Adnan Rajeh – Un-Recommended Actions During Prayer – When there is food or needing to use t

Imam Muslim narrators by Aisha Umm Al-Mu'mineen

and the theme of the Makroohat Al-Salah

or the Unrecommended Actions During Prayer or Surrounding

Prayer is what I'm covering till the end

of this week and then next week of

course we're in the second week of Rabi'

Al-Awwal so we'll talk about the Prophet

alayhi salatu wasalam for a number of weeks

after that and we'll talk about his description

alayhi salatu wasalam as the custom that scholars

have followed for the last thousand or more

years and inshallah we'll start that next week.

But I do want to cover the seven

or eight most famous or important makroohat or

unrecommended actions in salah.

There's a lot, depending on the madhhab that

you study you will find a different list.

So I'm not following a specific madhhab and

I'm not going to cover all of them

within one madhhab.

I'm just choosing the unrecommended actions, the makroohat

that I find to be most relevant and

that are most spread amongst people, that I

observe a lot amongst people who are praying,

offering their prayers in masajid and outside of

masajid and hopefully inshallah, we talked about yawning,

we talked about excessive movements, we talked about

praying towards pictures or with a picture on

the floor or having distractions, we talked about

wandering with your eyes.

These are all makroohat, none of these things

should happen.

And today the Prophet ﷺ offers another two

actions that are unrecommended for salah.

قَالَ لَا صَلَاةَ بِحَضْرَةِ الطَّعَامِ وَلَا وَهُوَ يُدَافِعُهُ

الْأَخْبَثَانِ So what this means is that the

first one is unrecommended for you to pray

when food is being put there.

Actually if it's sahihayn in Bukhari and Muslim,

both of them, ﷺ says in another hadith

قَالَ إِذَا أُقِيمَةِ الصَّلَاةَ بِحَضْرَةِ الطَّعَامِ فَابْدَأُوا بِالطَّعَامِ

If iqama happens and there's food, start with

the food.

With difference of opinion among scholars regarding this

topic, by the way, depending on the madhab

that you're studying.

But the concept is there and of course

there are conditions for that to be followed.

But the idea here is the Prophet ﷺ

said if you're coming for a meal or

you're hungry and the meal is there, then

you shouldn't go and pray.

Because most likely you're going to pray very

very quickly and you're going to pray with

almost no, like it's going to be useless,

there's nothing there because you're thinking about the

kebab and the hummus and whatever else is

there waiting for you.

And it's hot so you need to make

this quick so that it doesn't become not

hot anymore and then people are going to

not be happy with you.

So you should eat first and then go

and pray, unless obviously eating is going to

cause you not to be able to catch

the prayer altogether, that's a whole different story.

And the other one is وَهُوَ يُدَافِعُهُ لَخْبَثًا

This is a phrase in Arabic that means

if you need to go to the washroom,

if you're in a position where you need

to go to the washroom, either, whether it's

number one or number two makes no difference,

you shouldn't go and pray and then do

your business.

No, go do your business first and then

pray, because it's the same problem.

It's the same problem, you're going to be

praying very quickly because you're not comfortable and

you don't feel...

So what the Prophet ﷺ is pointing out

to us here for the مَكْرُوه is don't

pray in a position where you're going to

be rushing it for a reason that is

sensible.

It's sensible to rush when you're hungry because

you're hungry and the food is being put

and whoever made the food is out of

respect, you should eat when the food is

presented.

And it's sensible to rush when you have

to go to the bathroom.

So when it's sensible that you're going to

be rushing for a sensible reason, go ahead

and do what you need to do first

and then pray so that you're not...

Now, I can spend another 15 minutes talking

about it.

There's a little point here that we don't...

The reason the Prophet ﷺ is saying this

is because to him, salah is not something

to get out of the way.

To him, salah is not something that we

need to get out of the way so

we can go...

No, no, no.

Salah is one of the main courses.

It's a main course of the day.

So it's not something that we need to

quickly get out of the way so we

can sit and eat and whatever else we

want to do.

No, it's a main course and it takes

its time.

Isha is the most valuable thing that we

did, you've done in the last hour.

Even if you sat here listening to this

ders for another half an hour and we

did tasbih and we did salah al-nabi

and we did qiyam and all of that,

isha is more important.

It's the main course.

So the Prophet ﷺ wants you to see

it that way.

So don't do it when you're in a

hurry.

Don't do it when you're rushing it.

Don't do it when you can't focus.

No, no.

Get those things out of the way so

that you can focus on your salah out

of adab with standing in front of Allah

ﷻ.

It's makrooh to enter salah when food is

there because it's not appropriate.

You're not going to do it well.

And it's makrooh to perform salah when you

need to go to the bathroom on either

side because his mentality regarding his salah was

a little bit different and we have to

bring that back.

It's the mentality that I want you to

think about here.

Don't look at this and say I need

to remove it out of the way.

No, this is something that you give it,

it's time.

It takes five minutes, give it a solid

five minutes where you're not rushing for sensible

reasons.

Allah ﷻ.

I think it's an important makrooh that we

should think about.

I think it's an important makrooh that we

should think about.