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

Adnan Rajeh
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The speaker discusses the importance of the Prophet's actions, including the unrecommended actions of the makroohat, which include praying and drinking before eating. The speaker emphasizes the importance of eating before praying and not rushing for sensible reasons. The speaker also mentions the importance of shaping one's mentality to avoid unnecessary distractions.
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Imam Muslim narrators by Aisha Umm Al-Mu'mineen

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and the theme of the Makroohat Al-Salah

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or the Unrecommended Actions During Prayer or Surrounding

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Prayer is what I'm covering till the end

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of this week and then next week of

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course we're in the second week of Rabi'

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Al-Awwal so we'll talk about the Prophet

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alayhi salatu wasalam for a number of weeks

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after that and we'll talk about his description

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alayhi salatu wasalam as the custom that scholars

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have followed for the last thousand or more

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years and inshallah we'll start that next week.

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But I do want to cover the seven

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or eight most famous or important makroohat or

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unrecommended actions in salah.

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There's a lot, depending on the madhhab that

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you study you will find a different list.

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So I'm not following a specific madhhab and

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I'm not going to cover all of them

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within one madhhab.

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I'm just choosing the unrecommended actions, the makroohat

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that I find to be most relevant and

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that are most spread amongst people, that I

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observe a lot amongst people who are praying,

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offering their prayers in masajid and outside of

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masajid and hopefully inshallah, we talked about yawning,

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we talked about excessive movements, we talked about

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praying towards pictures or with a picture on

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the floor or having distractions, we talked about

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wandering with your eyes.

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These are all makroohat, none of these things

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should happen.

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And today the Prophet ﷺ offers another two

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actions that are unrecommended for salah.

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قَالَ لَا صَلَاةَ بِحَضْرَةِ الطَّعَامِ وَلَا وَهُوَ يُدَافِعُهُ

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الْأَخْبَثَانِ So what this means is that the

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first one is unrecommended for you to pray

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when food is being put there.

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Actually if it's sahihayn in Bukhari and Muslim,

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both of them, ﷺ says in another hadith

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قَالَ إِذَا أُقِيمَةِ الصَّلَاةَ بِحَضْرَةِ الطَّعَامِ فَابْدَأُوا بِالطَّعَامِ

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If iqama happens and there's food, start with

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the food.

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With difference of opinion among scholars regarding this

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topic, by the way, depending on the madhab

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that you're studying.

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But the concept is there and of course

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there are conditions for that to be followed.

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But the idea here is the Prophet ﷺ

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said if you're coming for a meal or

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you're hungry and the meal is there, then

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you shouldn't go and pray.

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Because most likely you're going to pray very

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very quickly and you're going to pray with

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

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

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kebab and the hummus and whatever else is

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there waiting for you.

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And it's hot so you need to make

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this quick so that it doesn't become not

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hot anymore and then people are going to

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not be happy with you.

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So you should eat first and then go

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and pray, unless obviously eating is going to

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cause you not to be able to catch

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

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And the other one is وَهُوَ يُدَافِعُهُ لَخْبَثًا

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This is a phrase in Arabic that means

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if you need to go to the washroom,

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if you're in a position where you need

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

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number one or number two makes no difference,

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you shouldn't go and pray and then do

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your business.

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No, go do your business first and then

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pray, because it's the same problem.

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

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praying very quickly because you're not comfortable and

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you don't feel...

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So what the Prophet ﷺ is pointing out

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to us here for the مَكْرُوه is don't

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pray in a position where you're going to

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be rushing it for a reason that is

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sensible.

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

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you're hungry and the food is being put

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and whoever made the food is out of

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respect, you should eat when the food is

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presented.

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And it's sensible to rush when you have

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to go to the bathroom.

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

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be rushing for a sensible reason, go ahead

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and do what you need to do first

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

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Now, I can spend another 15 minutes talking

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about it.

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

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The reason the Prophet ﷺ is saying this

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is because to him, salah is not something

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to get out of the way.

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To him, salah is not something that we

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need to get out of the way so

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we can go...

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No, no, no.

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Salah is one of the main courses.

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It's a main course of the day.

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So it's not something that we need to

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quickly get out of the way so we

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can sit and eat and whatever else we

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want to do.

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No, it's a main course and it takes

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its time.

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Isha is the most valuable thing that we

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did, you've done in the last hour.

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Even if you sat here listening to this

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ders for another half an hour and we

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did tasbih and we did salah al-nabi

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and we did qiyam and all of that,

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isha is more important.

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It's the main course.

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So the Prophet ﷺ wants you to see

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it that way.

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

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hurry.

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

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

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No, no.

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Get those things out of the way so

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that you can focus on your salah out

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of adab with standing in front of Allah

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ﷻ.

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It's makrooh to enter salah when food is

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there because it's not appropriate.

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You're not going to do it well.

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And it's makrooh to perform salah when you

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need to go to the bathroom on either

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side because his mentality regarding his salah was

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a little bit different and we have to

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bring that back.

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It's the mentality that I want you to

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think about here.

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Don't look at this and say I need

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to remove it out of the way.

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No, this is something that you give it,

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it's time.

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It takes five minutes, give it a solid

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five minutes where you're not rushing for sensible

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reasons.

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Allah ﷻ.

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I think it's an important makrooh that we

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should think about.

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I think it's an important makrooh that we

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should think about.

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