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