Shadee Elmasry – 7 The Prayer Itself
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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
Alameen Rahman Al Rahim, Malik Yama, Dean a year Ken Abu e Kana
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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.