Adnan Rajeh – Un-Recommended Actions During Prayer – Yawning
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The speaker discusses the importance of not wandering during prayer during Surah, as it is a heavy message that is not often discussed in the madhahib. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of not looking at people during prayer, as it is inappropriate to do so. The speaker also suggests fixing eye wandering during flood and not looking at people during flood.
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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.