Shadee Elmasry – Purification and Prayer Class #3 1of2
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As most of you heard my name is Alex Lajos. I
been staying with Sheikh Shadi for a while and I'm going to be
filling in every once in a while, tonight is going to be my first
time. So it's kind of like when you go to, to a play on Broadway
and the real actor is not there and you get to stand. So that's
me, so but inshallah it'll be a good show anyway.
While we're waiting for the books, we're just gonna do a quick
review. So so far, we've covered the first five chapters, I
believe, right?
Up through the prayer times. For those who don't have the books,
I'll just outline it quickly.
We started out with the first chapter, which we're going to look
at a little bit again.
And it's really just a brief summation of why the prayer is so
important, why it's the central feature of our religion, the real
importance of it. Sorry, sure.
Yeah, the thing is,
so while we're waiting from the books, the first thing we're going
to do, once we get the books is we're just gonna look a little bit
at Chapter One again, and discuss some of the points that Shadi made
about it. Regarding the importance of the prayer, and its centrality,
why it's the most critical element of the deen as a sub chapter, the
subheading of the chapter says,
well, we also covered
is called the prayers of obligatory upon, and when, and
that's very brief, it's
it's children, once they reach the age of seven, they should be
encouraged to pray. And once the age, they reach the age of 10, you
should kind of really enforce the prayer on them, even though it's
not obligatory on them yet, you should really enforce it so that
it becomes habitual, it's something that they're habituated
to they're used to. And when they do become mature, which is the age
of puberty, they'll already be accustomed to it, and it won't be
like a big transition for them.
And so when it actually does become obligatory is at the age of
puberty, whenever the person hits puberty, there is no set age,
obviously, for boys, it's when they have their first nocturnal
emission, or when they start to have grow hair other than, you
know, the normal hair on their face in their head. And for girls,
it's when they have their first menstrual period.
So that's when the privilege comes obligatory. There's the conditions
of the prayer. So just going over that, again, it's the time of the
prayer should be in. So each prayer has it set time and Shadi
also made a good chart for us showing the different prototypes.
He's going to distribute that. So he's making copies now. So, again,
the four preconditions are the prayer or the time that the time
for the prayers in each prayer has its own time.
And we're going to do a little bit more with that. Right before we
get into today's chapter. Also purification of yourself and your
clothes, your body and your clothes have to be free of the
things that make them impure. Just briefly, that includes you know,
whatever exits through the front or the back, blood, vomit. Any of
those things on your clothes or on your body needs to be washed off
before you can pray. Also the play
just needs to be pure, also free of all of those things. And you
need to have the direction of the prayer established. So from where
we are, it's northeast. So you need to make the best effort to
establish that direction, figure out where it is, and pray. So
those are the four conditions that need to be met before you can
pray.
In terms of the times of the prayer, and everybody has a book
now, right? Okay, we're on page 14 for the prayer times.
I noticed that some Muslims will pray ease, even in our region,
sure,
is northeast. So two things about that, first, there's, there's a
difference of opinion on it. And it has to do not with religious
texts, or a different Hadith or a different ayah in the Quran, but
it's actually due to people's understanding of how the geography
works. So some people will say, Well, if you look at a globe,
yeah, it's Northeast is the shortest way to go. But if you're
looking at an A flat map, some people will say, No, it should
actually be kind of south, east southeast. So it's actually like a
technical geographical difference. And it has nothing to do with
religious matters. Everybody's still prays to Mecca. And it's
just
kind of a mathematical difference on how to how to reach that. But
the standard opinion is ne, there's a lot of work that's been
done on it. But the other important thing to know is that
you have some leeway in attending the proper direction. So if, in
this ministry, we're praying this way, right, so that's the qibla,
that's northeast
45 degrees in either direction, you're still within it. So even if
you were off, which you would be so if you're, if it's North East,
and you're praying east, you're still within that. So there's no
need to repeat the prayer. Even if done intentionally, at least in
the opinion of Imam Malik. Even if you intentionally pray in the
wrong direction, maybe because you're in a constrained hallway or
something. You're still okay.
So if you see somebody praying that way, that's not worth getting
into discussion with him about it, usually.
Okay, so on page 14,
see how much there is here. It's just quick pages.
Who would like to do the reading?
Somebody with a strong voice?
I think we read actually, we didn't we did. We have some new
people. And we wanted to just go over it quickly. And then we're
going to chapter five, we're not gonna go that. Oh, yeah. This is
chapter five. All right, actually, you know what I'll do, I'll just
go through the points. So there's five daily prayers.
That's easier, good. I don't have to yell anymore. Okay, so there
are five daily prayers. The first one is called Fetch. And it starts
at the beginning of dawn. And it goes until sunrise. And again, she
had these printing on a chart, which is going to help detail all
of this and give us a nice visual for it.
The next period, even though it's listed here, it's not one of the
obligatory prayers. It's Doha. It's one of the
more stressed Sunnah prayers. So
there's a description of it that from from the Prophet sallallahu,
alayhi, wasallam. They said that the Doha prayer is the prayer of
the sincere people, right, and of those who are really seeking the
benefit. So that's anytime after sunrise and before the first noon
prayer that prayers of Burma is prayed from in the charter is
really going to be helpful for this from basically what's true
noon, when the sun is at zenith, or slightly past it. Until late
afternoon, that next prayer is asked, and that's prayed from late
late afternoon until sunset, although
each prayer has its own time. And the time is kind of expensive,
right? So you have between almost each prayer to pray, sort of us is
really emphasized to be prayed at the beginning, it should never be
delayed. It's preferable not to delay it at all. Unlike the other
prayers in which you really have an option to pray either at the
beginning or the end. The next prayer is Margaret, this is a
sunset prayer. There is no option there that has to be prayed as
soon as possible. So as soon as the sunset, you call the A then
the comment is called and you pray. And there's no difference of
opinion on that. And then a share is prayed
from the right after the evening time until about the middle of the
night. You have to pray that although if it's delayed even
until Fudger, it's acceptable, but not profitable. So that's just
briefly on the prayer times. And so now we're up to chapter six,
which is the event and the comma. And now we do need a reader. So
any volunteers? Anyone?
Perfect. Oh, here we go. So I'll pass you the mic.
forwarded on to yours for that which is heard. It is public
speaking as a public call to prayer is an obligation upon which
communities are such that nobody does it. Blame falls on the entire
community. But as soon as one person does it, the duty is lifted
from them. Its color is called weapon. The weapon has a great
reward or the day of judgment. The Prophet SAW Allah say when the sun
set the colors to prayer will come with a beautiful lawn next on the
piano. This person also receives the honor of his saying, Who is
better in speech than one call so long? Does good in says I am one
of the Muslims. Okay, so two points, the the type of thought
that it is it's fortify Right. So there's two types of fart.
fortifier is an obligation that is communal, as it states here,
meaning as it's explained, if any one person in the community
establishes it, then it's fulfilled and it counts for
everyone in the community that includes like building a mosque is
a fork of fire.
Going on jihad, if if you're a Muslim nation is being attacked,
it's fortifiers, a group of the Muslims or at least one of them
has to engage in it. And it suffices for then there are other
the other type of art is 49. The translation transliteration of
that would be a y n, for the aim is something that's obligatory on
each and every individual. So the fact that the community is doing
it or that some members of the community are doing it is not
sufficient to excuse you from doing it. It doesn't cover you.
It's what every muscle has to do. So like prayer, and fasting all of
these are personal individual obligations. So the the coin VNN
is a fork of fire as long as somebody in the community has
established it, then it suffices to believable reverse all of that
duty.
There are some other Hadith regarding the reward of the person
who caused the event demising in the Muslim of Imam Akhmed, it's
even related that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said,
if people knew the reward of calling the event, then they would
have used swords among them, meaning they would have fought
each other even with swords to be the one who caused the prayer.
It's a bit of hyperbole obviously but just to emphasize the
importance of the of calling the event and how much the reward is
for I'm sorry, go ahead.
Yeah, two names associated with the Adan that sorry at the loan.
The in the making Abu Matera who became Muslim after the conquest.
When the Muslims were considering how to gather the people for
prayer and various suggestions were made, including banging
sticks and blowing a horn. The answer was given to up the love
and the imagery, in which an angel taught him the Adan because
consisting of four talk theories and no touchy to explain shortly
after the conquest of Mecca, Madera was one of those who hated
as long as submitted out of fear. The Prophet peace be upon him, saw
him laughing at them, why, then the Prophet peace be upon him. So
he called him over Apple, go ahead, I said, When the Prophet
May peace be upon him, called me over to him, there was no man on
the face of the earth, I hated more than him. He placed his hand
on my heart, and I felt a coolness, my hatred was gone. Then
he gave me a sack of coins, and at that point, nobody on the face of
the earth was more beloved to me than him. I asked him to appoint
me as some weapons in Mecca. And he did teaching me the Adan and
the economy. Okay, so a couple of points here. So at the time when
the Muslims were in Medina already,
they had, they had a big enough group of people, they were the
whole city, where the practice that they used to have in Mecca
where they would just somebody would just say,
a Salah, write the prayer, and people would know that it was time
to praying calm, that wasn't sufficient. They needed something
to really like gather the people from throughout the city. And so
that's when the prophets of Allah they were seldom asked for the
suggestions. This is something that he did throughout his
prophethood sallallahu alayhi wa sallam sometimes when when nothing
was revealed from Allah directly about it, he would consult the
Sahaba his companions and ask them what their opinion was. And if
somebody offered something that was that was good, he would take
it. So concept is gives us the basis for consultation even by
someone who has absolute authority over us.
So what he did is he asked and
Abdullah ibn Zayd said that he had a dream in which a man dressed in
green came and taught him the words of the event. And so then he
came to the Prophet the next day. So Allah holiday was telling him
and told him this. And the Prophet said, that's good, and it's
acceptable, and that's what we'll use. And then the companion Omar
rhodiola, Han, came to the Prophet and said I had the same dream that
name with those same words. So there was clear that this was
guidance from Allah and that this is the way that Allah wanted the
call to prayer to be. So this is where this was established.
Regarding the situation with Abu Mathura,
there were people after the the muscles became strong and mega
which recovered in the, in the pseudo class
that even though they weren't being forced, and nobody was
forced to convert, they still felt some kind of fear and felt like
maybe they should just join along just to go along, so that they
wouldn't be ostracized, or fearing that maybe some retribution would
come later on. And he was one of those people. And the Prophet knew
this sallallahu alayhi wa salam. And so he went to him, and he
engaged him this way, changed his heart.
And on top of that, when the man asked for a great honor, as we've
established that calling the event is a big honor.
The Prophet gave it to him, just as a way of showing that he was
willing to reconcile even with people who were strongly opposed
to religion before that,
prior to this in Mecca prior to Abu Mathura, becoming the modern,
beloved, the companion Bilbao, who was Abyssinian and had been with
the Prophet since the very beginning. So all our holiday was
on them. He was the one who was appointed to call the event in
Medina,
mainly because of his righteousness. And also because he
had a really strong and beautiful voice, so that he could be heard
throughout the city. And the event sounded beautiful, which is why
when you hear that and being called now, there's melodious ness
to it. This is because of the son of Buddha, who, who had that kind
of voice and recited the event in that way. Score
consistent only to talk beers,
and talk is a touchy subject
to say the shahada twice as normal, then repeat them and allow
them so there's a chart on the next page where we'll see it and
we don't have to read through it. But so the original the original
way the event was called is the way that we hear it now. This is
the medina then, which is Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar,
Allahu Akbar, Allah Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah. Allah, Allah, Allah,
Allah, Allah, Allah and Muhammad Rasool Allah shallow and Mohammad
Rasool Allah, etc. Right? So it's twice each one, four times Allahu
Akbar, then twice each phrase, the event in Mecca was Allahu Akbar,
Allahu Akbar just twice, then a shadow Allah Allahu Allah, a
shadow in La ilaha illallah eyeshadow. Muhammad arose rasool
Allah shadow ana Muhammadan rasul Allah, and then in a louder voice
repeat both of them twice. So this was a difference in the way that
they then was recited in Mecca.
Send the chart is here, it's helpful so you can review it on
your own time, just so when you hear that you know exactly how the
words are being sent. And what's being said.
As to get done is being called repeat everything the caller says,
However, after how Yeah, unless Allah higher and higher. Hola.
Hola. C'est la hawla wala Quwata illa biLlah. There's no power
restraint except with a
completely suffocating. So before we get into the diet that said
after that, so when you're hearing there then called whether it's in
your home or whether you're at the masjid. So every time the modern
says Allahu Akbar, you repeat in a low voice to yourself, Allahu
akbar, Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar. For each phrase, you repeat the
phrase exactly, except for those phrases in the center. Hi, Ellis
Salah and highlight further. You just say La hawla wala Quwata illa
biLlah which is there's no power or strength except with Allah. And
this is the sunnah to do that when the event is being called.
Can you read?
Sure.
Do we have any volunteers want to
actually let's let's get let's get the brothers
you have a book right next to you
your next reader move up
thanks.
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