Mustafa Khattab – Salah Mistakes
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If you do it in a bad mechanic,
it's a routine.
You pray just because other people are praying
or you're fasting Ramadan because everyone in the
house, is fasting and you eat babluba bablava
at the end of the day. Because everybody
else is doing it.
It is not because you feel like it's
an obligation. You are fulfilling an obligation
sincerely for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa'am.
How do you know mechanical worship? It doesn't
impact you in life. It's a routine.
Okay?
What is the point when you pray 5
times a day, but you are alive?
What is the point if you don't catch
every ear, but you are asleep?
What is the point if you give salamat
to the people and you cheat?
So this is for sure 100%
it's a mechanical portion.
Because for example, Allah subhanahu wa'ala is telling
us in the Quran,
in the salah that thatna alaykum shaywah muba,
the genuine salah, the sincere salah
will allow you to do all sorts of
bad deeds.
You will look at 2 people praying in
the masjid. They are like these 2 cups.
They look the same from the outside, but
one is empty and one is cold.
It's the inside
is what affects your salah and whether it's
genuine or mechanical.
Okay.
If shaha
shaha'ala Allahu and the women of Rasulah.
If you you say it mechanical, but you
don't mean it in your heart, it becomes
more or less like chanting or saying.
It doesn't affect
you. It doesn't come from your heart.
When you do a mechanic of salah, it
is
more or less like yoga.
There's no spirituality
in it.
When you, do fasting Ramadan,
mechanically,
it becomes more or less as if you
are gonna die.
There's no spiritual death.
When you give second, mechanically, it becomes like
paying you a GST.
You pay a tax. You pay it as
no second.
When you do your hunch mechanically,
then it becomes more or less like physical
exercise.
All the jumping and jogging and walking, coming
back and all that stuff. There's no difference.
But again, to be genuine, it has to
come from your heart, these acts of worship,
and you have to mean it, and you
have to do it purely for the sake
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, and it has
to impact the way you behave towards other
people.
Okay. We have 24 hours a day, for
the day and the night.
Allah Subhanahu Wa'ala is giving you
24 hours a day, and the only thing
he's asking for is only 24 minutes. So
for every hour you have in a day,
you give 1 minute to Allah, and the
59
minutes are for you. But still,
many people are not willing to give that
much to Allah Subhanahu Wa'ala.
So when you pray, for example, this is
a way of showing gratitude to Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. What is the proof? In the
authentic khanim, when the prophet SAW Hassan used
to pray
Allah at night until his feet were swallowed,
and
Allah is a link between you and Allah,
and it comes from the root word
salah.
Salah, salah. And the word salah in Arabic
is lane.
So when you pray,
you communicate with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So
this is your link.
Imagine if you have that link, uplink, between
you and a lost panel of Allah 5
times a day.
When I get a cup, when they come
to me for counseling,
and they are fighting each other, shooting each
other, calling 91, and you know, I just
asked. The first question I asked him, do
you pray?
And most of the time, 95%
of the time, I get the same ask,
why, frankly, we don't pray.
So I tell them, if you don't have
this link with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, you
don't pray,
everything else will be okay. But if your
salah is messed up,
you will be messed up completely.
Expect the worst to come.
Number 3, the last word
the
mission
with, he would have used because Sala is
the most important thing in Islam, he used
to seal his mission with these words, salah.
The prophet
received all the orders to give salatah and
zagah and make Hajj and fasting to the
earth. Jibril alaihi salaam will come to him
and tell him, okay, this is how to
give zagah, this is how to fast, this
is how to make ham.
If I have an employee
and I want to tell him to do
something that is not important, I'll just send
him an email.
If it is more important, I will just
give him a call.
If it is a very serious issue, I
will ask my employee
to take to to take the flight from
Toronto to buy a ticket and come all
the way to my office so I can
give them the order directly.
It means it's a very serious
Okay? And salah is the same thing.
We are told
that the closest you can get to Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala is in salam.
So if you want to make dua and
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will most likely accept
your dua,
If you are old or you don't have
the money, if you don't have the financial
or physical ability to go over the Hajj,
you don't do the Hajj.
But
Salai is the only thing that can't be
waived. Of course, there is the exception of
you pray to the best of your ability.
Even if you are in cast,
from hip to toe, you pray, they say,
even with your neck, with your eyes, and
some say, even with your arms.
With your eyes. You close your eyes halfway,
this is a court, closes all all the
way down is a sujood.
So there's no way for salam.
Okay. There is a serious punishment
mentioned in the Quran
for delaying the salah.
So the scholars say this valley of white
So this valley of light is also the
place where those who don't pray on time
will be punished.
So what about those who don't pray at
all? Okay?
So the people in the basement of the
Hellfire will be asked,
why are you here in this place, in
this horrible place,
within a place. So they got to the
basement of the Hilfar.
And Nabi SaaS Alaihi Abu Al Aqul Lali
Baynana O Baynana Musalah.
If someone doesn't pray,
in our day to day activities,
Masha'Allah, we are very alert.
But as soon as we start on the
carpet, something mysterious happens.
The people of Mashallah, they are very alert.
They don't play, and
they live a life. They join to the
fullest, but as soon as they settle that
covenant,
they start thinking about
boring activity?
It's okay, but when the imam recites
an extra ayat
in salah, so instead of taking 5 minutes
in salahulbanagi
he takes like 6 minutes,
a big big disaster.
Okay?
He's a bad man, they set up his
dish and fire him, hit somebody else, okay.
What's wrong with you and all that stuff?
How to maintain push going on
And number 2,
you have to wait for the next salah
at least
subconsciously.
After you made a salah albuwah, you make
a peace in your heart, or you have
this feeling, oh, Allah, give me life till
us, so I pray and I give the
reward. And the prophet
says, if you have this intention
that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will give you
life till the next salah, you'll give the
reward
as if you stood in salah between the
salah and the next salah,
and all that stuff in salah.
You will make a lot of mistakes, so
you have to eat first.
If you have to use the restroom before
you pray, you can't hold it anymore. Then
you go and relieve yourself again, really. So
when you stand in the salah,
Most of the time we lose pusher in
the salaam because of the shaitan. Why? The
shaitan is happening when you lose your pusher.
The reason the scholars say is
the shaitan was ordered to make sujood
that you remember you are standing before Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, the King of Kings.
You're not standing before your boss, you're not
standing before the king of this country, of
that country, you're standing before Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
And imagine
all of us, or most of us who
are,
we have bosses and directors. Imagine you are
standing in front of your boss,
he's talking to you about a serious thing,
and you keep looking at your watch
or yawning or looking outside the window or
scratching your head or digging in your nose
or
you. You throw your house behind your back,
your car, your wife, not your wife,
anything else. Okay? Behind your back. So you'll
focus only on Allah
for 5 minutes.
Habib al Assam, one of the great scholars
of Islam, he
and I have the duniya behind my back.
And I have Jannah to my right, and
I have the hamskar to my left,
and I have the sivas, the bridge between
Jannah and the hamskar under my feet. And
I have the king
or the Malik the Mount, the, the angel
of death over Meir, ready to take my
life.
And I pray in that manner, and how
do I finish? I'm not sure if my
salah is accepted or not.
You see?
So he is focusing 100%
in the salah.
The prophet
told us to look at the place where
we put our hand in salah.
You don't look at the stars.
You don't look at the pictures you have
on the wall. You have to focus, and
this is this gives you the ability and
focus when you pray.
Don't pray fast. Some people pray faster than
light.
Okay? They pray very fast.
They don't even know what to say.
Okay. This is one way to know if
you pray mechanically or not. Most of the
time, if you pray mechanically,
you have to be called when
and also say in the words of the
prophet, like the optional
prayers after because the prophet
said in the Muslim
For the coming 15 minutes or so, and
this is the last part of the talk,
we will show you about 19 to 20
pictures of mistakes in the salah.
You will find the mistake,
as we said before, don't keep looking at
the wall, man. Especially, if you have pictures
on the wall.
You look at the wall, you see the
picture of your wedding man and your wife.
Oh my God. Why did I do that
mistake, man?
And you see her?
Some people
okay.
What is watching? Yeah. Watching TV.
You. Yeah. Good.
He needs to use the bathroom because some
people, they want to minimize
minimize the
number of times they give udu.
So they want to credit 5
And the other
one is making a report like this, so
his chin is almost touching the ground.
How do we do it?
If you have a very, precious
iPad or laptop,
You may go for it, and I'm gonna
put it to your back.
If you do it like this, it's gonna
fold
back. If you do it like this, it's
gonna fold to the front. But if it's
straight,
the laptop would never fall. Okay?
So make when you make a report, just
imagine that there is a laptop,
or iPad 3 on your back. Okay?
And this is how you would move it
properly.
Yes.
The forehead and nose. Yes.
Your
knees.
So this
is 5 3.
So the 4 and the nose, 1, and
the, 2 knees, this is 3.
What else?
Yes? Mouth.
Mouth. How?
Oh, man.
Like the toes? Yes. The toes. So this
is 5. What else? Your
pulse.
The pulse of your hand. Good.
So that is 7.
1, 2,
3, 4 5. 56.
40 and the nose, this is 7. Most
of the time, people make sujood,
their nose
doesn't touch the ground. This is a mistake.
It should both of them.
Some people, they have a big
So the second one
so this is mentioned is Sahih al Bukay.
These are the 7 organs.
This is a very one of the most
common mistakes in the salah.
The prophet, the prophet, the prophet, the prophet,
the prophet, the prophet, the prophet, the prophet,
the prophet, the prophet, the
kadim,
strengthen your lions. When you cry, strengthening the
lions is part of the salamis.
So you have to strengthen the lions.
This problem happens
most of the time when we start a
new line behind the Iran.
So what is the problem?
Okay.
Someone else, you have to start from the
middle. Exactly.
You start a new line right behind the
imam. Some people start from the far left,
some people start from the far right, and
what they do basically, they keep pulling people
to the side, either to the right or
the left. So when they start in the
left or the right, when someone is standing
in the middle,
they give her the wicked look, and they
start pulling them to the sides.
What about this one?
People do these things in the salah.
Someone else? Someone here?
So they
move before the imam. They make sujood and
ruku before him. Okay.
Some people do the opposite. They think the
imam is not praying properly,
so they are, like, half an hour
When the Imam makes sujood, makes sujood, ruqoor,
ruqoor.
And you stop moving
when the Imam is done speeding.
So when the Imam says, Alayhi Alla for
Ibn Hamida, as
So I was,
reciting in.
The last 2, a couple of pages from
the Quran. They are very short, so I
squeezed
these 7 Surahs in 1 rak
and I used to, like, between the 2
Surahs, I used to say
So every time I I said
he would go to report.
He did it 7 times in the same
lakkah. He said you drove me nuts.
I told him you are too fast, you
have to wait for me to finish.
And also, you notice this
in the last lakah,
after the imam raises and says from the
court and he's ready to to, to say
dua, and Ruth at the end,
Yes.
You look at them and you feel like
they hate each other.
Okay?
Like they,
they, they don't like each other, so they
keep along a big distance between each other.
Most of the people,
there is no reason for this. Some sisters
also need some space.
I was told because it's hard for them
when it is very tight
to move.
I remember one time in Ramadan, I heard
this story.
Roberts, you know, get close to each other.
Go let the shaitan pray between you.
So one of them got mad and said,
okay.
What's wrong with you? Let the shaitan come
and pray to rakats. Maybe I'll they will
visit him in
what's someone named brother here?
He's giving love.
Yes. When the imam rasay is fati Abu
Rasad with him.
Okay?
The prophet was in salah
and in the middle of the salah he
heard a lot of noise in the back,
Muslim Muslim people falling down and screaming.
What's going on? So after the salah, so
the prophet
said what happened?
Okay.
The prophet made
Ruqur.
He wanted to pass the report with the
prophet
so he made Ruqur all the way to
the door till the middle of the masjid,
like he was making like this
to make Ruqur.
But don't you ever do it again.
This is the last time. Okay?
So don't rush.
Yes?
Yes. No. He's not making jokes. They're not
praying. They're waiting for salah.
Yes. This brother
is coming from the back to sit in
the front.
Okay. If you come late for Salah, it
happens in Joach, it happens in the rest
of the prayers. If you come late,
sit in the back. If you come early,
sit in the front. Okay? This is how
it
works.
This is easy.
Walking in front of the lines.
Okay?
Don't walk in front of the lines.
Okay? Give the people some space. And the
prophet says in the authentic hadith, if the
person who passes in front of the lines
knows the sin, he or she encouraged they
should wait for 40 years, another narration, before
they pass in front of someone.
Because of the Qur'an, they're for sure in
the salah. But if someone passes in front
of another brother or sister,
So if you are pregnant in your house
and your wife or your kid passes right
in front of you and it happens all
the time,
they'll start shooting an animal. Okay? It's not
a big deal. You will miss, some rewards,
This is what we are calling the Quran.
So the
make sure you cover yourself properly.
The Awla, mawalla, and mafafa, starts with the
nee. Tell the,
the, the the Bilbaba.
This is the hour for them, so make
sure you cover yourself properly. Some problems, it
happens all the time when they play soccer
with me.
They have shorts, and their shorts are too
short.
This is why they call it shorts. Okay?
They we tell them to cover their jeans
when they make coupons. So what they do
basically, they start pulling down the shorts.
Dude,
they have a problem
up there. Okay?
So in this case, it is better for
you to cover your in the back than
cover your knees.
Okay? This is the lesser of 2 years.
How about this one?
Yes?
Someone new.
Yes. He's crying. He's crying in the salah.
It
happened to me several
times
where Islamic is salah,
Okay?
Some people okay.
You feel it. They stand next to you
in their salah, and you get that smell,
man, and you literally collapse in the salah.
You feel like they haven't changed their socks
in 3 years, for some. Okay? They still
like dead rats.
And I remember one one brother came in,
like, a year ago.
He was a homeless brother,
and, you know, he had a miserable situation.
Maybe he he didn't take a shower
or he moved or something.
It's not perfect, but some people when they
smoke I'm allergic to smoke to, cigarettes. Okay?
Again, it's it's very,
disturbing
for me to stand next to someone
in the Salaf and they smell like cigarettes.
This is the worst. Okay? Make sure you
change your smell before you come to the
Salaf. Choose some, gum or something.
Okay. Okay.
Okay.
It's no connection.
Their phones
I read in a book,
for solemn mistakes. You should say Amin after
the iman. Yes.
Yes. You should say Amin in the end
of the,
Fatima
because, actually, the Fatima is a dua.
Usually, the imam says it with the people.
Say it with the imam. It's not a
big deal.
Questions now from the sisters?