prophet was
very sensitive towards these things. He made sure
that his surroundings were going to help him
achieve his objectives, alayhis salatu wa salam.
And I think that's just something very interesting
about his character, alayhis salaam. I want to
share with you.