Hamza Ayedi – Fiqh Of Salah Taught – Part 1
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The importance of a "verbal" experience is emphasized, with a recap of the journey of the Prophet's gifts and the importance of praying for the Prophet's umICH. Prayer for the Prophet's gifts is emphasized, along with the need for a complete completion of the spiritual process. The importance of praying with your eyes, washing and burying the deceased, respecting past rulings, and having a strong stance to avoid confusion is emphasized.
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You know, it it brings me a lot
of joy and happiness, when I see so
many people, alhamdulillah, attend the Masjid. And SubhanAllah,
the the fiqh of salah has something,
I don't know, something amazing about it. Whenever
it's taught, it just brings people together. SubhanAllah.
And this is a good sign, that our
community realizes the importance of a salah,
and,
yeah, I mean, how how great that is
in our deen.
Right?
Bismillah Al Haram Al Rahim. So we are
Alhamdulillah, we're here to talk about, fiqh as
salah,
and I wanted to start with, with the
story of Al Isra wal Mi'raj.
Al Isra wal Mi'raj. And Al Isra wal
Mi'raj, if you recall, it's one of the
greatest events that have ever happened in the
in the seerah of the prophet
Actually you can probably say one of the
greatest events that happened in the history of
humanity.
Right?
And, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
mentions this in Surat al Isra chapter 17.
Subhanahu
wa'amustaajeem bisbulahmarahim Subhanallati asrabi abdihee laylamin almasilharami
ilalmasilalahu
linuriahu min ayatinainahuwasami
albasir. This is the very first verse in
Surat Al Isra. Well Isra means the night
journey. Al Isra'ah means the night journey. And
it's very amazing, Jibril, Nabi mentions that he
was praying by the Kaaba and Jibril came
to him. Jibril came to him. The chief
of the angels came to him and he
brought with him al Burra'ah. Al Burrakh is
this kind of animal,
some said like a mule, and this animal
could travel really fast, really fast distance. So
Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, wudjibril and the
Burrakh was able to travel all the way
from, from, Al Masjid Al Haram in Mecca,
all the way to Baytul Maqdis in Jerusalem,
All the way from
Mecca to Jerusalem
in minutes or hours. SubhanAllah. A journey that
would take months
in regular time to Ma'am. And who does
he see there? He finds all the?
All the Prophets, SubhanAllah. He finds all the
Prophets. Imagine, and Nabi is there, and he
sees Ibrahim, and Musa, and Isa, and Yahya,
and
all the Prophets, SubhanAllah.
And he prays, and he's the one that
leads the prayer. Imagine this scenario, SubhanAllah.
And then now it's time for for the
Prophet
to rise, Al Mi'raj.
Arajayani
to go up. Right? Surat Al Mi'raj talks
about, right, rising up. And so now Jibreel
takes the Prophet
and he goes, and now they reach the
first heaven. We know that there are 7
heavens, right? Samawat, Sab As Samawat as Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala mentions. He reaches the first
heaven, and then there's a gatekeeper.
He has to he needs permission. So he
knocks, Jibril alaihis salam knocks. And then the
gatekeeper asks, Who's this? He says, Jibril and
Muhammad
is with me. So now the door is
opened. The door is open and then he
sees things that are amazing, that are mentioned
in the hadith.
And then he does that with every door
and every level of the heavens until he
reaches the last heaven.
And now it's a place where even Jibril
can't go.
And he's reached such a high level, even
Jibril, the archangel cannot go, and the Prophet
gets to go to the high level to
meet who? None other than Allah
I want you to imagine the scenario.
This is Allah
Lord of the worlds, King of the Kings
about to meet
Sayyidu
Waladi Adam, the master of the children of
Adam. SubhanAllah. What a scenario. And SubhanAllah, we
know in the dunya here,
you know, when a king is hosting, you
know,
someone,
you know, and they prepare things
and it's a great event,
you know, they don't let them leave without
a great gift.
Something huge.
SubhanAllah.
Faheer, the guess is who Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. Sayyid Walidi Adam, the master of
the children of Adam. And who is the
host? None other than Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. What could be such a big
reason
to bring the Prophet all the way from
the dunya, from the lowest place, from the
meaning of dunya is adna shayyah. The lowest
place to the highest place. And what could
be so important
that he would bring him all the way
up there to a place that even Jibreel
cannot go?
So we know the story now, Allah
gifts the Prophet
the greatest gift that this ummah has ever
received which is
which is which is which is as salah,
which is as salah.
And Nabi
now, Allah
has told him that it's, obligated on your
ummah to what? To pray how many times?
5.
5?
50 times.
You pray 5 times and you're complaining?
So,
he's he's obligated to pray 50 times. And
subhanAllah, just a reminder,
I skipped a few points.
Al Isra wal Mirad, when does it happen?
Anybody know in the Sira? Taban, is it
in the Madani or the Makki?
The Mekki. Okay. Alhamdulillah. Everybody agrees? Nobody disagrees?
Taijameel. So it's in the Mekki period, the
13 years that he was there sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam,
it happened for sure. There's some disagreement about
exactly when it happened, but for sure it
happened after Amal Khuzun.
Amal Khuzun was the most difficult year for
the prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam.
What does huzun mean? Any sadness. And it
was the saddest year for the prophet shalallahu
alaihi wa sallam. Why? Because Abu Talib, his
uncle,
you know, he passes away.
He passes away and he doesn't just pass
he passes away as a mushrik. This is
very difficult for him because Abu Talib is
the one who was protecting him. He was
protecting him in Mecca. He was protecting him
from the attacks of the of the other
leaders of Mecca, from the mushrikeen. And so
he passes away. Faib. So that's a difficult
time for the prophet
who else dies in the same year?
The most beloved person to him, Khadija
the mother of most of his children, right?
The one who supported him emotionally,
spiritually,
financially,
subhanAllah, passes away. So now he's lost like
so much support.
So now you understand the difficulty that the
Prophet is in. And I want you to
think of a time that you were in
that was so difficult, that you lost all
your support, maybe you lost job, you lost
person you loved, and imagine what a low
point you're in. So An Nabi salallahu alayhi
wa sallam is in this low point. And
now he's trying to get some help. So
he goes where? He goes to Ta'if,
right? Trying to seek some protection from the
other tribes. Do they accept him? They reject
him. Not only they reject him, they stone
him. SubhanAllah. Like they get the children to
grab stones and stone the Prophet
until he's bleeding. SubhanAllah. He has the chance
to the angel of the mountains comes and
tells the prophet If you want, I can
crush them both. I can crush these towns,
right? Between these two mountains. And the prophet
refuses and says, You know, maybe
people
believing people will come from
these tribes.
Fadin Allah
decrees the night of
Al Isra wal Mi'raj. And it comes in
such a decisive time. And so now we
go back to where we were.
Allah
has decreed
has prescribed a salah 50 times. So he
goes back, who does he meet?
He meets Musa alayhi salam. Musa alayhi salam
has experience. He has experience with Bani Israel,
and he tells them, Listen, 50 times they're
not gonna be able to handle it. And
so we know the story. He goes back.
The Prophet alayhi salam, you know, he he
first he asked and then it's reduced to
45, and then he goes back and Musa's
like, No, that's still too much. I want
you to imagine if you had to pray
45 times, if you had to pray 45
times, every 30 minutes Ibrahim has done the
math already. So every 30 minutes you'd have
to pray, takayal yani. That would be such
a burden on us. You know? Yeah. Even
at 2 AM, salallahu alayhi. So you wouldn't
sleep much, right? Fa fa It's such a
burden like this is If that was the
only thing that the prophet
did for us, that's enough for us to
do salah upon
him And so now he keeps going back,
and he's shy to keep asking
but he asks because he cares about his
ummah, his ummah.
And so subhanAllah now it's reduced to what?
To how many? To 5. Musa still said
go back, but the Rasulam said, Khala Siyani,
I cannot ask for Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
to reduce it more. And so but what
happens? It's 5 salawats
and their word is what? It's 50. Allahuwwar.
5 salawats
and 50. And you think, subhanAllah, it's not
a coincidence Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala prescribed and
He gave him this gift. Why? To show
him that
To get through what you're going through right
now, the lowest point in your life, in
your mission, you will need a salah.
And a salah is what's gonna keep you
it's what's gonna give you strength,
right? It's what's gonna be able to help
you. And that's what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
tells in Surah Al Baqarah,
Seek help, okay? In salah and in patience.
In patience and in salah. Inalaha
ma'as Sabireen. Inalaha
ma'as Sabireen. So
now here's the interesting thing. As salah, prayer.
Was it prescribed only to this ummah?
To the ummah of the Prophet Muhammad salallahu
alayhi wa sallam? Or was it prescribed to
the nations before?
What do you guys say?
Hashabab.
Did the Prophet before have to pray as
well or just us?
In a different way. Anybody have some ayat
in mind?
So I have with me here, this is
a book called Ta'adhimu Salah, Ta'adhimu Salah by
Shaykh Abdul Razak bin Abdul Musin, Al Badr,
one of the scholars in Mas'id and Nabi,
Mashallah. He has a lot of great content.
This book is actually
translated,
the reverence of Salah. You can find it
online. I think a PDF is available. And
he mentions here that, actually
from the, from the ayat that we see
here, from the first from the early mentions
of Salah, we see the story of Yunus
He tells us where Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
says,
When Yunus
was put in the belly of the whale,
fa falawlaanahuqanna
min almusabihin,
la labitafi batnihee ilayumadin. Ibn Abba
says that, Musabihin here means what? From those
who prayed.
Had he not been from those who prayed,
then he would have stayed in the belly
of the whale until the day of judgment.
SubhanAllah.
But you see here, as salah is what
saved Yunus
from from being in the belly of the
whale. We also have
multiple mentions of Ibrahim. Ibrahim when he's building
the Kaaba with Ishmael, Rabbanah
Or actually when he's
in Makkah, he says, Rabbanah inyaskan to min
duriya tibiwadin railey vizarah. And the baitikalmuharam
Rabbanah
liyukimus salah. So Ibrahim is going to this
barren land and he's, you know, he's taken
his wife Hajar and Ismaeel and and he's
making dua, he's saying, Allah Subhata'ala.
All these, the main thing is what? Liyukhimus
salah. So they can establish
the prayer. And we have here also, Waibbawanalibrahima
Makanalbaytiallatushrbaytiallataifina
walqaimina warkasujud.
Arrukha sujud, yani those who pray. Yani purify
this house, the Ka'bah, for those who will
pray.
And then we also have the du'aubrayim, SubhanAllah,
look how many times the salah is mentioned,
right?
And his son Ismael,
We also have Ishaq, wa'aabna Allahu ishaq wa'aabna
Allahu ishaq waYakuba nafila. So subhanAllah, the dua
he has made, it came true. That so
that his children would be from those who
prayed, right?
And to establish
the prayer, right? And we have
He mentions, You're all so many of the
prophets that are mentioned,
Dawood, right?
Wakar Raraki Anwa Anab.
Anybody can think of other examples in the
Quran? Other
Isa
right?
And He has commanded me to to
with salah. Was salati, with zakati,
madhum to hayyah. Right? And we also have
the covenant Allah
with Bani Israel and all the Prophets
that came. Allah says, Allah told them to
Bani Israel, this is the original 12 tribes
of Bani Israel.
He says,
I am with you. As long as what?
La'in Akam Tu Mus Sala.
One of the first thing he says, I
am with you and I will support you.
This is the original 12 tribes of Bani
Israel, the children of Israel. La'in Akam Tu
Mus Salaat wa Atitha Muzakat wa
Right? And of course most of them did
not do that, and we have not to
venerate. So this is something that was before
before our
shari'ah, right? And that's how Musa actually Musa
knew that it's too much. When it was
prescribed his 50s, he told the prophet, It's
too much. Go back and
try to reduce it.
We
have in this hadith,
it's a very interesting hadith, and Abi Khattada
radhiallahu anhu,
and in
Nabi
This is a hadith Qudsi. And
it's a hadith Qudsi. It's what Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala said, but it's it's paraphrased by
the Nabi
Right? I have obligated,
right? Or I have made it obligatory
for my, for this ummah. Okay?
Your ummah, Muhammad salallam.
That I have made a guarantee. Ah, a
promise, a guarantee, a deal from Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. So Allah pay attention. Right? If
anyone observes them regularly at their times, these
5 prayers,
I shall admit him to paradise.
Lawuqbar.
Yeah, the person who observes the 5 daily
prayers takes care of them. You have and
he takes care of them. Okay? And takes
and praise them in time, right?
He will enter him and he's guaranteed to
enter Jannah. And if anyone does not offer,
okay,
Whoever doesn't take care of these 5 prayers,
he doesn't have a deal.
Okay? Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala might forgive him
and enter him right away into Jannah
or might not or might
and he decree that he goes to the
hellfire for a turn.
But the one who takes care of a
salah, right?
And he does it properly. Because when we
say, You have dua'alihinna,
You and he prays them properly and in
their times, then he has a covenant with
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. You have a deal
with Allah
Subhanahu wa ta'ala that Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala
will enter you into Jannah. May Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala make us from those people. And
so this is a great thing about salah,
right?
I have a list here of some of
the things that show you the excellence of
a salah, right? Before we get into the
fiqh of salah, right? The rulings of salah,
we wanna just kind of appreciate salah for
what it is, right? We don't wanna go
into the rulings right away. Halal, haram, haram,
haram, rubah, magruh. Right? And we don't appreciate
what we're talking about. Fas salah, subhanAllah, it's
amazing, right?
Number 1, it's the main pillar of Islam.
When we talk about pillars of Islam, you
have a building and it has pillars, the
main pillar. Right? Sometimes there's one pillar, if
it falls, everything else falls. This is it.
Yeah? And we have the hadith,
right? We have this hadith that the the
difference between us and the disbelievers is salah.
Right? And so, it's the main pillar of
Islam.
Right? So if someone says, I'm a Muslim.
I'm a Muslim. Right? But he doesn't observe
prayer, and he doesn't see that he has
to observe prayer, then that's a very questionable
Islam.
If you say that I'm a Muslim,
right? And
we'll get into the fiqh later, but
the least that any scholar has said for
someone who is neglectful of his prayer. We're
not saying someone who says I don't have
to pray. The one who says I don't
have to pray, he has left Islam. But
the one who says, I don't want to
pray. I'm lazy. Right? The least least least
the scholar has said is, You are a
fasr. You are a fasr. You are a
fasr. You are a public sinner. Okay? Fasr.
Right? Would someone ever accept that for themselves?
SubhanAllah. So it's the main pillar of Islam.
Number 2, it's the foremost obligation after the
declaration of faith. Yes. When the person
When we have new Muslims, mashallah,
and they accept Islam, the first thing we
tell them is what?
We teach them tahara, we just finish tahara,
and then we teach them Why do we
teach them tahara so they can pray? And
all those weeks that we spend on tahara,
really that one of the main reasons is
so we can pray, right? So we can
have a prayer that is accepted. Because one
of the surut of of salah, one of
the conditions of salah is that we have
we're in the state of purification.
We have tahara.
It's the foremost obligation after the declaration of
faith, after a shahada.
Number 3, it was given to the Prophet
directly by Allah. We just talked about that.
This, this i'baah that was given directly to
the Prophet without any intermediaries
from the 7 Heavens. SubhanAllah.
Directly. And it wasn't brought by Jibreel alaihis
salam. It was directly given to show you
how great it is, how amazing it is,
right?
Number 4, it was given to the prophet
on the greatest night he ever experienced, which
is night of al Isra wal Mirraj.
Number 5, it was given
over to the Muslims at the highest point
possible.
Right? We talked that he went Even Jibril
couldn't go there. SubhanAllah.
To show you how great this this 'ibada
is,
it was obligated initially as 50 prayers. We
mentioned that. And then later only as 5
with the reward of 50. SubhanAllah. Just a
pause here. I want you to think about
this for a second.
If
you think of any other Ibadah,
look at salah.
In as salah,
right? You have you have takbir, like you
have dhikr.
Takbir SubhanAllah SubhanAllah
SubhanAllah SubhanAllah SubhanAllah Abi Al Adhim. You're reading
Fatiha, correct? You have to read Fatiha. As
we're gonna see inshaAllah, it's one of the
the arkan, one of the pillars of of
of salah. And so how many times you're
reading Fatiha minimum?
Like if you're, if you're, you know, you're
doing the covenant with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
what's the minimum your times you're reading Fatiha?
17 times. Well Fatiha we know that al
Fatiha has like I'm not sure if you
ever done the math, but how many lars
does Al Fatiha have to someone in Congo
right now? Probably like a 1,000 or something,
right? And you multiply it by 10, right?
You've got like so much hasanat multiplied by
17 times just by reading the Fatiha, look
how many good deeds you're getting, Right? And
then you have a dhikr that you're doing,
a sujood, a ruku. There's so
much happening there, and then not to mention
how focused are you with Allah? How much
khusur you have with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala?
Because the Nabi salallahu alayhi wa sallam told
us that a person might pray, he might
get 1 eighth,
Right?
SubhanAllah Salah, there's no other Ibadah that can
give you as many hasanats as a salah.
Why is this important? Because
unfortunately the the depending on how you were
raised
and how salah was introduced to you and
how you've been experiencing salah, salah to you
might be a burden.
Salah to you might be a chore.
Do we agree? For some of us it's
a chore, right?
For some of it it's a burden.
It's difficult for us to stay,
but for some people, and we ask Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to make some of those
people, it's something they run to. Ya Nainab
he would tell Bilal, arikhna bhiya bilal.
Bilal is the Mu'adhin. And so he would
tell Bilal, Arishna bhiya Ani give us comfort
with it. Yani Anibal would find comfort in
salah.
You know like, you know, we all have
places of comfort.
We live in a time
with a lot of distractions.
You know, the currency now is distraction. Everybody's
trying to distract you with something. And there's
a lot of escapism,
you know, because we have all so many
distractions.
The only way for us to kind of
relax and get rid of all the stress
is escaping through different things. Whether it's overeating,
whether it's watching movies, whether whatever it is,
right?
And Nabi salallahu alayhi wa salam used to
escape from the stress and the fatigue of
life through what? Through a salah.
And this is what we want salah to
be for us.
When salah becomes this for you,
Allah, it will become a different,
a different hibada.
It will be something totally different than what
we experience it right now. Is it going
to come right away? No. But it has
to be that objective.
Some of the 'alaama' they said it took
us 20 years to reach that sweetness, to
enjoy salah.
But when they got it, they said it
was worth it. It was worth all that
time. Ta'man, you have to pray salah anyways.
In fact, it's it's in your best interest
to try to get to that level where
you enjoy salah, where you actually can stand.
Nabi salallahu alayhi wa sallam, I want you
to imagine
I remember sometimes when I had to stand
and I had no choice. Like I remember
one time I had to do umrah, and
had my daughter with me,
and I was just doing tawaf
and sa'y, and I just couldn't stand. My
back was gonna break, right? My feet were
swelling. But imagine Nabi salallahu alayhi wasalam, he's
praying in salah and he's enjoying it so
much he doesn't feel.
We have narrations of Sahaba are praying
and an arrow hits them. They don't scream.
They don't flinch.
Abaajib.
It's amazing. How did they reach that level?
Number 6. Number 7. It is the only
daily continual act of worship we have. And
so it's something that is prescribed. I want
you to imagine Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
we have some * that just pray everything
at night one time, and that's not the
sunnah, and that's not the way of ahasunawajama.
But the way Allah Subhanahu Wa Jalal. But
the way Allah Subhanahu Wa Jalal prescribed the
time, think about the salah, think about how
he prescribed and the hikma behind that. You
start your day with a salah.
Ta ma'am,
you know you read any of of you
know books on meditation,
books on productivity,
they'll tell you one of the best things
for any human being to do in the
morning is what? Is to get up in
the morning and do some meditation, some reflection.
Allah Subhana Wa Ta'ala already put it for
there for us. Allah Subhana Wa Ta'ala already
gave us something to wake up, to kind
of just you know relax and focus on
yourself
and have relation between you and your creator.
Something to start the day off. And then
you have duhruh, right? And so it's divided
in all the 5
equally amongst the day. So that you have
a salah is a station for you to
seek help and it's a station for you
to get rest. SubhanAllah.
Think of those
car races, you know, those
what do they call them?
F1, Formula 1 and stuff.
They have to They have pit stops every
every once in a while, right? But if
they don't do those pit stops, what happens?
Tire blows up. Tire blows up. They run
out of gas. Khalafs, it's over. And this
is what happens to a lot of us
spiritually,
but we don't realize
that. And really our station is a salah.
And if you treated it like that,
it will you will totally change the way
you you see your salah.
Number 8, it's the best of actions. We
have multiple narrations mentioning that, Habuul Aamal Assalah,
Habuul Aamal Allah Assalah. Habuul Aamal Assalah if
you walk there. The most beloved actions of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is a salah in
its
time. Anybody know how many times a salah
is mentioned in the Quran? 100
to 100?
I believe over 200 times it's mentioned. And
most of the time,
It's very interesting. Why? We'll discuss that insha'Allah.
Number 9, it is the first thing that
the servant of Allah will be just upon
the day of Jazeb. Ajib, this is a
hadith.
Most of us are familiar with it but
Anayri Saladin said that,
different narrations,
that
the very first thing that they have can
you imagine,
you know, we just buried you, right? And
and you're you're, you know, yomul kiyama is
here, and you're about to you're standing in
front of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
You've got this
whole,
all these ibaadah, Hajju, sadaqah, uburulwaliday,
all these things you have with you, right?
But none of it will count
until your salah is complete.
So the hadith mentions that if his salah
is complete,
okay, then everything else will be fine.
And if it's not complete, fagathaa baalu khusl.
He will lose.
Yani, nothing The ibadah will not be accepted.
Yani, in order for all those ibadah to
be accepted,
is the salah has to be there. To
understand how great this ibadah is, it's the
very first thing you'll be asked and it
has to be complete.
By the way,
a person might pray all his prayers but
we don't know if it's accepted. Do we
know if it's accepted?
We hope it's accepted. Anybody know anybody here
have a guarantee your salah is accepted?
Ali radiAllahu anhu says that,
If I knew for sure
that 2 rakahs were accepted, I would have
rested on that.
They asked him why. He said, Because Allah
subhanahu wa'ala says, in Surat Al Maida, Inna
ma'atakabballahu
al muttaqeen.
Allah only accepts from muttaqeen.
And so if those 2 were accepted, then
he would be considered from what? From muttaqeen
and muttaqeen are where?
In Jannah. In Muttaqeen
are from the people of Jannah. Those who
are God conscious, they are conscious of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Number 10. It was the
only obligation from the 5 pillars to be
obligated in Makkah upon the Muslims at the
very beginning of Islam. Because all the other
obligations came after. Yeah. If you see Psalm
and Zakah
and Hajj,
these were all happening and being obligated after
what?
You know after the Hijra. And so the
very first one that was obligated is a
salah. Number 11, it has been given its
own public call each time.
Yeah. And so as salah, there's a public
call for it which is what which is
al adhan. And we said that Anaybhi Salallam
would say,
SubhanAllah. And so it's a communal event.
Like it's an event. In a Muslim country,
it's an event. If you've ever lived in
a Muslim country, there's a call to prayer.
You know, whenever the prayer is about to
come, there's a call to prayer. There's a
call just for that act of, that act
of worship. There's no call for zakah, right?
There's no call. It's not like somebody gets
up and calls for Hajj. Nobody's getting up
and calling for a song,
right? But it has its own call, subhanAllah.
It's something, it's part of our sharia.
And it's one of the sha'a'ir of Islam
by the way.
When a Muslim would go to another,
during time of war, how do you know
if it's a city is a Muslim?
One of the signs is what?
Is adhan. If they hear the adhan at
treasure time, a khalas. This is a Muslim.
If they don't hear the adhan,
then this must not be a Muslim place.
SubhanAllah. So it's one of the symbols of
Islam in a city or a town. So
if you go to a city and there's
no adhan,
you know, it's not considered a Muslim country.
As soon as you hear the adhan, khalas,
now they're considered
a Muslim country. It's the defining characteristic of
the Muslim. We said that really what makes
a Muslim a Muslim is number 1 his
salah. Right? And so when a person leaves
his salah Why? We're gonna talk about the
meaning of salah. A salah comes from the
word right?
Linguistically salah. Well salah is what?
It's a connection.
It's a habil between you and Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. And so whoever neglects that rope,
what's he saying?
He's cutting the connection between him and Allah
Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
Number 13, it's a deterrent from indecency and
wickedness. Where do we get this from?
Right? And he sins in the night. There's
a person,
he prays in the day,
but he sins at the night. What did
the prophet say to them?
Tell him to pray at the night. It
will protect him.
Some of them will say, Well, I know
people who pray or maybe I pray and
I still fall into these things.
It's the salah that's done properly. It's the
salah that's done with hushur. It's the salah
where the person treats it like a protection,
like a connection with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
not just something you're trying to get rid
of. That salah is the one that protects
you. Not the salah that you're just like,
Okay, just get it all done. I'm not
going to be asked about check and done.
Number and this salah
Just to connect this with the connection.
One of the reasons why,
you know, it's highly recommended
if you can to always do your wudu
because al wudu gets you ready in the
salah mode. Right? You know like
if
you if you if you Yeah, those of
you who reflected on this will understand what
I'm saying. Right? But if you haven't tried
it,
right? The things that you do physically,
do they have an effect on your mental
state?
What do you guys think?
The things that you do physically. Yani,
does the way you sit right now, does
it affect the way you receive information?
It does, right? Like someone who's laying down,
like this. Is he like the same as
someone who's sitting down? And his body is
in a good posture and They're not the
same. For even the way you sit physically,
the way you
interact physically, right?
It affects your mental state.
How about when someone dresses nice? Doesn't that
affect the way they they feel about themselves?
A person who goes to an interview, okay,
and they're wearing pajamas,
how's their confidence level versus someone who just
bought like a custom made suit and he
goes to an interview?
He might not be qualified but he might
feel like, you know, I'm gonna run this
company.
Even the way you dress the panel, even
for salah,
the righteous before us, they would get ready
for salah. Right? You see now,
we've developed a habit, and we're all guilty
of it, where we just wear whatever and
we go to the masjid, and like, you
know, we're wearing like the bathroom flip flops,
and you know like just some any clothes,
right? And we forget that we're going to
meet Allah. What do you mean? Yeah. Salah,
basically it's you meeting Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And so when you treat salah like that,
yes.
Number 14, it expates your sins.
We know the hadith where the prophet says,
What do you think about a person,
okay, who lives in front of a river?
And I'm
paraphrasing here. And then he he swims in
that river 5 times a day.
Will there be any dirt
on him? Will he be dirty?
Is he gonna smell bad? Is he gonna
be dirty? And the answer is what?
The answer is no. Right? That's what salah
does to you.
That's what salah does to your your sins.
It just washes them off. For the person
who's from salah to salah,
it's expiates, it erases his sins. One time,
I believe it was Salman Farasih radiAllahu anhu,
he was sitting with the Prophet and the
Prophet broke a branch. He broke a branch,
like an old branch,
and he shook it off and the leaf
fell off. Right?
And so
And Nabi salallahu alaihi wasallam told Salman, Are
you gonna ask me why I did that?
So Salman asks, Why did you do that?
And so the prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam said,
This is what salah does to the person's
sins. When the person prays,
the sins fall off just like these leaves.
SubhanAllah.
It expiates
our sins. And number 15, it was the
last
testament given to us by the Prophet before
he passes away. And Nabi salallam,
right? And and the Shabdul Azak, he mentions
this here, is that I want you to
imagine
the master of the children of Adah,
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
he's on his deathbed. This is the greatest
strategy that ever happened to the Ummah. And
I want you to imagine this is the
master of humanity.
This is not a president or a king
or
some And he's on his deathbed
and when someone's about to pass away, what
do they do? They want to give the
last walsiyyah, the last yani advice.
And so a sahaba are waiting and you
know Aisha is there and Abu Bakr is
there. And they're waiting and literally the last
words that come out of his mouth is
what?
Yeah. And from all the things he could
have said, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. You know,
watch out for the fitna of this, watch
out for that, watch out for this. Be
careful what's going to happen. Be careful of
the akhawars. He could have said a 1,000,000
things. Right? He said, As salah, As salah.
Will idalik, even you see in the seer
of Abu Bakr and Omar, * salah is
mentioned repeatedly.
Omar would send letters to his governors
and he would say, the most important thing
for me
to you guys is * salah. Take care
of your salah. Umar Khattab, when he was
stabbed, right? He was stabbed, right?
By Abu al Majusi.
You know,
he stabbed, like his whole stomach is ripped
open, right? With with a knife and poison.
When he wakes, kind of gets consciousness, what
does he say?
What does he say? He said that Did
they complete the salah? Because it was done
when he was praying the salah. He asked
them, Did they complete the salah? SubhanAllah.
To see where salah was,
okay, in the life of of of of
the Sahaba Radiallahu
Anhul.
Like some of the benefits of salah I'd
like to hear from you guys, okay? Just
so Yani, it's not me talking, I can
have some more inshallah. What are some of
the benefits of salah? We can think of
them as individual benefits, communal benefits, You Allah
Bismillah. Put your hands up and let's hear
some some some benefits.
With the talk.
Mhmm. Jameel, Jameel.
Did you guys hear that? So when you
go to the salah, this is such a
great You have to compare it with other
cultures and nations to appreciate this,
right?
Those who go to the masjid, they get
to meet each other. And subhanAllah, as human
beings we need to see others. We need
to meet people. We need to interact. We
need to For one of the beautiful things
is that you get to see your fellow
Muslims. You get to know their state. Someone
lost their job. Someone is sick. Someone is
that. Right?
So this is one of the great benefits
of of a salah. Right? Do we have
to wait all
We have to wait till 8 to see
to see your cousin, to see your friend?
That you can see them in the in
the masjid,
and and especially like in salah, in in
Jum'ah, etcetera. What else? What else? What are
some of the the nah, tudal.
It organizes his life
and
and especially like when when you miss fajr,
you have a bad day, right? Right? This
is I think someone who all experienced, and
when you pray your prayers,
alhamdulillah, whatever happens, even ups and downs, you're
good. You're good. Why? Because you're like, you
know I prayed my salahamdulillah. I've done my
salah. Everything else
is it's it's gonna be fixed.
Yes. One of the things is that it
helps you in your day to day life,
when your salah is there. And when your
salah is not there, right? Things happen, right?
Things happen and you have a tough day.
What else? What else, Subha?
Turdal? Discipline and like health benefits.
Jameel, it disciplines you. Yes. SubhanAllah, like
you know someone who prays salah You know
when you see someone If someone walked in
right now and he's really muscular,
mashallah,
what would you think about that person?
Like
if he told you I'm a hard worker,
would you believe him?
Halasyaani.
Like his physical, you know, appearance is proof
that he's a hard worker to ma'am. Was
salah is proof of your discipline.
Salah is proof of your discipline.
Who's
Someone who accepts at 3:30, 4 AM.
Isn't that someone who's disciplined?
And imagine the barakah,
someone who has that discipline
and wakes up and he has the most
blessed time. Nirbuzallam told us,
Right?
That my ummah is blessed in its early
times. SubhanAllah. So it gives you, it helps
you organize and be more productive. What else
did you say? Health benefits. Health benefits, yes.
How is that a health benefit?
It's interesting. Actually there are some articles written
on that. There are some research papers written
on that. Read them. They're very interesting because
even subhanAllah, even the way you sit in
salah,
the way tawarruk,
Yeah.
And the way you put your feet.
Do you think that's
random? Right?
SubhanAllah. Even the way you move, the way
you prostrate,
I'm sure a 100% there are some crazy
health benefits, right? And people
now, they'll intentionally go do some yoga or
whatever it is. Yeah. Just to get blood
flow and, you know, to relax their brain.
And it's been it's been with us for
1400 years. But we don't appreciate it until
we hear from some, you know, some some
non muslim that you need this kind of
exercise,
you know, a few times a day, and
it'll help you, you know,
with your flexibility and blood flow, madri'esh, and
it'll make you live an extra 5 years.
But we already have it with us. Yeah.
We don't have to we don't have to
research that stuff to to believe the benefits
of salah. Any other benefits that we wanna
mention, Ibrahim? Like a dopamine effect, like if
you're sick,
maybe
you feel like a bit better.
Dopamine effect. So dopamine is what? A neurochemical
that that makes you happy and feel good,
Tamam. For when a person prays
and he's connecting with Allah
He just went through a tough time. He's
connecting with
Allah right? And he's asking Allah
and he's connecting with Allah
Don't you think that has an effect on
the person's
demeanor, that person's feeling, a person's
yes. When a person enjoys a salah and
he's connecting with Allah
and he's there in the moment, and he
has Ihsaan.
And what's Ihsaan?
It's like you're worshiping Allah as if you
can see Him.
Allah can see you. SubhanAllah. When a person
prays with that level,
it becomes an enjoyable experience. So
from the events of salah, right, it's an
opportunity to escape stress and difficulty or to
seek
help as the Prophet would often do, as
he tells us to do. Right? Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala tells us, (3:3)
And is to seek help. Right? And seek
help through patience and prayer. Indeed
It's a difficult thing to do except those
who have, who have khusur. Also it keeps
one protected from evil and shameful situations. We
mentioned,
salah, inna salahatanhaanilfashahi
walmukr that as salah
prevents, should deter someone from indecency and wickedness.
Doctor. Mustafaqatab here he adds, he says, Waqams
salah, indeed genuine prayer. You had a proper
prayer.
Okay?
Salah, a sahiha. Okay?
Tanhaal fashhaunkar
waladikrullahi
Akbar and Allah
is even greater. Zikrullahi Akbar. And it's mentioned
here, Yani Adikrullahi. How do you start salah?
Takbeer. SubhanAllah. The call of salah, inshaAllah, will
go through it in the coming weeks.
It's calling you to what?
It's calling you to success.
Hayya alsalah. Hayya
al Falah. Come to success. You want to
be successful?
Come to salah. You don't want to be
successful?
Stay where you are. Subhanallah.
That's the meaning that a Muslim should understand.
That when it's Allahu Akbar and Allah is
greater than everything else, and it's mentioned more
than once so a person can
communal benefits
as the brother mentioned, right?
It helps the community get together, right? It
helps you know the state of your brother
and sister, right? How else would you know?
How else would you know if they're going
through a difficult time? You know, if they
have a celebration, they got a kid, they
got this. You'll find all of this if
they're sick, if they're ill.
All these things can happen,
through through a salah. Jameel?
Yes.
Yes. A salah is something that is prescribed
on a timely basis. It keeps your
time. And so the relationship we have with
salah is not that
we try to fit salah in. Okay?
We actually structure our life
around the salah and it will keep you
organized. Some people actually, they mentioned this benefit,
is that salah
You know subhanAllah,
for those of you who've experienced this, like
in COVID and stuff, and you have to
work from home, you don't have an actual
schedule.
So what ends up
happening?
What ends up happening? You guys tell me.
When you don't have something like to to
to kind of anchor you at different times
of the day, what ends up happening?
You end up wasting time. You don't know
when to start, when to finish. You're like,
Oh, I'm just gonna Hi, and I'll leave
everything. I have so much time. And then
you end up having like 2 hours and
you have to do like a 1,000,000 things.
Our salah actually you can Some people say
that that because of salah, I can say
You know like right now we say, Madhir
Abu Taisha is halakah.
Okay?
You know between fajr and duhah and wind
of my Quran. You know you can organize
your life around salah. SubhanAllah. I know people
when I was in Riya, you know,
for those who who wanna be kafadulquran,
it's a big task and managing the Quran
is a big task. You don't realize it
until you get into it. That you need
to be, you know, reading like 60 60
to 80 pages a day. You know, we're
talking about like 2 hours. And so to
sit down for 2 hours is difficult. So
I know some of them what they do
is they come at the adhan time
and they will do their juzah
fajr. And they'll come after adhan time, duhr,
they'll do the juzah. They can do 5
juzah. How? Because they come. There's 20 minutes
there between al iqamah, wal adhan. And so
that's how they structure their review. And subhanAllah,
that's genius, right? Because if you had to
do it in one sitting, it'd be difficult,
but they do it there, and they do
it in the masjid.
And the person who's waiting for salah is
considered as what? As a person who's praying,
subhanAllah. The person who's waiting for salah in
the masjid with the angels there is considered
like he's praying, and he's doing his Quran.
So you can actually organize your life around
salah. So the fiqh of salah. The fiqh
of salah,
we said that we are,
we are going through this book, Aqsaal Muqtasarat.
Now, alhamdulillah, we just finished at Tuharah. If
you remember last time we mentioned that,
the books of fiqh, they're divided in how
many parts?
Who remembers?
5 minus 1.
4.
Some may divide it in 5, but the
most common practice from the fuqaha is they
break it up into 4. Number 1, we
have the acts of worship. We have the
acts of The acts of worship. Right?
Then we have Al Mu'amala, transactions and contracts.
Okay? And then we have fiqhul usra,
family law, right? When we talk about talaq,
nikaah, you know,
children and
And then we have criminal law and judicial
procedure. We have al jinayat, wal kudood, capital
punishment,
right? Al Khaddah,
judgment. So these are the 4 kind of
main chunks of fiqh. We are now still
in the act of worship, al Ibadah. Al
Ibadah usually is what most people cover, and
then they don't cover the rest. InshaAllah our
intention is to cover,
kind of a whole text
of fiqh.
A beginner fiqh to cover kind of the
whole sharia, so you can get a taste
of the sharia of Islam and how it
connects together.
Because unfortunately, you know, many of us
There's priority, which is that's why we started
with the priorities. But many of us we
just study a few parts of Islam, and
we don't understand how the rest connects.
We don't we never study the fiqh of
business. And that's wajib on many of us.
We deal with money everyday,
we deal with contracts,
we deal with partnerships,
you know, we deal with person gets married
doesn't know the fiqh of of marriage. Tawkeef,
how
And then problems happen. You don't know your
rights or your rights. The person wants to
have a child. You don't even know the
rights of the child. You don't know hakukulililwalat.
A man came to Imam Malik and he
says, you know, he came with a baby
and he says, What are the rights of
this child? Imam Malik says, You're too late.
You should've came before he even chose his
mother because the right from the rights of
the child is to choose a righteous mother
for him. SubhanAllah.
These are all things that are connected to
our day to day life. So we finished
alpahara,
and now we're in salah. So usually we
study purification,
and then salah, and then zakah. So haj,
And then some of the fuha, they put
the book of jihad in here, in the
'ibadah. Some of them put it after, and
then we have transactions and contracts like, hamdulillah.
So this is kind of where we are.
I like to always have a kind of
a picture of where we are in our
fiqh journey. So the text that we're studying,
we started with Tahara and we mentioned and
we just kind of review
that why, why pick a book of fiqh?
Why? Well, this is the tradition of the
'ulama'. This is the tradition of,
of, of the fuqaha,
of the scholars of jurisprudence of fiqh, is
that their tradition of the ta'alaan When the
Quran came down and the hadith came down,
did they come down as like a system,
like a fiqh book? No. The Quran is
not a book of fiqh, but in it
as rulings. And in the hadith are rulings.
So scholars came later to make it easy
for people to understand, and so they would
put it together and they would organize it
and they would say, This
is what a person is responsible for. This
is what a mukhalaf is responsible for. Tamam?
So from those books is Aqsa al Muqtasarat.
This is one
of the the kind of the shortest books
you can find in the hambal I fiqh,
and we said that usually the fuqaha, they
will have a beginner text. We're studying a
beginner text. And that's why we don't we're
not gonna go through all the proofs and
all the disagreements in the madhab and all
the Right? And then they would come up
with an intermediate book, and then an advanced
book, and then an encyclopedia
that compares
all the madhab.
So here in the hambali madhab, you would
start with this, and then you would start
intermediate book like Al Muqner from Ibn Khudama,
and maybe like Al Kafi from Ibn Khudama,
and then Al Muqrin. Al Muqrin would be
like your encyclopedia.
Al Muqrin would be like you know a
10, 15 volume book where he will come,
Ibn Khudama Al Muqdasi
he will come and he will tell you,
The Hanabi said this about
the time of Salah. The Hanafi said this,
this this this, and this madhab is right
because XYZ. That's what the highest level of
comparative fiqh. We're not there yet, we shouldn't
be there. That would take, yeah, I mean,
ages. But we wanna at least do, go
through a madah that is organized.
Someone might say, Well, what if I'm following
the khanafi madah? What if I'm following That's
fine. As long as you follow one of
the madahib that the ummah has agreed upon,
then,
then you have you have done the ibadah
properly because it is accepted by the umma.
So we're covering this Aqsaal Muftasarat
by
Ibn Balban,
Alhambali, right? Who was born in
15/97.
How many years ago was that?
Right? About 300 something. Is it 300 something?
Yeah.
In the region of Salihyah. When we had
our, when we had our
quiz last week,
there was a question. Where was,
you know the Mu'alif, the author from? One
of the options was Calgary.
Somebody chose Calgary. I don't know who it
was.
So he's not from Calgary.
He's from
Salihyah region in Dimashq. And if you study
the history of the Hanabilah,
a lot of them were in the area
of Dimashq, right? Kind of
like, that area was all called, kind of
Dimashq,
and so a lot of them were in
the area of Jordan and Syria.
Yeah. And Ibn Khudama was also in that
area. Ibn Taymiyyah was in that area. A
lot of them were there. So he passed
away in 16/72,
probably about 350 years ago.
Jimmy,
let's what are we going to be covering
in, in, what time is Salah? 9 25,
one test. We're almost done. What are we
going to be covering in, in the fiqh
of salah? One
thing to keep in mind is when you
any, anytime you study fiqh of salah, what
else is included?
Anybody remember?
Tahara? No, we already covered Tahara. There's something
is covered.
Sometimes
they are suha separated.
Kitabul
starts with jeem.
Jeem.
Jannah
is, right? The funeral prayer, right? And the
the rituals of the funeral prayer when a
person dies, that is also included in in
as salah. So we'll also be covering that.
So the first thing that we'll be covering
inshaAllah is the ruling of the prayer. The
first thing you will see is, he will
give you the ruling of the prayer. We'll
study the adhan and the iqamah. We'll study
the description
of the prayer. We will study the pillars
and the obligations. Remember we talked about al
arkhan, wal walwajibat,
the prostration
of forgetfulness. What is this? Salatul?
Salatul sahu, right? Maydoo sahu. This is a
big mess'allah. Something that many of us, we
always get confused,
right? But we have to get this down
because this is something that you need to
you need to know how to do.
Because if you're praying by yourself or one
day you have to lead the salah,
you have to know the ruling of the
forgetfulness.
The prostration of forgetfulness.
Voluntary prayers, right? And nawafil, extra prayers.
Congregational prayer. Obligatory,
not obligatory.
Okay?
The prayer of the sick, salatul marih.
Shortening the prayer. What can we shorten? What
can we And that's why, by the way,
Kitabu
Salah is the longest,
always the longest chapter in fif. So like,
you know,
the tahara,
I think was
like 20 pages in the book. So this
is about 60. So it's gonna be like
3 times as long. Right? So if it
took us, I don't know, 2 months,
and it might take us
till 2025 maybe. I don't know. We'll see,
insha'Allah.
We'll see. But
combining
the prayer. Yeah. When is it, when are
you allowed to combine the prayer? When
are you not? Salat Al Khawf. Right? Salat
Al Khawf. What's salat Al Khawf? What's salat
Al Khawf by the way?
Nah. When you're well, I mean, you can
say war, but anytime that you're in a
state of Khawf, right? Or fear or fear.
You know, one time I heard a story
from,
one of the brothers, subhanAllah, who was
falsely accused and he was taken to to
Guantanamo. Right? You can hear his story on
YouTube.
And he had he was mentioning how
he was on this
Yani
aircraft, and he's like half naked and a
bag on his head,
right? Is this a state of khawf?
If this is not khawf, I don't know
what's khawf. Right? And there's soldiers around him
talking, he can't see anything, you know, he's
probably hungry, starving. He doesn't have bahar aslan.
And there's another Muslim next to him,
SubhanAllah.
And he says to him, and alhamdulillah, may
Allah subhanahu wa'amaka is like this brother.
His first concern is he turns to his
brother and he says, Have you prayed madrul
salah? SubhanAllah. He says, Have you prayed madrul
salah? And he says, I want you to
And I can't imagine, you're in this plane,
a bag on your head, you don't know
what's happening, am I gonna live, I'm gonna
die, I'm gonna He says, Have you prayed
madrul salah? He said, No. He said, Let's
pray together. They actually prayed jama'ah,
you know, in the middle of the air,
in an aircraft
with no tahara. Because as we'll see now,
when you can't do tahara, we mentioned in
the book of tahara, right? That a person
can't do tahara, he's not a sait, then
he will pray. And he will pray in
the most minimum way, and then he prayed
subhanahu. So that's salat al hawfi. Anyhow, what's
he gonna do? You know, he's gonna pray
in the best way that he can. Maybe
they prayed with their eyes, maybe they prayed
with their laal.
We'll cover inshaAllah the Friday prayers salatul jum'ah.
And inshaAllah,
if I forget, remind me, we'll include the
etiquettes of jum'ah. This is always something that
we have to cover. You know, adabul jum'ah,
you know,
talking, the way you dress, you know, all
these things, inshaAllah, we want to mention them.
Parking. Yeah. We always have parking issues, so
inshaAllah we'll
bring it into the fiqh al sha Allah.
5 8 prayer, of course, we need to
know the fiqh al prayer.
The eclipse prayer, alhamdulillah, we already had the
opportunity to pray it last time, salatulhsuf.
And so now we get to kind of
study the fiqh of it, in which case
it happens again. Is it happening in Borino?
Okay. If we live, inshaAllah,
we'll witness the time. Then we have
the RAIN prayer.
Then we go to the chapter of funerals,
right? Washing the deceased.
How do you wash it? Who washes it?
Okay. Shrouding the deceased, covering the deceased. The
funeral prayer itself,
burying the deceased,
visiting and mourning
the deceased.
And Alhamdulillah
for the first time ever, I was able
to finish on time. Alhamdulillah. So we have
time for questions, and I think the adhan
is in 8:8
minutes.
And actually the iqamah is at 9:50.
Maybe
we'll play it a bit early. We'll see.
Questions. Miss Millah, we have time for questions
for the first time. Alhamdulillah.
Who's got questions? If it's a question for
the upcoming lessons, I'm gonna delay it.
If you have questions related to what we
covered today, good. If any other questions, inshallah,
we'll
Yeah.
Bismillah.
Your question is how is it possible that
there can be sometimes opposite opinions?
Jameel,
it's a good question and we covered this
kind of like in in Pahara and when
we talked about the fiqh, the study of
fiqh, and we had one whole section about
asbabil al khilaf bin ulama, the reasons for
khilaf. Can anybody who was here remember some
of the reasons we mentioned?
I'll give you just kind of like, I
want you to just kind of reflect on
Even now
in empirical, in the time of empirical science,
empirical evidence,
and you know, big emphasis on, you know,
Scientology and stuff, we have conflicting
opinions,
right and left, right? And those who live
long enough will remember the days where the
doctor would come on TV and he would
say, you know, he would be smoking a
cigar
or smoke and he would say, you know,
you know, you should smoke because it's good
for you.
Then
now we know it's a total opposite. Right?
The the the nusus,
one of the reasons for Ikhtilaaf
is that
we derive the ulama derive rulings
from where?
From the Quran
and the
and the hadith.
So you can if you think about it
and just try to jot down
what are some of the reasons that someone
might come up with different If I brought
you, and and sometimes you'll see,
they disagree
on the meaning of the same hadith. They'll
use the same hadith to prove the opposite
opinion.
Why? Because aslan us and we have the
incident of
don't pray, what the prophet told the Sahaba,
okay? No one shall pray in Assaf except
in
Bani Quraid.
This is the classical example that is given,
but this is Sahaba. It's not us. It's
not ulama of the past, people after them.
Companions,
they disagreed.
So some of them said, Okay. Salah the
the salah time is about to go.
And this is, it's good because we're talking
about salah. The salah time is about to
go. Did he mean don't pray asaf except
there, or did he mean let's rush?
You know,
sometimes you threaten your child, you know, if
you don't do your homework, you're gonna break
your head. Are you gonna break his head?
Hopefully you're not gonna break his head. Okay.
But why do you say that?
Why? To push him. But did Nabi salallahu
alayhi wasallam intend that or not? A group
of them said, no, we have to pray.
Others other of them took it literally.
He said, don't pray and, wati'ula, wati'rhusl.
Do you understand? And so even from the
same text,
you can derive different rulings.
As long as you have
a qualified scholar,
give you an opinion,
okay, and you see him from someone who's
righteous,
okay? And you follow that opinion, then you
are faith. You're fine. You're safe. And it's
the obligation of every Muslim to respect that,
madam. As long as it's an acceptable opinion.
Okay? So if I'm here in Salah,
right, and someone is praying with their hands
here, or someone is praying with their hands
here, I
shouldn't have to sit down and tell him,
your salah is not accepted. You shouldn't do
that. This is closer to the Because we
have multiple narrations and multiple opinions, and it's
acceptable,
and so we should be flexible with that.
We should be flexible. There are times when,
you know, if in a Muslim country where
they will choose a madhab,
okay, just for the kind of the organization
of the people and stuff, and you would
have to follow that opinion out of respect.
But you can just see, even now Okay.
Thayb,
the the ayah. Is the ayah abrogated or
not?
We have ayahs that have been abrogated. Thayb,
how do you know if it's abrogated or
not? You need to know when it was
revealed. Some durations are weak that show when
it was revealed. And then you go to
the hadith. You have sometimes conflicting hadith. One
came before and one came after. Then you
have ulama who never got all the hadith,
and ulama came after that had more access
to hadith. And so there's multiple reasons why
there can be khilaf. Khilaf can come from
lucca.
The one you mentioned about,
having to redo your ruku.
Imam al Shafi understood
al mess as different.
And
al Shafi'i
is is, when it comes to lucca, he's
up here. Right? And so it's
you'd have to have a really good argument
to argue with Shafi'i because he has his
lucca is very good. His language is very
good, and he saw mess mess here as
actual physical touching.
We have,
Yani texts that also show al mess can
it's a
it's a metaphor for
for for being intimate, or
something that is from a sexual nature.
This is where the khilaf comes, right?
Jimeen. Right? And so sometimes the a'lim does
not Yeah. He does not have
all the hadith with him, or he might
doesn't have an authentic narration of that hadith.
Right? And then Imam Ahmed comes after him,
and he has an authentic narration of this
hadith. So, and Imam Ahmed is a student
of Imam Shaffiri, so then he says, you
know what? No. This seems like the more
right opinion. And all of them said,
from Abu Hanifa,
from
from from Imam Malik, from Shafi'i, all of
them said, You know, if any of my
opinions go against, you know, the prophet said,
You reject it. Believe it. Ta'ma. But from
a positive sense there's a lot of benefits
that come from that as well. Because it
brings ease to the ummah.
There's, you know,
opinions that make it easier on people, right?
And taban here, we have to be careful
not to cherry pick and not to fattwush
up and things like that. And that goes
back to the person and and his Lord.
If someone is truly seeking the truth
right? And the thing is, when a person
is convinced of something, they should do follow
it. Right? And they shouldn't follow, I hope
that kind of answers your question,
So we should always respect
difference of opinion as long as it's an
accepted opinion. But if someone comes here and
starts praying Maghrib by, like, you know, you
know, by doing,
you know, flips or something like that or
he prays with his hand like this. We
don't have any written narration like that. So
if someone wants to pray like that, you
know, he would have to bring us proof.
Sahih.
That wouldn't be something accepted. But if someone
you see people pray like this, pray like
this, pray like that.
Nothing
Taib,
any other questions?
No, no. From an angle you can see
it as a rahma. You can see it
as a rahma.
You can see it as, as,
You know, if you think of some of
the things that we, you know, had we
all had to follow the opinion of Mahmoud
Shafi'i,
it would be tough. It would be tough.
There would be a lot of wudu.
You
know, nobody would be able to. Some of
the opinions do make it difficult and some
of the opinions make it easy. Yani, this
is ichdihad. You know? But there are things,
and I wanna mention this. This is important
to understand. There are things that are taqri.
Yani, there are things that are there's ijma'
on them. Ijma' meaning
everybody agreed upon.
So nobody disagreed about the amount of rakkaal
duhr. Right? So there are things that are
tatari. There's ijma'a consensus.
There's no nobody can come and and and
play with them. Right?
Because once ijma'a is done, khalafs. Nobody can
come and change that. But there are things
that are Ijtihad.
The island had to use some of his
logic, some of his, you know,
mantak to figure it out, and and that's
acceptable as long as
and we have a hadith where the Muslim
said that the Qadi, if you know, he
will get 2 rewards if he's right, with
his itchy hat, right? And he'll get one
reward if he's wrong. As long as he's
qualified to do it, and he's qualified to
do it, and he does it. If he's
right, alhamdulillah, if he's not right, then alhamdulillah
as well.
Yeah. This is one of the difficult more
difficult questions to answer. If someone
he's a student of the Sheikh e Madhub,
right, and he's studying the Madhub,
and he wants to try to be consistent.
Right? So that he can be yeah, and
he can
kind of perfect the the rulings of of
a Madhub. He doesn't want to, like, jump
around. And he gets to a ruling that
what, that is difficult for him, you say?
Here's the thing. If it's difficult for him
for legitimate reasons,
okay, he might be able, if he's at
a level of of ichthyadian, a level of
understanding that Dalil, and he sees it's not
about difficulty. Here's
I'll solve your
problem. It's not about difficulty. It's about what
you see as right. So as a student
of knowledge, he will look at the evidences
and if he sees
that
the the the hambile madhhab
are more correct, then it would be okay
for him to follow that. Because what you're
responsible for is to is to follow what
you believe is right. So any scholar, any
scholar,
he has to follow
what he believes is right.
That's the logic on him. Okay? So if
he believes this opinion is right, he will
follow it whether it's difficult to him or
not. So it's not about real difficulty. Now
there are instances where Du'an Ahmad, they will
allow a person to take the easier opinion
for for in case of difficulty. If it's
there's
a difficulty for them,
it will make their life very hard. Right?
Because from the qawah and of the fiqh,
is that, you know,
Allah
wants ease for us. Allah doesn't want difficulty
for us, but that's
that goes back to the alam
and the fatwa that he gives for that
specific person.
Because we know, the mashaka
can make some some things,
acceptable.
Mashaka difficulty.
Adarura.
Difficult situations. And so that would have to
be, 1 on 1 for that person. But
difficulty doesn't is not a reason. Right? So
if someone knows that this is the truth
and he finds it difficult,
yeah, I need Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala test
him with that.
You know, like, he has to try his
best.