Shadee Elmasry – How to Pray Full Video
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Na Salatu was Salam ala Rasulillah. Before we get into the
prayer, there are five preconditions that a Muslim has to
observe before praying. And we're going to look at the bare bone of
this, we're not going to get into details. Because these said, the
set of videos are made is made for people who are just learning how
to pray, and need to learn how to pray in like a week or a day. And
we're not going to get into the details for that reason. So the
first precondition of the prayer is the entrance of the time. So we
have to pray on time. Now, you can pray to Allah, anytime, in any
language in any place, except for disrespectful places like the
bathroom, you wouldn't pray in the bathroom, for example. But there's
an obligatory ritual prayer, which has another function. Okay, number
one, it's the most important prayer. Number two, it actually
brings our people together brings Muslims together, right, because
this Prayer must be done at the Select times, in the same exact
way, in the same language. And the same form, whether from the time
of the Prophet until today, whether it's China, Brazil,
America,
wherever we are, 2020 1820 1920 1720 doesn't
matter. This prayer is done in the same exact way. There's also a
great wisdom regarding the prayer time itself, which is that if
someone says to you pray right now, your sincerity is not there,
it's not coming from you. But at the same time, if you're given an
action, and no deadline, no structure, most of us won't do it
at all. So Allah to Allah has combined the two by giving us a
window, but also limits, right. So the within this window of time,
you're going to pray from your own self. So brings out the sincerity
of a person. But it also gives us some discipline, in that it gives
us a beginning time and an end time. You cannot pray before the
beginning. Right? And you cannot pray after it's over? Well, you
can make it up. But you shouldn't delay it past your sinful if you
delay it purposely past regarding the prayer times.
The prayer times are based on the movement of the Sun, which a brand
new Muslim does not need to know that on the spot. What you need to
know, in fact, is merely that you can get an app, you can there are
a million of these Islamic prayer finder, whatever. And the app will
basically tell you the beginning and end of each of the five prayer
times and you'll notice a quarter of the day, her half the daylight
hours, there is no prayer. So the first half of the daylight,
there's no prayer. So there's five prayers in the remaining 75% of
the 24 hour cycle, there will be five prayers and for about a
quarter of that from the sunrise all the way until the middle of
the day. There's no obligatory prayer. So it suffice as a person
just get the app, get the calendar. And that's a good way to
start the second precondition of the prayer, before we pray, we
have to remove something called near Jessa from our body. Now
Jessa is filth. Okay, and the Sharia now we all consider certain
things filthy, right? But when it comes to the prayer, Islamic law
or the Sharia tells us there are certain things that we cannot pray
on with that stuff on our skin, on our clothes, for on the place of
our prayer. And all we would have to do is wipe it away with water.
The stain, if it leaves a stain, that's fine, but we have to wipe
it away with water. So what are these things that we call this the
concept or the filth is an agenda and you have to remove an agenda
from yourself and the first thing is flowing blood. So that means a
scrape, no problem. But flowing blood is a problem. A blood excuse
me a blood stain, no problem, but flowing blood is the problem.
Secondly, anything that comes out of the front or the back of the
human being
or animals, okay with one exception, which I'll get into in
a second. So urine, deification, anything that would come out of
the front or back of a human being or animals is
nervous, okay, and we would have to wipe it away. Before we pray.
You don't have to clean the whole garment. You would just have to
clean that area of majesta with pure water. We're like regular
water and then you can use soap if you want to after that. But first
you need to use regular water.
The exception is animals that we eat. Okay, so a sheep if you
stepped in the droppings of a sheep is not considered nudges.
Okay, all right. It's not the sheep droppings.
is not in the Gesa. A bird dropping is not considered in the
Jessa. Okay, so you don't have to worry about the identification the
or urine of animals that we eat, it's not considered and that
that's practicality to farmers would always be not just at that
point or having a decimal. Alright, so
the next thing is anything that comes out of your intestines, so
you vomit, acid reflux in your esophagus, that's not just good.
Fourth thing, any oozing pus or whatever that oozes out of an
injury isn't just a fit thing. In toxic, it's in their liquid form.
So if you have an intoxicant in its dry form, it's obviously
forbidden for us to consume intoxicants of any kind, or
anything that harms your health is actually forbidden. But if it's a
an intoxicant, that's dry, even if it's on your body, like the dust
of it is on your body, you can still pray with it. Okay, you just
can't consume it. But if it's in a liquid form, okay? Whether it's
beer, wine, heroin, it's at that point, the Jassa and must be
cleaned off and discarded. Alright, lastly, anything dead is
not just except for any human beings, fish from the sea. insects
that don't have flowing blood. And anything that that a Muslim
slaughtered properly. When I say fish from the sea, I mean,
anything from water, alright, that lives in water, including
amphibians, but anything that we slaughtered properly, like a cow
that you slaughtered, so as soon as, but aside from the flowing
blood, everything is pure, you can eat everything from it. So
these are the four exceptions to human being animals that are
slaughtered properly, insects that don't have flowing blood. And
fourthly, is the
animals of the sea. Even when they're dead, they're pure. Okay,
the Prophet said anything of the sea is pure. So that's a summary
of what
is a listing of things that are categorized as ninja or ritual
impurity, and you need to remove that from your close skin or place
of prayer. All right, now, the third precondition is will do, you
have to have now as I said earlier, this set of videos is for
brand new Muslims. So we're only going to talk about the seven
obligations of the prayer. The first obligation is intention. So
let's say you were to fall into a pool of water. That's not enough.
According to the vast majority of Islamic scholars, what you need to
have is you need to make the intention that you're purifying
yourself for the prayer. Okay, so the first thing, obligation is
intention. The second is the face. The third is wiping the hair, the
fourth is the arms.
The fifth is defeat, the sixth is continuity, so that you should, if
you stop to the point that you're fully dry, then you've stopped too
long, you have to redo it, and then the seven is rubbing, now you
only have to rub three things, the face, the arms, and the feet. All
right now, that's the theory of it. Now what is will do actually
look like
in the past, one of our teachers was recorded doing making will do
and he did a very slow and meticulous to show us, we're only
going to look at the obligations. So we're going to look at how he
washes his face. Okay, and gets through all the the face is
basically the hairline down to the temples, the jaw line, okay, over
the beard, not in the beard over the beard. And then you need to
get the area in your eyes, not inside the eyes, but that are near
the eyes, the crevice there and under the nose. So let's watch how
ship company of West Africa makes his will.
Right now most of us are going to be making we'll do it from a sink
he's clearly making will do from outdoors. And you notice he gets
the area in the eyes, the crevice there and under the nose and all
around the from the hairline, down the jaw
and over the beard if you have it, but you do not have to go inside
the beard. So he's basically making sure not to leave off a
single centimeter, a single millimeter of his face, he's made
sure to get everything and he's repeating it over and over so that
you can see it. But that's basically how he does it. Now, in
terms of washing, you notice you cannot you weren't washing is that
there's pouring water as well as wiping. So it has two things. You
pour the water as well as wiping there, you can splash it as long
as water is moving. So the idea is you're not just wiping the water
needs to move on your face, and then you wipe on top of that. So
that's the first thing. Now let's watch and do the arms. Watch as he
does the arms all the way to the elbow and make sure to get between
the fingers and it
Every inch of the arm the fingers everything. He's he's been very
meticulous to teach us and show us here. But you're going to get
everything you notice this religion is really a obsessed with
cleanliness, if you if you could say that it's obsessed with two
things reading and cleanliness. So it should be educated and clean.
If you're, if you're Muslim, you're educated and clean the idea
of someone being unclean. How could your hands be unclean when
you're doing this, you know, two, three times a day, you know, now
we pray five times a day. But if you don't lose your will do by the
passing gas or going to the bathroom or heavy sleep, okay,
then you don't need to make wudu again, and we'll talk about the
things that break we'll do in a second.
All right, you notice that you don't have to go in between the
toes that's a sunnah or something which is extra to be done, there
are obligations and there are Sunon. So you don't have to go
between the toes, but you do have to make sure you get the heels and
the ankles. Alright, so those two bones, you have to get them and
you have to get the heels is very important to get the heel so that
he's if you notice, he's going like up to here on the foot, he's
going up to there, he's not even going just to the bone, he's going
a little bit over the bone, as you'll see.
And he has this neat technique of slowly dripping the water and then
letting it all go. So water has to run on the foot as well.
Okay, so he's been very meticulous to make sure every single inch of
the foot is covered in will do. All right, so that's all we need
to see in terms of the live demonstration or the video
demonstration. Now, the sixth and seventh obligations of will do are
that a person has to make sure that they do their will do all at
once continuity Arabic to early, which is that if you get dry in
the middle, then you haven't fully made your you have to start over.
If you're fully dry, then you have to start over. Okay, and the
seventh obligation is the rubbing as you saw the shake, rubbing,
right very meticulously. Alright, so we also have to rub when we do
the face, arms and feet. Now once you make will do your quote
unquote upon will do, okay, until you're upon the Hatha or
purification until you do one of the following things, anything
that comes out of the front of the back. Anything that comes out of
the front of the back urine, gas, whatever comes anything that comes
out of those two organs, you have lost your will, okay, you have to
do your will do again before you pray, not not at the moment but
before you pray, or heavy sleep to the point that if you were to drop
a pen, you wouldn't realize it like heavy sleep, you lost your
wood, or touching for pleasure. If you're touching your spouse, for
example, and there's pleasure derived or you intended to derive
pleasure, then at that point, that also causes a person to lose their
will do or you have doubt any doubt whether I forgot if I made
will do or lost. So do you need to redo you so these are the basic
things that cause a person there's the fundamentals of what causes a
person to lose their wood if these things happen, you have to make
will do it again.
Remember, if impurity like blood or defecation gets on you you
don't have to make do there's a common misconception all you have
to do is wash it away with water.
Alright, so we've gone over three preconditions so far we've done
the prayer times we talked about the Jassa removing the Jessa from
ourselves, we talked about making wudu now the other two are easy.
The fourth one is covering your body. All right, so when we talk
about coverage what is coverage mean? Coverage has two attributes
it's closed that is neither dislike two negative attributes
neither form fitting nor transparent. Okay, if your clothes
is form fitting
all right, you're not covered. Like that part of your body we
don't consider it covered. Like the leggings that people wear I
know a lot of people were liking so it's very popular for people to
wear leggings right? But we as Muslims, we can't pray with that.
I mean, we wouldn't we shouldn't even wear it outside of the house
to be honest with you. Right?
But tight even for men that tight, close to his chest. He's trying to
show off all his exercise in his workout. It's not even appropriate
so the form fitting clothes if you have that wear it in the house
only and definitely you can't pray on it. Even if you wear it let's
say I say I'm a number brand new Muslim, listen, just give me the
bare minimum fine, you cannot pray with it. At the very least you
don't pray with it. Right and eventually a Muslim should not
even wear that stuff outside the house at all. Unless you're only
going with
to another house of women then it's fine. But or for your
immediate family. Like your immediate family, your husband,
your father, whatever your your
And you're allowed to have form fitting clothes on in front of
them.
The other attribute of clothes is that it's not transparent. If it's
transparent, then it's not covered either. So if it's your see your
body behind it, it's not. So all this comes in a little phrase,
which says layer Sif, Willa chef. Layer surf means it doesn't define
the contours of the body, while a shift means it does not. It's not
see through, it's not transparent.
Now for the man, his he should cover his shoulders, and he should
cover from the navel to the knee when he prays.
And for the woman, she has to cover everything except for her
face and her hands. All right, everything has to be covered
besides her face in her hands, someone says to you, oh, why is
not equality, it's not equally because they don't look the same.
Okay? When they tried to sell beer, they don't put a guy they
put a nice beautiful woman because that's what they know people are
going to look at, okay, so they don't look the same. So therefore
Allah Tala also has rules that are different for each gender.
The fifth and final precondition is pretty simple. And that is to
face the direction of Mecca. And for us, any easterly direction
suffices. Okay, now, when you think about where we are, let's
say New Jersey or pretty much all of North America, and where Mecca
is, clearly we are north of MCC, we get snow and Mecca doesn't.
Right How could anyone commonsensical II think that New
Jersey is more is not north of Mecca, New Jersey is clearly north
of Mecca. However, if you think about if the criterion is the
shortest distance between Mecca, and America, or even England,
let's say, then it's going to be northeast, it's not going to be
southeast. Well, actually, I shouldn't speak for England, I
don't know how they they fly out. But for us, we fly northeast. Why?
Because the Earth is oblong, right? It's not flat. So by the
equator, you would have to come out. So for a plane to go
southeast, it would have to go out because the Earth is rounded at
that at the equatorial level have to go out and around. Whereas if
you're the northern part of the world is shallow, okay? Like it's
more shallow, so you could just dip. So you would actually go
north, and then dip South is actually the shorter route. So
from the aspects of common sense, it's going to be se from the
aspect of shortest distance, it's going to be northeast. So the
summary of what the scholars have told us is that any easterly
direction for us Americans, anywhere east, now you could use
your compass on your phone, you could use the highway systems if
you want, right. So if you know that a certain Turnpike is going
this way, then that's north and that's east gate. And that's
northeast, if you're going to build a mosque, you're going to
build it northeast, if you're going to pray with Muslims, you
look northeast, why because all of us here, like 99.9% of Muslims in
America, pray northeast. So that's the Qibla that you're going to use
when you're playing praying with a group. Alright, so those are your
five preconditions, again, entrance or the prayer time
purification of your clothes, skin and place a prayer will do.
Covering your body and facing the Qibla. These are the five
preconditions of the prayer.
As we now 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 going to need
little passages, little prayers that you're going to need to
memorize. So the standing positions are, are the physical
positions are the standing, which we call PM, don't worry about the
Arabic but I'll say it anyway just so they you can hear it. pm
standing, bowing, oh, cool.
prostrating sujood and siddik Julius. Okay. So these are the
four positions and the prayer will be basically moving through these
four positions in different ways. And the four 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, per 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 Salam, 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 I'm saying Allahu
Akbar. And then immediately reciting Fattah Al hamdu Lillahi
Rabbil Alameen Rahman Al Rahim, Malik Yama deen the year can
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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 he come later, he just memorize it for
now.
And then you recite any small sutra, 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 them. 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. Okay. 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 Allah halimun 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's the one who thanks him. Okay, and we now say that Semia
Allahu Lehmann Hamidah, semi, Allahu 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
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. All right, so this is very simply
the sujood position. If you notice my toes, they're slightly bent
towards the fibula, alright, you don't 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 Jews position, okay? And then
you're going to enter into prostration again, so remember,
prostration is always in pairs. So sujood Juuso sujood. Again,
All right now in the sujood position, you're going to say
Subhan, Allah 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 Subhana 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 you're in solitude. 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
duck 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
as a unit, I'll record 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
zakiyah to dilla a Salawat to the Yerba to Lilla A salaam salam
alayka a un EBU Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh As salam o Elena, who
are either IVA de la his sila hint, a shadow Allah, Allah
illallah wa doko, la sharika who are shadow and 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 does 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 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 hear 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, in the sitting
position of the last raka of every prayer, we said that we're going
to say that to hear 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 Muhammad what have Muhammad were
Allah Muhammad, were Burdick Allah Muhammad. While early Mohammed
came also later What are him to a Baraka Allah Ibrahim wala early
Ibrahim, Phil al 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 raucous.
Okay, so the first prayer of the day, when the sun is still coming
up is only two because the second prayer is for rockets, which means
that in the second rocket, we're going to have the two here in the
fourth Raka, when we're sitting down, we're gonna 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 two here 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 two hiya here in the
second Anika
And to hear plus Salah Ibrahim here, in the third record.
The last prayer of the day is Elisha. Okay, which is when the
light is completely out, and that is for our cause. And again, to
hear in the second aka to hear plus Salah Ibrahim iya in the
fourth raka
All right, we're almost done. Another thing we need to discuss
is allowed or silent. When we say allowed, 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 motive. He
only means a the first truck has and be only the first standing
portion, which is the fatsia plus the Sunnah 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 aka
isn't allowed the to hear and the slight Ibrahimi are not allowed.
Okay, so only the standing portion, and only in the first two
raucous, so, Allahu Akbar, and the fetch Al hamdu, lillahi, Rabbil
Alameen to the end, and the short SUTA 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.
Um, one of the greatest symbols of Islam is the event. It's something
that everyone hears whenever they go to the Muslim world. And it's
associated very closely to the religion of Islam. It's also the
summary of the entire religion as it begins with praising Allah and
then uttering the testimony of faith. And it's announced
publicly, now the event and iqama are things that are specific to
the men. So it's something that only men will ever do. And the
then is done essentially to gather people. However, if you're in your
house, or if you're praying alone somewhere and you wish to call
them because you love them, then there's no harm in that there are
a couple of different ways to do that, then you may hear the then
said, and the comma said in slightly different manners, and
that's all fine based upon what the scholars took from the
companions. Now, the psychology behind it is also something
important to know. And it's that is the idea that nothing just
comes suddenly and Allah doesn't spring anything upon you rather
you have the event, it gets you in the mood for the prayer, it
reminds you it notifies you that the time is in it also helps you
manage your time you do something from this event to this event, for
example, and people used to meet each other at certain events or
not the message and then the comma is telling us that the Imam is
here and the prayer is about to begin so we get into our rows and
then the Imam says some word of reminders such as straighten your
rows fill the gaps turn to Allah with pious hearts, things like
this in any language and that's when you know that this is it so
you have ultimately end up with three phases of the prayer but
first let's take a look at the wording of the other.
The accom as well has different wording so let's take a look at
this wording.
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now as you travel the world and travel, different massages, you
might hear different variations of the outcome and all these are
valid and they're insignificant differences. For example, you may
hear because of comments a solo being said twice. You may hear the
entire
Iiar iqama being said exactly like the event, alright, everything
repeated two times. And that also has its validity. So there in our
law, we have flexibility. Someone might be saying, Oh, I wish
everything was just one way. But that's a sign of sort of rigidity
in the law. And the prophets, I sell him, he taught things
differently at different times, sort of giving us a hint that
there's flexibility. So our religion is firm, yet flexible at
the same time, and you don't want something to be so too firm that
it's rigid, and it breaks, okay? It's not adaptable. All right.
Whereas you don't want something to be so flexible, like, I'll just
call out, say, whatever you know, comes to your heart, then you have
chaos. Alright, so you need some structure. And so what we call
this is Moon, which is flexibility, we have firmness, we
have structure, but we have flexibility and the events and the
accommodation different variations is one of the many reflections of
that in the sacred law.
Let's talk about some different upon matters. And this is
something that oftentimes takes up more no space in your head, then
really necessary. For example, I'm going to list a few things that
you should never worry about in the prayer, because they're all
valid differences of opinion. The first one is that you may see many
Muslims raising their hands up before
ruku, bowing and after coming back from bowing. And this exists in
one of the schools of thought you should know that there are four
schools of Islamic law, meaning the living traditions have passed
down knowledge from the time of the prophet to the companion to
the next generation to the next generation all the way until
today. Okay, there are four living schools of thought. And they are
called the Hanafi, madaket, Chef, and humbly schools of thought, and
they have some differences amongst them. Now, why are we talking
about this, because the prayer is very visible, you're gonna go to
masajid. And you will see people praying in different ways. And in
this portion of the video wants you to know that these are not
significant differences. And these are not something that should take
up a lot of space in your mind. Amongst them is what we just said,
of raising the hands, how to raise your hand to begin, the prayer can
also differ, we're not going to go into the difference, I'm just
going to let you know that there are subtle differences, where to
place the hands in the prayer, how to move the finger when you sit
down for the Tisha hood and the to hear how to sit when you do so how
far to turn your head when you slam out of the prayer. Okay, so
these things are subtle differences that a new Muslim will
see and youth will look in the massage and and see there's so
many different ways to pray, what is this, you have to know that the
forms these are, these are the details of the form. And it's not
something that you should worry about. So that's really all I have
to say about that. It's just to give you the idea that the finger
where to hold the hands, how to hold the hands, okay?
How when to raise the hands, how to sit down, how far to turn your
neck when you give the test, leam, et cetera, et cetera, are all
things that you will see in the mosques. And you don't have to
really worry about especially at this point, when a person is just
learning how to pray.
One of the best things regarding the prayer is to pray in a group.
This is one of the secrets of Islam. It's one of the hallmarks
of Islam and the Prophet peace be upon him established this for many
reasons. First of all, if you're learning if you're new to how to
pray, the best way to learn is to watch other people pray. Right you
see how they're praying, and you're gonna go to different
mosques and different see so many different Muslims praying, you'll
see what's the uniformity and what's different upon so when you
see so many examples of prayer, it allows you to see, you know, what
is their present in everyone's prayer? And what is present in
some people's prayer in terms of movements and what's not. So you
know, there you start to separate between what's required, and
what's different upon what's agreed upon, and what is
difference of opinion. So that's one thing. Second thing is that
when you see people pray, sometimes you see their piety.
Sometimes you see someone
during the prayer or after the prayer, closing their eyes and
filled Well, close not should really close their eyes in the
prayer, but maybe after the prayer, but you see their faces
filled with piety. Okay? And maybe if they're the Imam, you hear the
recitation and how beautiful their recitation is, and how sincere
they're sounding in the recitation. We benefit from that
because we start asking ourselves, well, where's that in me? Right?
And one of the reasons the Prophet peace be upon him wanted us to
pray in a group is so that we can see the pious and say, I want to
be like that. I want to have that Who should we call that the word
is who Sure, which is all and love combined in a person when they
pray. So that's one of the benefits. Another benefit is
completely separate from the prayer which is that it's
socialization. You see people, many Muslims, okay, where do they
get their friends, but Allah told them to pray in the mosque, it's
recommended to pray. They pray in the mosque. Alright, so they start
making friends, he's you know, just pray and leave us say salaam
to the person. Now you pray repeatedly in the same local
mosque, you're not going to always just say sell them to someone and
walk away eventually one day you're gonna say, Oh, I didn't see
you yesterday, oh, what's your name? What do you do, et cetera.
So what's called Manasa or benefits happen? People make
friends, people may get worldly benefits that occur accrue over
time from the contacts that you make in the prayer. So that's
another benefit that we have now, what about who is recommended? And
what's the ruling about praying in the mosque? It's recommended,
highly recommended for Muslims to pray together anywhere. So five
Muslims need to pray it is best for them to pray together. What
about four in the mosque? Well, it's highly recommended even more
to pray in the mosque when the mosque establishes the prayer so
not just anytime. But we should look at when does that message it
pray at that time and we should pray behind them with their Imam
and with their group is highly recommended the Prophet peace be
upon him said it's 27 times greater to pray in the mosque with
the group than outside, all right by yourself. Now, some people may
be wondering, why did the Prophet say 27 times? Well think about it
right? It got in your head, right? If he said a round number you can
forget. But when you say an odd number like that 27 It's one of
those almost like a trick where it sticks in your you'll never forget
that it's 27 times greater to pray in a group in the mosque behind
the Imam than to pray by herself. Now regarding the women, the
scholars have different upon whether or not the women's prayer
can happen in a group. So the first two schools earlier schools
of thought said no, it never existed in the time of the Prophet
peace be upon him. So women do not pray together in a group they pray
by themselves. The other two schools of thought told us no,
they can pray in a group. So if that's the case, they will call a
comma. And they will put up one of the women to lead the prayer.
Secondly, the question of what about praying in the mosques. The
Prophet peace be upon him did say that the women's prayer at home is
superior to her prayer in the mosque. And that's what the four
schools rule. But it is also noted that the wives of the Prophet
peace be upon him used to pray in the mosque. And then they stopped
later on when the mosque became filled with strangers. And the way
likewise, wives of the companions used to pray in the mosque and
eventually they stopped praying in the mosque when it became when the
city of Medina became filled with people. So there is some
discussion on it and the overall estate a statement is that it is
better for women to stay home and pray in their house. However,
scholars have also said that nowadays the mosque entails many
other things. It tells a place for her to meet other Muslims. And
that's very important because you need companionship, the mosque is
the place for the classes. So for going for those purposes, then
yes, then going to the masjid has so many benefits, we don't even
need to list the benefits. There's so many benefits of learning, for
making friends and it's sort of common sensical for her that she
has to benefit for. She has to go to the mosque to attain to those
benefits.
How about recommended prayers you see, when you go to the mosque,
you'll see people praying, and you will see them after the prayer,
either getting up to leave or sitting set moving their mouths
and moving their fingers, what are they doing? And then sometimes
praying again, you might go to a mosque and find people scattered
around praying so you wonder what's going on? Did they or is
this the prayer? So we need to explain a little bit of that,
after a person prays, they are recommended to do something called
tests via to speak meaning different praises of Allah
subhanaw taala and amongst these is to say a stuck for Allah three
times a stuck for Allah stuff, all that stuff for Allah, and then to
Say Subhan Allah 33 times Alhamdulillah 33 times Allahu
Akbar 33 times and then to say, finish off the 100 with La ilaha
illallah wa the hola Shetty Killa low molecular Hamed, Mo Allah
Konishi and Kadir okay there is none worthy of worship but Allah
one note without any partner
level molk the kingdom is his. What I will attempt all praise is
to him Well hello coalition multilevel hamdulillah coalition
Kadir and he is powerful over all things. And there's a great
spirituality in this Subhan Allah is Praise be to Allah, he's free
from all defects. It directs our attention to Allah Alhamdulillah
directs our attention to what he gave us, right? It means we thank
Allah we praise Him for everything he gave us. So our attention now
is to all our blessings. And when a person does this regularly
Subhan Allah takes
is our mind and our heart away from other people's blessings. So
we don't look at what other people have removes that envy from the
heart. And hamdulillah directs us to what Allah already gave us. It
fills us with gratitude and a feeling that we have a lot. And
Allah Allahu Akbar, Allah is greater than everything we fear.
So this test fear, when done regularly is a vitamin against so
many factors that bring depression to people. Thinking about people,
is a terrible thing. So Subhan Allah makes you think about Allah
and hamdulillah lacking greatness, gratitude, gratefulness, and not
realizing the amount of blessings that you have. Right is a
spiritual defect in so many people, that leads them to misery.
That hamdulillah remove that makes you think of what you have. Now we
also have fears and Allahu Akbar, Allah is greater. Notice it
doesn't say Allah is Greatest, Allah is greater, which means that
it's relative greater than what whatever you're thinking about.
Whatever you're worried about, Allah is greater than that. These
are our antidepressant pills, right? We take these and of course
if you have a clinical situation you make sure you see your doctor
and you take your spiritual medicine too. And this is our
spiritual medicine, which is the test via Now what about the
prayers? I'm going to read off very quickly for you. What are the
Sunnah prayers, Neville prayers, which which we don't need to get
into the difference the subtle difference between sunnah and
nephila right now, but the extra prayers that you may be seen
Muslims do doing and that is recommended for you to do if you
can, the first is to buy cars before fetch
for before the hook for after the hook
for before OS six after market
and then chef and winter which is two rockers and then one before
you sleep so most of them can do whatever they can of these the
most important ones though, are the two before fetch and the shefa
and winter
Okay, which is the two and one before you sleep and the most
common of these that most Muslims pray and don't leave off is the
two after McRib. And again, there will be some differences of
opinion within the four schools as to these numbers but this is the
general number that you can know right now and it will suffice you
to know right now. Thanks for watching you can get more courses
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