Shadee Elmasry – 7 The Prayer Itself

Let's

start looking at the details of how to pray. You There are four

positions, all of the prayer only consists of four positions. And

there are going to be four things that you need to memorize for sort

of longer form things that you're gonna need little passages, little

prayers that you're going to need to memorize. So the standing

positions are or the physical positions or the standing, which

we call PM, don't worry about the Arabic but I'll say it anyway just

so that you can hear it. pm standing. Bowing, oh, cool.

prostrating sujood and Siddiq Julius. Okay, so these are the

four positions and the prayer will be basically moving through these

four positions in different ways. And the fourth things that you're

going to memorize the first one is the Fatiha.

This is the opening prayer which you're going to repeat in every

prayer. The second is any verse of Quran, even a verse, right short

sutra, or chapter or even just one verse. The third thing that you're

going to memorize is called a to hear. And then the fourth thing is

called a Salah al Ibrahim Iya. So we're going to look over these.

When we get to each one. You begin the prayer in the standing

position by raising your hands like so and saying Allahu Akbar.

And then immediately reciting Fattah Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil

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Alright, so that is suited Fatiha, which is the first thing that

you're going to try to commit to memory and understanding as well.

But the understanding can come later you just memorize it for

now.

And then you recite any small SUTA even a verse like put it who Allah

who say, Allah is one. All right, or say that the actual translation

is say, the great affair or the great matter is that God is one.

Okay, so whether you recite a small chapter or just even a verse

is sufficient. After that you're going to enter into core, this is

the core position right here. So you're going to have your hands on

your knees and your back as straight as possible. My back here

is trying to be as straight as possible, your hands on your knees

with your knees slightly bent, because you're not leaning

requires not leaning and taking a break. It's just you have your

hands slightly bent, or your knees slightly bent on your hands on

your knees, not on your thighs, not inside, not down here, right

on your kneecaps. This is called the record position. And in every

position, you need to observe stillness, okay, for of your

spine, and your limbs for at least a moment. That's it. All right, at

least a moment, you're going to be still. So in this position, you

are going to say Subhana be allow the and if you don't know that,

you can simply say Subhan Allah. And if you haven't learned that

you can say anything like La ilaha illAllah.

The third position of the prayer is that you rise from ROCOR back

up to standing. And in this, you have to know something else, which

is a very short phrase, of semi Allahu Lehmann Hamidah. In every

single movement of the prayer, we initiate this change of position

to position by saying Allahu Akbar, except when we're in the

Roku opposition, when we're bowing, and we rise, then we say,

Okay, send me Allah will even Hamidah which means God, here's

the one who thinks him. And the reason that came about is that the

best friend of the Prophet Abacha was praying next to the Prophet

one day, and they were in record and his heart basically, in his

heart, he thought he was so thankful to Allah. Okay, that he's

made him a follower of the final messenger. And so Allah revealed

to the Prophet directly that he has, he has heard and accepted and

loved his gratitude. So the Prophet rose up and said, God here

is the one who thinks him. Okay, and we now say that Semia Allahu

Lehmann Hamidah, semi Allah, Allah, Muhammad Allah, here's the

one who thinks so. And when you're standing up in that second

standing position, you're going to be thinking of your gratitude and

your thanks to your Lord. So that's the third position. Now the

fourth position is to enter into sujood or prostration. Alright,

and the prostration is upon seven limbs, your forehead

And sometimes your nose to your two palms, not your fingers, not

your, you know, your your palms, your entire palm, and then your

two knees and your two feet. Alright, and it looks like this.

As you see here, you have your forehead and your nose, your your

palms, your knees and your feet. And you want to have this type of

right angle between your knees and your, your thigh and your calf.

And then you're going to come down in this fashion, now men will have

their arms sprawled out, women can have their knees closed up and

their elbows tucked in as well. Alright, so this is very simply

the sujood position, if you notice my toes, they're slightly bent

towards the fibula, alright? And that's, you know, recommended

thing to have that all of our toes and

fingers facing the direction. Alright, so this is how sujood is

done. Notice elbows are up, elbows are never down, you'd never want

to put your elbows down. Alright, elbows are always going to be up.

So this is the fourth position. So we said standing, bowing, standing

again, then prostrating. Now, unlike the bowing that occur, the

prostrating, the sujood is always in pairs. Okay, so you're going to

sit and enter into what's called the dualist position, which looks

like so you're simply sitting with your hands on your knees or on

your thighs, and your feet tucked in behind you. All right, and

upright, that's it, and you make sure you'd be still for a moment,

it's very simple. This is called the Zulus position. Okay? And then

you're going to enter into frustration again. So remember,

frustration is always in pairs. So sujood Juuso sujood, again, all

right now in the sujood position, you're going to say Subhana, BL

Allah, which means glory to my Lord Most High. When you come up

from sujood, and you sit down, you say nothing. Then you go back into

sujood. And you say it again. Subhan Allah three times. And in

the sujood, though, is where the greatest dua of a Muslim lies. All

right, the Prophet peace be upon him said you never closer to your

Lord than you are when your institute. So to Judah is a time

and a place for intense supplication, you spill out your

desires and your fears. Now you can do this. According to the bulk

of scholars. If you don't speak Arabic, then you do this in your

mind. But according to some scholars, they say yes, you may

speak it in in English or in any language, okay, your DUA in such

debt can be in any language. However,

to avoid the difference of opinion there, then it might be better to

just do it in one's mind. Okay, if one doesn't speak Arabic. All

right.

All right. So those were the positions of the prayer, and what

to say in each position. Now we have to talk about something else.

All right, there is a time when we're going to rise from our

second prostration and stay seated. Okay. And this will happen

in the second and last unit of prayer. So each what I just said

is a unit or Raka. All right now, in the second odaka, and in the

last Raka, we're going to add something and that thing is called

a to hear and it is to say the following a to hear to dilla Zakia

Tula a Salawat to a three year bachelor, a salam alayka a Johanna

EBU Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh As salam o Elena, who are either

either the law has sila hint, a shadow Allah, Allah illallah wa,

the whole last Jedi Killer was shadow anna Muhammad, Abdul

Rasulo. So what does that all mean? The translation was there,

and you could just pause it and look at the translation as well.

Now what is this all mean, when the Prophet was ascended to Allah

to Allah and spoke to God directly, he gave this greeting.

And then Allah replied to him with a benediction or Prayer of Peace.

And then the Prophet then also prayed for the other prophets, and

for all the believers. And then he we testify again, the long form of

the testimony of faith, which is a bear witness that there is none

worthy of worship but Allah one without partner, and that Muhammad

is a servant and messenger. So this is called the to hate now,

when do we say this to hear in the second and last raka of every

prayer? Okay, now we know that there's some prayers that only

have two rockets, that's fine, so it's only the second one. Now,

there's yet another thing that we have to discuss, which is

something called a Salah al Ibrahimi. And when are we going to

say the salah Ibrahim Iya. We're going to say this

This in the sitting position of the last raka of every prayer we

said that we're going to say that to heya in the second and the last

right, while the salah Ibrahim iya, we only say it in the last we

add that on. So in the last raka of every prayer before raka being

the unit, we also say, a Salah al Ibrahimi, which is as follows

Allahumma Salli ala Muhammad while early Mohammed, what her Mohammed?

What Allah Muhammad wa barik ala Muhammad, while early Muhammad

came also later What are him do about Okta, Allah Ibrahim, while

early Ibrahim, Phil Allah Amina in Nikka, Hamid and Majeed.

So this you're going to memorize as well. Okay, it's called the

slightly Brahimi.

Now let's talk about how many units each prayer is or Americas.

So the first prayer of the day when the sun is still coming up,

is only to rock us. The second prayer is for rockets, which means

that in the second Raka, we're going to have the Tehila in the

fourth Africa, when we're sitting down, we're going to have the two

here plus the sulla Ebrahimian.

The third prayer known as a loss is also for ruckus, which means

we're going to have the Jehovah in the second and in the fourth we're

gonna have to hear plus Salah Ibrahimi

in the fifth sorry, in the fourth prayer of the day, there are three

raucous which means we're going to have the to hear here in the

second Anika and the to hear plus Salah Ibrahim Iya. In the third

record,

the last prayer of the day is Alicia. Okay, which is when the

light is completely out. And that is for our cars. And again, to

hear in the second aka to hear plus Salah Ibrahim iya in the

fourth Raka.

Alright, we're almost done. Another thing we need to discuss

is allowed or silent. When we say aloud, we only talk about we're

only talking about the first two records of the prayer. So if

someone says Maghrib is allowed, he doesn't mean all of them. He

only means a the first two records and be only the first standing

portion, which is the fact that plus the SUTA afterwards, so not

the whole prayer is not allowed when you're bowing you don't say

it aloud when you're prostrating you don't say it aloud. The last

raka isn't allowed that to hear and the salah Ibrahimi are not

allowed.

Okay, so only the standing portion, and only in the first two

Americas. So, Allahu Akbar, and the fetch at hamdulillah out of

Allah Allah means to the end and the short sunnah that you're going

to recite are going to be allowed. And when does this happen? The

rule of thumb, whenever the sun is out, the Salah is silent. So sun,

silent, okay, when the sun the sun is down beneath the horizon, which

is the first and the last two prayers, then they are out loud.

And again, when we say out loud, we're only talking about the first

two units and only the standing portion of those units.