Adnan Rajeh – Un-Recommended Actions During Prayer – Yawning

Today, a collection of Imam Muslim read to

us by Abu Hurairah. The theme of Maqruhaha

Surah or the unrecommended

actions,

during prayer, I'm choosing it because it's a

flexible theme. If I cut it off a

little bit or if it's not as consistent,

it's no big deal. It's just things to

benefit from or ideas or things to learn.

And I have a very specific vantage point

for this, being in a Masjid for a

very long time in different ages and kind

of being in different positions. I got to

watch and I get to see what people

do and what I do and and and

you see that what the prophet alayhi sallam

talked about is very, very valid. He pointed

out, you know, it's the SubhanAllah, the same

problems that existed, still still what we have

today. And I talked about yawning yesterday and

today the hadith is a little bit different,

and and I'll narrate the there's at least

3 different narrations of this hadith, so you

may have heard it a little bit differently,

but I'm gonna choose this shorter one just

for ease.

Meaning people will stop looking up during salaam

when they're making dua or they're reading Quran.

Or Allah

will take their their eyesight away from them.

It was a very very heavy. This was

a very heavy hadith.

Again, I pointed out to you over the

years. Oh, I can say years now. It's

been two and a half. The the the

fact that the prophet

rarely,

very rarely, will break character

and use a heavy

language. He doesn't do it very often alayhis

salawat wa sallam. If you read

maybe the 4,500

or 4, you know, 46100 hadith that are

authentic that are pretty much agreed upon and

you look at and go through all of

them, then 99% of these hadithas are extremely

extremely compassionate

and filled with ease and just

a very small percentage has that heaviness in

it. And I think whenever he chooses to

speak with that strictness and rigidity, it's important

for us to take a moment and okay,

why is it that he's pointing this out

and why is this important? Right? That's why

this concept itself actually is much deeper than

what I'm going to share with you in

this khalilah. But what he's pointing out here

is when you're praying, the magruh,

is to look

anywhere

aside from right in front of you as

far as the maliki are concerned or where

you make sujood as far as the other

three schools of jurisprudence are concerned. So there's

some difference of opinion within the madhah, within

the form madhah in terms of where you

look, but they technically mostly agree that when

you're standing you're looking almost around to where

your sujood area is or just straight, but

you should definitely not be looking around during

your salah. Like if I'm sitting here and

someone standing and praying and they're looking at

me, there's a problem. You should not be

looking at me like I shouldn't be making

eye contact with you. Do you want me

to give salams to you in your salah?

What do you want me to do? Like

you shouldn't be looking at people.

Following people with your eyesight, seeing who's coming

into the door,

then none of that should be happening when

you're praying.

It is for the Shafi'i's

to close your eyes on Surah. Imam Minow

argued against this later on in the Majmura

and he didn't think that was the case.

Within each other of the 3 madhahib, there's

an argument for and against this concept of

closing your eyes. I don't think it's what

we the default. I don't think the default

for us is to close our eyes. I

don't think that's the default. But if you

don't have any If you don't have control

over your eyes and if you wander and

you can't and you're looking up and around

and see,

then then look then close your eyes if

you have no other choice.

But honestly,

and Yeah Hanib, you should be able to

just learn to focus

down when praying. The prophet alaihis salawam walked

into the Masjid, saw people looking up and

around when they're praying, and he and he

used heavy language. Said that people will stop

doing this or they will be punished in

dunya before akhirah. Meaning they will they will

lose their eyesight or the barakah of their

eyesight. Meaning they'll lose the barakah of what

they look at in their in their lives

if they stop doing this. And there's an

aspect of adab here. I'll quickly just point

it out for you is that when you're

in the salah, salah is a meeting between

you and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. You're speaking

to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. It is inappropriate

to be wandering with your eyesight in places.

Now

you can't look at Allah in dunya. We

understand this. In akhirah, Insha'Allah. May Allah grant

us that gift. Say, Ameen. May you be

amongst those who get to do it twice

a day, Insha'Allah Bijanatul Nah. Even the highest

ranks of paradise of Firdos. But in dunya,

you can. So it's it's only appropriate to

stay focused at least where where during Surah.

The wandering shows a lack of commitment and

lack of

of Khoshuah. So, Azane, if I were to

meet with you with

and you're, you know, talking and you're looking

here and looking there, looking up, looking around,

I probably won't continue this conversation with you

or I won't have another one in the

future because there's lack of respect. So, insulah,

it's just it's not appropriate for us to

be wandering with our eyesight everywhere. So if

you're someone who struggles with this, then it's

one of the makruhat. The prophet alaihis salaam

specifically pointed out not to do this. Like

he he noticed it and he said don't

don't do it in your salah. Don't be

looking around. And I see it a lot.

I see people, you know, they don't they're

not looking to they're

Yeah. It's it's it's awkward and it's not

good for your own salah. It's not helpful

for your own prayer. Your prayer is not

I'm sure you're not it's impossible that you're

having any form of real connection with Allah

Subhanahu wa Ta'ala or any form of real

Hashuah if you're looking around during your prayers.

Impossible.

It's it's just not possible. So that's the

second I wanna talk to you about, which

is wandering,

eye wandering during the flood. It's an important

thing. Make sure you fix it in your

life and make sure that once you do,

you take a moment and you teach your

children.

Try to help the kids. I think by

by age of 8, 9, you can start

having these conversations and try to focus your

Mahal sujood as you know, that that's the

sunnah of the prophet, alayhi sallahu alayhi wa

sallam, who does benefit.