Shadee Elmasry – Purification and Prayer Class #8 1of2
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you.
So just to confirm we left off, we finished chapter 22 Last week, and
we're yet to start 23 Right
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not to take this matter. However,
in other positions, in certain circumstances, the second disabled
may increase and however, they should try to do whatever they can
on the prayer for example, if they can stand but cannot bend their
knees, then they should bow instead only
if they cannot put weight on their foot, but can you make up and make
some noises they should sit for about an hour.
So sorry, so So can and so you can meaning standing. And Rocco,
obviously is the is the bound. So the explanation there is, you
know, sometimes people can't get all the way down to the ground,
which is the previous statement. So then they should stand and in
micropore, but then for the security instead of frustrating
the consent. And in this case is the opposite. You can't put weight
on your foot, you sprained your ankle or for whatever reason.
So you can sit during the times when you would normally be
standing. But then Institute if you can do it, you should do it.
Then in Greenland, bending their neck, slightly standing, battling
over all our gray areas.
And it's like learning to try to tolerate a small amount, because
you weren't
when the pain begins to disrupt one's ability to concentrate
on the
station, and sit down. Okay, so so so again, just to re emphasize the
standing of the prayer is an integral part of the prayer it's
necessary. It's one of the components that you can't do
without you can't obviate that unless it's absolutely necessary.
Even if there's just a slight discomfort or pain, you should
still make your effort to make every movement as it's supposed to
be. If of course the pain is too much or it's enough that it
distracts you from your from your prayer and what you're supposed to
be focusing on Allah subhanaw taala data then obviously you can
take the disposition but not just just because
there's simply no place in the price such as airplanes or cars
while traveling. They want to increase it sitting no one has to
pray before them for mounting the vehicle than what you crave
sitting so they do not miss the tie. But they are blameworthy and
should make up a prayer
so just just to clarify that because the wording on that so
again, if you could have done yeah, if you didn't still you pray
sitting so you can pray sitting if you're on a bus or a plane and you
there was no time before that to pray. If you could have done it,
then you're wrong for having not done it but then you should still
pray sitting in that Mr. Time, obviously.
I'm sorry, you had a question? I did. So what happens if you're,
you won't miss the prayer and this has happened to me I'm in I'm in
traffic I'm driving. Is it better to pause or and make that prayer
in my car? Or should I just wait until I get home in
Okay, so by the time in your question is you're on the road,
the time for the prayer comes in and we will make it home before
the time goes out.
I mean, unless you know citizen action or Detroit, whatever, but
normally you would make a home, it's better to make it home. It's
better to go home and do it. The only prayer in which it's really
strongly recommended, such as you should always do it to pray as
soon as it comes in is not a model. Mulgrew should always be
prayed as early as possible, not to the point where if your options
are praying, sitting down, or praying a little later, but still
within the time, the right way, you should still do it the right
way, even if it delays it, because the standing of the prayer is more
important than the praying it in its earliest time, although
they're both the one is necessary, right? It's why did you have to do
it, whereas the other one is just really strongly recommended.
So yeah, as long as you if you think you're going to make it home
on time, then you should
the same,
same, same as the case for traffic. At the point they cannot
even
if they knew they would hit traffic, then they are
blameworthy. But if they had to learn if they had no
foreknowledge, and then they are not like they can pray sitting in
the corner, if they are outcome building can still do their best
to focus on the stuff on the traffic as hard to know, if they
could switch with a passenger letter as for the passenger, they
should turn their chest as you turn their chest to face the
gray load of orange should consist of a downward movement of the head
while this
would be
so
just a couple of points on that. So obviously, she shed he's a good
multitasker because he's talking about praying while driving.
Mashallah.
But the truth is, if you're if you're just completely stopped in
traffic, and it's not moving anywhere, so you shouldn't be able
to do it.
Obviously, the recommendation for switching with passion is if
possible, the part that I wanted to clarify is turning the chest is
usually the terminology that you see when discussing how to face
the cantilever. But it's not just your face. And I think we
mentioned this in another class, but it's that this portion of your
torso should be pointed in the right direction, you and if your
head turns in other way, for some reason, the focus is the whole
upper body, who is if if your chest is pointed in that
direction, the rest of your body is going to follow and even your
face normally would be facing in that direction as well.
And I think the description of the moment is pretty self explanatory.
But case it isn't so record you about a little bit and to indicate
to Judy we'll go down even further.
As for the traveler on the road, in rainy conditions, he or she
would fall over and pray that you are facing the midnight if there
is no mosque if there's no mosque or other building in which to pray
if there is
one and obligated to drive to it
even when the weather was dry and it was possible to ground the
ground situations have been your most well known for praying and
other than normal. And then other than normal way during the siege
of Medina Muslims were in a position where this position was
on either
Okay, so thank you. So a couple of points on this. So the the
statement as for travel around the road and rainy conditions, then he
or she would pull over and bring the car but if the ground is wet,
you're not expected to get out and pray and in the rain or on the in
the mud or anything like that. Not that you can't but it's probable
that you don't the one of the conditions for the cleanliness or
for the place of prayer is that it'd be dry and clean as much as
possible.
Although it states here that if you're able to find a mosque or
even another building which to pray then it's obligatory to do
that.
The prophets of Allah highly when he was happy with some of them
used to pray his son was on his camera even when there was no
other need. So if they were traveling, that doesn't mean that
if the camera was just sitting somewhere and he was sitting on
the camera, he would do so well rather on a journey when he was
traveling and he he was trying to get somewhere in an expeditious
fashion. They wouldn't stop the camera to get off the previous
owners he would play this on his while he was writing
but that's only for this one that's and it's only if there was
a purpose in the in the journey not just because he was there.
And situations of danger.
The situation is dangerous to have been explained by the automat in
different ways. Obviously if you're in a time of war, you're
being attacked. And that's clearly a dangerous situation in the the
circumstances of the revolution of this idea. Were when the muscles
were being attacked in Medina. So you're being attacked in a
situation of war. Obviously, there's some danger there. There
might be some danger also
It even at a time of peace just because of where you are,
that could occur that you're, you're in a city, you're in a
place where you'd know that it's going to be dangerous for you to
get out and pray. And those cases, you should make your use your best
judgment. If it's a legitimate fear, and if you're really believe
that something might some harm might come to you, then you
should, you'll be able to take that disposition, obviously, you
will be the only one who can really judge that.
Sure.
No, you're going to get traffic and you know, the time is going to
come in. And if you don't leave, you're going to lose your meeting.
Right. So that's, so the question is, in the statement in the next
to last paragraph on page 47, is the same as the case for one
jammed in traffic? And it says how if they knew that they would hit
traffic than they were blameworthy? Well, if you know
that you're going to hit traffic but you have to leave anyway, then
you had to leave
you shouldn't get fired from your job or a miss a job interview or
failure class.
Because of this circumstance, you should do everything that you can
to avoid being stuck in a situation like that but if it's
not if it's unavoidable even if you know that it's gonna happen
but it's unavoidable then it's unavoidable.
Right so, page 49 Anybody want to take reading
money from the guy said you guys are so shy.
Do you want to like
allowance is the one playing behind the money towards
something that only one who takes another as an example is also used
to refer to this. As for the mom, or prayer leader, simply means
meter. It is a very lofty position and must be taken very seriously
as the Imams for his song and accepted in his hope that the
congregation Salah will also be accepted. The Imam must be a male
as a female can never pray in front of magnitude to the
explosion over Heroku Roku and the sujood or cause however, is the
gathering is all female then a female may need the mama must be
barley mature and Naki of sound intellect while young children may
not need the prayer routine calls are done in a coma only if it is a
private setting and the mom has made clear to the people get
validated
beforehand beforehand
otherwise the people will be it is nearly a child playing
responsible. So
so here the shed is giving us the the just the basic core conditions
for who can lead the prayer. The first is that the Imam is male if
it's a mix gathering or if it's a gathering of men.
Women can be Imams for a group of women praying together as long as
there aren't any males present. The men must be valid right mature
that means above the age of puberty and awkward meaning he's
of sound intellect he's not insane or anything of that sort.
And that children cannot lead this
period. They can if they call the liaison or they'll comment. Again,
it says you're only in a private setting. So not in the message if
and only if any man has about has explained to the people beforehand
that it's okay.
Mom should be the one with the most Quran memorized, if true or
equal or similar in your memorization, then the one who is
stronger and review site on the spot takes preceded for example,
there are many people who have memorized or do not easy and the
chance was in the past, not the president is both are equal and in
this respect and the one with three takes with these
two both have that and then the one with greater understanding
takes receive acknowledged as equal than the older and the more
senior takes could be if it has to
do is equal than the one that's more honest worse than as nice.
For example, the one with the fuller beard or Morrison knuckles.
loose fitting fans were wolves in
the first event over jeans and T shirts. That fall this is still
even than the one whose
lineage traces back to the people of Alcoa fakes, we see it in four
Example one who descends from the Prophet Muhammad
is unknown. It's still all of this even then the one who's closer.
Okay, so that's a long list. And maybe they will, I'll write out,
I'll write it out as an actual list, like, you know, bullet
points. But basically, these are, these are the conditions, right?
So who becomes the man, sometimes people
people do when there's an older person around, they'll give them
that are getting this a lot. Sometimes people insist on
whoever's home, they're at that that person leave us a lot,
there's an actual order of preference. And this is not
obligatory. But if there is a question as to who's going to lead
this a lot, then it returns to these to these disorder
presidents.
And obviously, it goes based on knowledge of the Quran, first of
all, because you're going to be leading the prayer.
And then, after that, all the outward signs of a person who is
religious all going all the way into their lineage.
Ensure that all the time kids
are placed
farther than moms ensure that the lines are straight with no gaps,
who may use others to help them check the backlog. It is also said
enough for him to advise the people and essential words before
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this can be said in anyone.
One of the really important points here is that first sentence that
the Imam is responsible for ensuring all the preconditions of
the prayer that the time is in that the Qibla has been
established correctly, that the place where everyone is praying,
not just in front of him fulfills the requirements of of
cleanliness, and even the status of the people praying behind him.
It's also the responsibility of the Amen. As as the chapter says,
In the beginning of the Imam means leader, that's what the literal
meaning of the word means linguistically, in this case, the
prayer leader, and so the entire responsibility falls on him. And
if anything is of this short, it's also on his shoulders. So being
the EVM is a serious position and something that whoever leads the
prayer, even if it's just for their family should take
everything seriously and make sure that all of these conditions are
fulfilled, and understand that it's on him. And people's feet
have to be touching.
That's a good question. So the question is, do people's feet have
to be touching, or just the shoulders.
So you'll find people who insist that the feet have to be touching,
and in fact, like really pressed up against each other.
There's, from my understanding, that's not necessarily from the
sudden, the idea of no gaps is literally so that I can
demonstrate it with these books, so that there's not an actual
large space between the people praying, right, so at the Rosa
unified. So if the shoulders are close by touching, that shouldn't
be sufficient, there's no reason to have to close the gaps between
your feet as well. And in fact, in some, in some, like in the, in the
mouth of Abu Hanifa, or the Wuhan, the preferred position of the feet
in the prayer for the person praying is about the distance of
one hand span. So the feet are actually close together. So it
would be literally impossible for those people to touch feet, with
the shoulders can still be touching.
If somebody's next to you, and they insist on stretching their
foot over to touch yours, don't make a big deal about it. Because
they know some people really take that as their understanding is
that that's obligatory, and so they're gonna feel like a prisoner
complete if they're not doing that. So I never make a big deal
about it. But no, you don't have to go through that exerted effort,
or extra effort to try to touch the foot of the person next to you
while you're praying. Your prayers still be valid 100%.
What about touching the shoulder? Because since I'm standing in a
line, or I'm not touching the actual shoulder, is it really a
physical gap? Yeah, the shoulders should be touching. Again, you
don't have to be pressed up against each other so much that
the role is tightened up. And people are, you know, like this,
which happens sometimes, especially if there's a lot of
people in a small space, then you can't be avoided. But you don't
have to force that. But there should be at least some contact
using the shoulders that way you you establish that the gap is
completely filled. It also helps to line you up. Because if there's
any kind of distance between the people playing the roles could go
on. And you can't you can't judge by the by looking at your feet
compared to the feet of the person next to you, because they might
have bigger feet than you.
So you don't know if you're really lined up based on that you have to
go based on on the fact that your shoulders are all lined up
The Imam is also responsible for establishing the sutra, which is
something that we create the prayer.
In the common case, this is
a man open space and object, the length of a fall from fingertips
to the elbow must be placed in front of the Imam, or the person
praying by himself. For example, one times along,
stood struck his spear and into the ground as the sutra for the
prophets.
That's what the row behind the mountain people are suitors for
each other, one passing by must never pass someone playing ball.
So
if he knew the gravity of this offense, he would wait 40 years
does he must go around. And there is no suitor that the pastor may
place one in itself and navigate around. Okay? So
the sutra is one of the necessary things that a person has to
establish. And it's the responsibility of the man in the
case of a group prayer, a congregational prayer.
The sutra goes at the begin at the very beginning in front of the
imam in the case of a group prayer or in front of the individual in
the case of an individual praying by themselves.
Something
about the height of that that tripod is sufficient. Just
something that you place in front of you a chair, is probably one of
the most common things that we see people use nowadays. Or if you
have someone praying in front of you, they're sufficient as your
sutra.
The sutra is just to keep people from walking directly in front of
you while you're praying. And that's maybe distracting you while
you're in your prayer, and the Hadith from the Prophet Sall
Allahu alayhi wa sallam is, if you knew the gravity of this offense,
meaning the one that passes right in front of the person that's
praying, he would have went, he would wait 40 years, meaning, you
know, if he knew how serious that was, he would never He would never
do it. So you go around the sword, if you see somebody praying, you
go around the sutra, whatever they've established, whatever they
set up, you just go to the other side, but you don't cut in
between. And if they haven't set one up, you can set one up
yourself, and do it. So in short, don't walk in front of people who
are praying. And if you're going to pray, set up a sutra for
yourself, because it's also, you know, you're doing, you're doing a
service to your brothers and sisters, by not making them stand
there and wait for you to finish praying for 20 minutes, because
that's not that's not good either. You know, you do have that
responsibility to set that up for yourself so that you don't cause
that situation, which you see a lot of times, like, especially
after Jomar, right, people will be praying their sons.
And they'll be doing it like right in the middle of where everybody
needs to walk by to get out. They shouldn't, they should line up to
one side or line up behind all the people who are praying or set
something up so that people can get around.
So if you put like a chair in front of where your brain, like,
let's say, like, it's like a college or something like that,
and people need to go through there, so that they can walk
through there if you put something so so.
So you're praying in an area where people are passing by, right, and
you set up a chair, so that people can go to the other side of the
chair and not have to come between you and the chair? Then that's
fine. Yeah.
Although if it's if you're,
if you're on some kind of public,
sidewalk or walkway, or hallway, or a place where people generally
have to pass by, you should try to make yourself at least put
yourself as far off to one side or towards the back or whatever the
situation is so that you're not, you know, right in the middle of
it.
Just out of courtesy.
Just having something in front of you will finally
let's say she was crying.
I was
like falling off in front of
your servers, the chair
doesn't like there's no offense. No, no, no, no, no. So the
question
is, if you if you see someone praying, and then they have their
sutra, like a chair, and you walk on the other side of the chair now
between the person praying in the chair, is there no problem? And
the answer is yes, no problem. It's perfectly fine.
You could even go sit on the chair if you want.
But you shouldn't
like sitting when you claim to have something like because like
if I'm on campus, like I'll go like to the corner or whatever,
and I'm sitting down, but I still need to have something in front of
me. Well, the statement over here when they were saying is normally
to walk. So if you're praying whether in your house or here at
the masjid, the sofa is the wall that's in front of you, and
usually people are not going to try to squeeze in between the
person putting in the wall. So if you have something like that,
that's always preferable. If you don't have that, then try to set
something up and if you don't have anything, but you also know that
nobody is going to walk by then you're fine. You know if it's if
you're on campus, and it's it's a it's a common area, but you know,
it's like it's a classroom where there's no class scheduled and
nobody's going to come in and you don't have
have any way of sending something I'm just praying, it's fine.
You're in the middle of the
the just the role, the role of the people praying
in the middle of the prayer, that's fine. What do you do, I
just walk walk behind you. Like, if you're behind me, that's fine.
You just turn and walk down that row.
Like, sideways, or just straight back. If walking straight back,
you're gonna have to, like get in between people. So no, you
actually you just leave your roll, like step back, turn and walk
straight down the road, it's fine. Sometimes you'll also see like,
in, in the congregational period, like kids are running up and down
the rows, right? It's fine. It's not a big deal.
Although people should watch their kids, but if they it doesn't, it
doesn't. It doesn't affect your prayer.
At least
if you're praying or somebody's walking, you shouldn't laugh. So
that's actually also Hadith sahih Hadith that if, if you are praying
and you have no sutra or you have one, and someone still tries to
walk right in front of you, they should just extend your hand out
so that they don't do it. So that they'll gara
just to get Give them the signal. And the Hadith actually, wasn't
difficult. The hadith goes, goes further in saying that if they
insist that you should insist, and at that point your prayers, you
know, you're done but
you're talking about praying while you're in Medina, or, or in
Makaha? Well, those types of situations, you're also the men
and the women are praying right next to each other. It's, it's
that situation is so unique, because of the amount of people
that are there because of the fact that you're in the harm that these
rules kind of like go out the window. They're not this is this
is for the general for the general everyday prayer. I'm like, also,
you know, you wouldn't be praying men and women next to each other
on top of each other almost, you know, yesterday I was in the
mosque and the baby was
my mind I just made her
do that.
So that was the first time
that's yeah, it's the first time I've heard it to
somebody over here.
Okay.
Mom is responsible for ensuring that the entire congregation can
hear his
mom does he may assign a
one who will repeat after him when he says Allahu Akbar, when they
mom says Samia alone.
He would say
okay, so sometimes, you know, we have microphones now in most
masajid. So this is not really an issue, but sometimes you'll see it
even even in large methods, you know where the prayer is spilling
out into the street, or in for like a prayer or something.
If there's an if there's a chance that the Imam might not be heard
by the people all the way in the back, then someone should be
assigned maybe halfway down who can still hear the Imam and who
will repeat. And so the method of it is
when the Imam says Allahu Akbar to start to prayer, or Allahu Akbar
to go into record, the person repeats it.
And the only time to hate the Mirage yet doesn't repeat it
exactly is when you rise from Rocco And the man says, something
Allahu Lehmann Hamidah the Mirage will say Roberto will have any say
loud enough so that the people in the backward can hear
it he is, if he is one band, he stands to the right of a mom. Once
a small step behind him, you're gay mom is a male and Mama is only
one female. They do not pray together except if they are
married or moderate. If they can pray together, then she stands
behind him. There is a big data group and the man lineup followed
by the children followed by a woman. Then most severe men rose
to the partial ascending since it applied, he took effort to arrive
on time. As for the woman, woman's are all the beginning the back
such that as soon as a woman enters the masjid, she says and
does not have to walk up the woman's room and start from the
back. It also protects her from being seen in a compromising
position. Okay, so
this might be something that a lot of people aren't familiar with,
but obviously the everybody knows the headaches of you know, try to
make it to the front row and make the effort to get there. And that
applies to men. For women the traditional way that a massage
It was set up is that a woman would enter into like in this
space, you would line up back near the wall if you're a woman. And
then the next row that comes in later who hasn't arrived on time
would line up in front of you. And there's a Hadith from the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam where it says that the best role for the
man is the first. And the best rule for the women in the masjid
is the one furthest back. And that's because of modesty. And,
you know, trying to create a separation as much as possible
during the prayer to avoid distractions.
It's been tight and the men can stand on the right and the left
side of the mom. So, so long as he is one step ahead of them, making
clear to the other who to call. If the space is too tight on money,
then they make then they may make recruit by Brown their hat and
make voodoo. placing their palms and forehead on the back backs of
those in front of them doing Hodge the rows of the prayer lines are
suspended. And if a woman finds herself playing next to a man, it
is valid. Okay, so the line right behind this one about hedge is
that if if you're praying in a group, and the space is really
tight, which happens sometimes in small spaces, especially for like
subtle drama, or for aid, and it's really, really tight, then the you
make you make it awkward just by bowing your head. And this dude is
actually on the back of the person that's praying in front of you.
And it's funny, because someone just told me that every every
Friday when they go, they pray in Manhattan
on their lunch break, and he said that every time they go to this
semester that they go to the, the man reminds everybody of this
because the space is so tight that everybody's always praying on top
of each other
must never move before the mom if he or she does not leave and then
they must return to their position and wait until the mom moves. They
should not stay in that position and wait for their mom is applied.
When we went to one slightly bent, bend here back to the issue,
straight it up again and lay down to the mambo. Okay, that's a
really important point sometimes, and you'll see it sometimes in a
lot.
People sometimes jump ahead of the Amen in terms of movement. So they
know that this the surah is ending because they know they know the
surah and they know the end of it. And they'll start going into Roku
before the Imam says Allah Akbar. If they started doing that, and
the minister hasn't gone, you should already back audition and
just going to record wait for the men to catch up to them. I mean,
that's the whole point of following someone right, is that
you're following them in every movement, not that you're jumping
ahead of them or being right on time for them. In fact, the in the
Melaka meth lab,
the default position is that you wait until the man has completely
moved before you make the movement. So say your institute is
the second studio and the man is going to stand up for another
record. The Imam is supposed to stand up and say Allahu Akbar once
he's fully standing. And the people following should not move
until they hear Allahu Akbar, so that there's no, there's no,
there's no chance of this movement of them jumping ahead of that
movement.
In any event, if, if you happen to do it by mistake, then you just
come right back to your position, you don't stay there waiting.
First, you're allowed and then the second two are silently so we
would say like, repeating like the first chapter, you're a bit slow.
It says like, is it okay to delay it? Okay, that's a good question.
So the question is, suppose that
for some reason you you have to you end up delaying
your movement longer than the Imams. So for instance, the Imam
is you're reciting. You're praying behind the Imam, your recitation
of the Fatiha is longer than his. He got he goes into record, and
you're still finishing your recitation. So there's two
possible answers.
The first is if you follow the opinion that your recitation of
the Fatiha and the prayer is always obligatory, which is the
position of Imam Shafi. And also remember that you have to also
recite the Fatiha yourself, then finish the recitation and then go
on to the next position. And also the position within those schools
is that if you're an entire move behind the Imam, you're still
within the prayer. So even if to demonstrate that the man goes into
Roko, you finishing your recitation, as the members coming
up, you go into Rahu, you're still fine, because you're just one
month behind. You just can't let it go further than that.
So if it's looking like it's gonna go further than sbw recitation
also, the other answer is if you're a Hanafi or a Maliki or if
you follow the opinions of Imam Abu Hanifa Imam Malik. You don't
have to do a recitation of the Imam suffices for you. So you
don't even have to you will never be in that position. Because even
when there's the prayers out loud or silent
The Imams or sensations suffices for all those who are following in
the opinions of Abu Hanifa nomadic so you don't even have to put
yourself in that position
while the mom is reciting Well,
my mom and my mind can we see like, any minor mistakes and my
mom
makes us scared by the mom. For example, if one said, instead of
standing and got up after realizing their errors, they do
not need to perform the two prostrations for forgetfulness,
their mom absorbs your mistakes, however, you have the loss, of
course,
then they must exit the company and come back. Okay, so just Just
to wrap this part up here. So regarding reciting behind the
Imam, some of the automat have held that it's obligatory in every
record for the for the mountain to recite, at least sort of
you shouldn't do it while the Imam is reciting. There's even a Hadith
from the prophets of Allah, they have a son in which somebody was
doing exactly that they were reciting while he was reciting.
And he after this Allah He turned back and he said, who was trying
to steal the prayer from me or something to that regard, meaning
don't do it. Most, most of the time, if you're in a masjid, where
is somebody where the Imam is knowledgeable and knows that
there's people behind them who are going to be reciting the Fatiha
themselves, you'll usually find that they'll recite the fattier
and they'll take a short break. And then they'll start the next
sort of, in the expectation that anybody who's reciting behind them
will be doing it in that short break.
And then as far as mistakes, so any mistakes that you make, like
you make the wrong movement,
you in this case, you sit down when you should have been standing
up and you correct it immediately or anything like that doesn't
obviate your prayer and you can continue just following the Imam,
you know, just returned to the correct position. And you don't
have to make the frustration of forgetfulness, which you would do
if you were praying alone, or the Imam does. If the Imam is the one
that makes the mistake. I'm the exception. So this is if you lose
or do or if you speak, and also probably should be here as if
like, one of the things that will break your prayers if you eat or
drink anything and your prayer, which sounds ridiculous, but you
might have something in your mouth and you find it and you swallow
it. You've eaten during the prayer. So that also would would
break your prayer. In those cases, you have to stop praying and you
come back and you'll be joining the per ad at that point that you
joined it so the prior the prior records, you have to make those
up.
I know there was a lot. Anybody have any questions?
All right, good.
Swallow
you can drink just not in during the prayer. But because drinking
is obviously something that's completely outside of solo, just
like speaking. You're not allowed to speak you're not allowed to
even laugh and not not drink or or eat anything during the actual
solar. So yeah, even though taraweeh is long, sometimes. You
can't like reach down and grab a bottle of water.
On Thursdays I see guys like checking your email.
Yeah, that's no, no, that's not
I mean, I I know some sometimes people I've actually seen this is
a true story. I was I was in I was praying in a masjid.
It was I was out there had somebody's phone started ringing
while we were in St. Jude. And the person took the phone out
and said, I'm praying I'll call you right back.
But you're not praying anymore. She was left taking your phone
call.
accidentally go get a strap like you see something real quick. Is
that easier prayer? No, no, no.
It's a matter of fact, I want to ask the CHE police question
because, you know, maybe a number maybe it doesn't ever come up for
a lot of people. But even if you end up reading something while
you're praying, right? Because you could be praying somewhere and
there's a book in front of you or a sign or something and you and
you find that you're actually reading that while you're praying.
It doesn't it doesn't invalidate your prayer. So looking around and
being distracted by stuff, none of that invalidates your prayer. The
only things that are that your first actual vocalizing some kind
of sound.
Eating, drinking or losing your will do or
excessive movement like in the case that he was explaining like
somebody was pulling out their phone and checking it. Any
excessive unnecessary movement will also break your your soul
to close your eyes.
So, the automat recommend that it's better to keep them open.
Unless
closing your eyes will help you concentrate. Some people it's it's
actually it's like a because it's like a distraction for them. But
for some people it actually helps them make
to close their eyes while they're praying, they're better able to
focus on, you know, the recitation of the Quran, whether they're
reciting or listening to a recitation and to focus, you know,
their hearts on Allah. So if that's the case, then it's fine,
you can do it, although the standard is to keep your eyes
open.
And also, to that point, one of the things that's also recommended
is that you find a point to focus on and try to keep your eyes
focused on that point, if possible.
I'm going to just jump into chapter 25. PAGE 52 Anybody wants
to take over the reading
nobody
has one.
Every mom should have an assigned corrector
of his of his recitation, particularly entirely as Imam
Malik said, the most knowledgeable person regarding the recitations
should not be the prayer, but rather they should be the
corrector for if the most knowledgeable person made the
mistake that people may think that is a correct recitation of which
they had no knowledge. No speaking of memorization, but rather
knowledge on recitations sense of they are very easy to decipher.
Okay, so that's, that's an important point to jump in on. So.
The chapter says that every Imam should have an assigned character.
And we'll say,
if you're praying in a small group, like two or three people,
it's recommended and you should do it. But it's probably not as
important as if you're praying as if, when you're praying in public
or in a in a masjid or in a large group. But there should be
somebody who is, at least as knowledgeable in mathematics is
more knowledgeable, particularly in the Torah way, who can correct
the recitation of the Amen.
And mmm, next point is really, it just goes to show you know, the,
the wisdom and the brilliance of the magnetic is that it shouldn't
be the most knowledgeable person that leads the probe rather than
most knowledgeable person should be the one who sit back and make
sure that that person is leading correctly, because if it's the
most knowledgeable one who's going to correct them, and also an a
really important point here is that knowledge means not that they
know the most Quran, but rather that they're more knowledgeable
about the ways of reciting Quran.
Sharia does point out that we can expound on this here, and it is a
really vast topic on the different recitations. But sometimes,
sometimes, it's something that you aren't familiar with, and you hear
the recitation of the Quran and you go, that was a mistake, it's
not a mistake, it's actually a completely valid recitation we
might not be familiar with.
That's another reason why somebody and especially in a large group,
we should assign somebody to be them, say, because you don't want
everybody in the congregation and trying to correct something and
they might be wrong. You know, that's just chaotic. So it's
better to have one person whose job it is.
Just like, it's always good to have an assigned Imam, especially
in a masjid or any site, somebody to call the event, so that you
don't have people you know, everybody jumping up to do it. And
sometimes people aren't qualified to do so.
It's not pointed out in the chapter, but also, especially
during tarawih, some of the automat permit that the Maasai
hold a copy of the Quran in their hand while they're praying.
So that there's no no no chance of a mistake being made, and they're
missing it.
If there's no mistaking the person directly behind the email should
correct him, those on the sides or in the back should not because
they would have to raise their voices. And this would cause
confusion, okay, so that their returns to the point about having
someone assigned and not having everyone in the congregation
thinking that it's their responsibility.
If nobody's assigned the person directly behind the Imam, if
you're someone who's not very familiar with the recitation of
the Quran, and you you're in the front row, and you know that
there's somebody next to you that knows a lot more than you do, let
us switch places with them or let them get behind the Imam and take
that position so that it won't fall on you and you're not able to
do it.
movement the men behind him say subhanallah are the women would
tap the top of their left hand with their right hand, not
clapping. If the mom did not hear in time when the congregation was
move with him, even if an error, there's only one exception, and
that was a big amount as of a car. In in this case, they would not
stand with him since the Prophet peace and praise be upon him said
and they were caught, like misery in the prayer
Okay, so
for errors in movement, not in recitation errors and recitation
the way, the proper way to for the siesta correctly, ma'am is to
recite, or to remind him of the correct word or set of words or
pronunciation that should have been in place.
And he'll just repeat that until a man
hears him or corrects himself for errors and movement, the summons
for the men to say subhanallah loudly enough so that the man will
hear them and correct his movement. If he doesn't hear them
in time, or nobody notices in time,
then you just follow the email. And if he has to, if he has to
make a peripheral station at the end of the prayer because of the
error, then that's fine. But you don't stop following the Imam just
because you know that that's not what you're supposed to be doing.
A good example is like,
it's the second you're in the second workout. And instead of
sitting for childhood, he stands up. So he makes the dude sits,
makes me do it again. And instead of sitting for childhood stands
up, say, subhanAllah, if he's already stood all the way up, then
you just follow him.
And it'll be corrected at the end by the man, he'll, he'll realize
it. Um, you don't just stay sitting there. Because you know
that it's, you have to follow the meme. That's the point. The only
exception is in the last record. So if it's,
if you're printing a shot, I say, and it's fun, it's fun. And the
Imam adds a fifth. You don't follow him, you stay sitting until
he realizes and and he comes and sits again. And then you finish
the prayer.
And the Hadith here that shabby quotes is, adding a Raka is like
usually, in the prayer, it's sort of and it's not good, you don't
add to it. And also the description that she had to use
here of the way that women alert. The imam of a mistake is tapping
the top of the left hand with the right hand, which is not clapping,
but it's like clapping on the back of your hand.
So the point being that you make a noise. I'm not sure about why that
distinction exists, the automat obviously has made it but the
point is that you make a noise, but you know, you don't vocalize
anything.
So the next part is very, pretty involved. So any questions
on what we're up to now?
So if you
and you forget, or you lose count,
what is what should you do? Okay, that's a good so you're praying,
like, say you're the man or you're playing by yourself? And you
you're not sure what rocker you're on? So there's two opinions, the
majority of the alumni have held. So the gym holder holds that.
If you're 50% or less sure. So you don't know you're like, I don't
know if I don't know if this is the second or the third Raka. I
can't remember. But it doesn't rise to the level that you're more
unsure then. Sure. So you're like I think I did it. But I don't know
for sure you assume that you did it. Right. And you continue right?
Whatever you feel more strongly on.
The only exception to that is the School of Malak mathematics
position was, if you're not sure, then even a little bit of you're
not sure as you didn't do it. So that would be the default, did I
or didn't make real cool? Or Did I did I not is this reason this the
third rocket, whatever you're unsure of, in the opinion of the
mimetic is any type of unsureness. You, you have to assume that you
didn't do or whatever. The other three major schools say that you
should, you shouldn't judge it on how unsure you are. So if you're
kind of confident, and you assume that you did it
the whole next chapter,
the next chapter, and it's
not only three pages, but yeah, it's on this and it's, it gets a
little complicated to you, we're gonna take our time with it, and
is 817
We're gonna get started with it, we might finish it, but it does
get complex. So we're gonna go slow with it. And if you have a
question at any time, please just interrupt. I'm going to take over
the reading duties on this just so we can go through it and I can
stop at the places that we might need to stop and you could stop me
rather than having to stop a different reader.
So chapter 26, on page 53, is pseudo self forgetfulness
prostration.
Allah has given us a way to correct our mistakes in prayer.
The very meaning of insan human being is the creature that has
messianic or forgetfulness. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said if
We did not make mistakes then Allah would replace us with
another creature that would earn so that they could repent and he
could forgive. The prophets Allah Allahu alayhi wa salam made
himself made mistakes in the prayer, which is how we know how
to handle such errors. He sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said I
only forget or am made to forget on purpose so that I can set an
example. So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam here is telling
us two things. The first hadith is that forgetfulness is part of our
nature, it's the way that Allah created us and even the name for
the human being an Arabic insan comes from the fact that we are we
have a forgetful nature.
And there's a lot of really deep wisdoms behind that going all the
way back to the time of Sega Adam, and he said to salaam that we
might get into at another point.
Also, he sallallahu alayhi wa sallam made mistakes in the prayer
either on purpose, or Allah caused him to do some some kind of
forgetfulness in the prayer so that the example can reset,
because we will be doing those things in our prayers, we're gonna
see it in our lifetimes, our Imams will do it, we'll do it. And so in
order to set that example, for us, he saw Allahu alayhi wa and he was
off, it was sudden either made those mistakes on purpose or law
caused him to make those mistakes, and then he was able to set the
example for us.
So continuing the mechanism for rectifying a mistake in the prayer
is simply by adding Sajida Tane meanings to sagittis, after the
after making up for the mistake below are listed the common
mistakes and how to rectify them.
So the first error in precondition to how to have self to how to have
close and place time or the Qibla. So if you're don't have will do
also your purity of yourself is not met. Purity of your closer to
place, it's not the right time for the prayer or your you have the
wrong Qibla that's one of the mistakes.
If it is Tahara itself on the self, then the entire prayer is
void, you exit and repeated correctly. If it is the horror of
clothes and place, then rectify within the prayer if possible. For
example, the prophet Sall, Allahu Allah, He was someone took off his
sandals when the angel do rain, and he's informed him that there
was an agenda on it. If we discovered after the prayer, then
repeat the prayer properly. And by repeating the prayer properly
here, we mean so in the first example, it's if it's the horror
of self, then the entire prayer is void, exit and repeat correctly,
meaning go make do or if you have to make also you make also. And
then you come back and you complete the end, you repeat the
prayer from the beginning, no matter how many, how much of it,
you finished, even if you had completed it. And the same thing
for the clothing, if it's something that you can correct
while you're in the prayer, there's some kind of an agenda on
your shoes or on your, on your coffee or something like that. And
you just take it off, and that's fine. And you continue as soon as
you discover it. If you don't discover it until after the sale
was over, then you have to repeat it.
If it turned out to be the time was too early, it is void and must
be repeated. Obviously, that's correct time. If the Qibla was
incorrect, if one is still in prayer, then he or she can be
directed to the right Qibla and continue normally, if they already
completed the prayer, then they need only to make up for it. If
the time is still in. If the time is out, then it is okay. And they
do not need to do anything. So
for if the prayer is too early, you started praying and then you
realize that you already finished this alone, you realize that it's
not even time for go home yet.
And you realize that it's not really time football yet, then you
just have to pray it when the time comes in. You didn't get it in
early at all. There's no earliest.
If your cable is wrong, and somebody comes up to you in terms
you then just turn in that direction and keep and keep
praying. If you realize after the prayer that the Qibla was wrong,
but the time for that prayer has already passed, then you're fine.
And if it's still within that time, and you realize that you had
the one command and you repeat the prayer.
That's okay.
Forgetting sort of 30 if they realize this error within the
prayer, then they simply recite the fatty head twice in the next
Lockhart as recorded from seeing the Alma m&r koto Brody, Allah
Han. However, if the prayer is over, then they realize that they
missed the Fatiha and Raha they must repeat the prayer. So
reciting selected Fatiha in every record is obligatory. If you're
still praying, you're still within the prayer and you realize that
you forgot it in the first or second or third. Then you you
write you say refer to her twice and that comes to us directly from
satan Alma radula Han. If the prayer is over and you realize
that you're Mr. Fatiha one other cause then you have to replay it
because it just it has invalidated the prayer Suburgatory in every
single rock.
We say forgetting to recite a sutra after the Fatiha this does
not invalidate the prayer and requires no explanation. So again,
the Sunnah is in prayers that are
in all prayer in the form
was to raka you received the Fatiha and then you recite another
Surah with it or at least a portion of a surah. That's the
Sunnah.
If you forget to do that, and you already leave that out for some
reason, it doesn't affect the prayer and you just your prayer
still acceptable, although it's better to do it, obviously,
because there's, there's, it's the Sunnah, and there's a reason why
the profits a little bit earlier was sudden and taught us that way.
The reasons are expensive, and the most important of which is that
it's the sun and so we should do it.
For getting proper recitation by not knowing the verses or earning
in touch, we touch with meaning proper pronunciation of the Quran,
it does not invalidate the prayer and requires no explanation. So
again, if you make a mistake, and in your recitation of the sources,
and there's a difference of opinion on this, it relates to the
fact to
some of the older
Imam Shafi or more strongly held that if you make a mistake in your
recitation of the Fatiha itself, then your prayer is invalid. So
you have to correct that recitation, practice it learn it
and get it correct. And if you make if it's a mistake, that just
that you don't know it, or don't know the correct pronunciation,
then you have to correct that mistake. Because again, remember
chef his position was at the fattier is obligatory in every
single record for every single person who is in it, not just the
amen
and so that's his position. The other of honor my say that, if
it's a mistake, even if it's in the photo, it's fine.
For getting to make record, that record is invalid, they simply
play pray another Raka and due to sujood self followed by the hair
before the salon. So the to here is in the last shot hood, before
you sit for the rest of the hair to Leila, whose idea to me right.
So you do all of that. But before you say salaam you make two more
such this is you
sit sofa loss and you and then you sit back up and then you say this
if they slammed out, which is
an Arabic English colloquialism, but if you finish the prayer with
salaam, and then you discover it, then you add the raka after the
St. Jude and to hear so long as not too much speed speech ensued
after the salam. If talking ensued, I II talking beyond the
subject of the Forgotten matter in the prayer and repeat the entire
prayer. Alright, so
if you miss Raka, in the prayer
and you realize that before you finish the prayer, you you
realize, you know, I didn't I didn't, I didn't make record in
the first or second record. And now that you know, now I'm sitting
here and showered. So you do you do the here, you know, all the way
through. Then you make sujood sit makes Jude come up, and then you
finish with your salon. If you realize it after you already made
Salem, then you just you do it afterwards. So long as you haven't
spoken more than Oh, you know what I didn't make, I forgot to make
real cool and one of those and one of the records. So now I have to I
have to make this. If you talk beyond that, then you have to
repeat the entire prayer because you've already separated
sufficiently from that prayer. You're it's completely not
attached to the prayer any longer. I hope that makes sense.
Clear everybody.
Alright, for getting a sense of that. For example, the person
realized that they did one Sajida and one of the records that Raka
is invalid as above, and they simply pray another Raka and due
to sedusa, followed by the two here before the salam if they
slammed up so it's exactly the same process as if you miss Iroko.
Then I believe when we read the same things,
you realize it, you make another one, you pray another Raka and
then you make two prostrations
before giving the Sudan if you already gave the salam and you
realize it, then you just make the prostrations afterwards and last
there's been a lot of speech or you've left the price of the
prayer, which should be added in. So if you got up and you left and
you went somewhere else and then you realize you know what i i
should have it's too late in every objection after there was a repeat
the prayer at that point. Forgetting the Tisha heard the
record remains valid simply due to frustrations and that the here
before the salam.
So in this case, you don't have to do anything additional, you just
do the two prostrations for getting the proper wording and
it's a childhood. This does not invalidate a prayer and requires
no explanation, but one must go learn
forgetting an entire