Yasir Qadhi – COVID, Taraweeh – Which is better, home or Masjid? Ask Shaykh YQ #186

			Our final question for today, brother, sell man from America somewhere in America, he says that
tarawih is about to be coming upon us again because of Ramadan and hamdulillah for that, and he is
saying that last year there was no public are aware because all the massages are closed this year,
the massage, some of them will be open, but there is still some risk. And so he is saying,
religiously speaking, what is the default position that is it better to pray with some risk? Or is
it better to stay at home? And also he mentions that he heard me say in a previous lecture many
years ago, that the prophets of Allah it said I'm always prayed at home. So he says that shouldn't
		

			this be taken therefore, that the default is to pray throw away at home?
		

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			So this is a good question. I'll answer the second bit. First. The profitsystem prayed thoroughly
had home because there was no public throw away that was announced during his timeframe. The reality
is that's not to throw away his NFL prayer. And that outside of normal bond, it is called tahajjud.
It is tahajjud. tarawih is the hedgehog when it is pretty normal. But that's the only difference and
to hedge It is generally prayed by your own and you prayed in the last third of the night. However,
the prophet system once in his life, he prayed his tahajjud Salah in the masjid. He went outside and
prayed it in the masjid in Ramadan. And so people stood behind him to pray. And then the next night,
		

			more people came, and then the third night dementias was packed. But there was no announcements
given. He didn't say, hey, people, let's go and do a throwaway prayer. It just so happened and this
became the basis of the throwaway prayer that are modeled the Allahu anhu re instituted now, if
somebody were to say that the default is sooner, we will say yes, the default is sooner, have to
pray at home, that 100 and the referee prayers, if that will bring you more for sure. And if you
will come closer to Allah subhanho wa Taala, then yes, that is better to do. You pray the Nuffield
prayers, the default is you pray alone, and you pray in private and you pray without the eyes of
		

			other people looking at you. However, reality is that being in the congregation and listening to the
Quran by a professional party, and you know going every single day, we will pray better and have
better who sure so the goal is to assure the goal is to have that assure, and that assure the bulk
of us and I one of them, we will find it more when we pray in a congregation behind a professional
Imam behind the party of the Quran. That's when we're going to really feel the love and the
sweetness of Torah and the spirit of primal bond. And so we go and look at individual situations if
Mashallah Tabata Kala somebody himself is a Hatfield and knows the Koran and is able to recite on
		

			their own and finds great pleasure in that private and quiet time with between him and Allah azza wa
jal, then yes, I will say follow the sooner follow the sooner and go and pray that are we on your
own, but as you prepare more laid in private in the last third of the night, but who amongst us will
enjoy that more than and be able to pray? Because again, it's not just about it's about quality,
right? If we were to print on our own, we might pray 510 minutes. And that's it, most of us right?
Where whereas when we go to the masjid, we're going to pray a longer period, however, we now have
the complication of COVID. And so to answer this, I will say that the Sharia requires us to act
		

			wisely. And given that an entire year has gone and given that public awareness is now Mashallah much
higher. And given that vaccines are basically being given in many lands, and you write to me from
America, and more and more people, every single day, a million and a half people are being
vaccinated by the word hamdulillah. I myself have gotten the vaccination shots as well. And I say
this because I want to encourage people, I am not a believer in these types of conspiracy theories.
And I believe that it is sensible to obtain the COVID vaccine, it is sensible to do that. And I have
done this for myself and for my loved ones for my parents as well. So the point being that, when it
		

			comes to this issue of bringing in the COVID situation, I would say, I cannot answer you directly.
You know your situation best. If you or somebody in your house has a high vulnerability and they
have not yet been vaccinated, then I would actually encourage you to not intermingle with other
people because in the end of the day, being in a closed environment for an hour or two, even if
you're wearing masks, I mean you're really increasing the danger.
		

			exponentially. It's really that closed environment, if that were to take place in the open, and the
wind is blowing and whatnot, things are much easier. But realistically, it will take place in a
closed environment. Some massages are not even observing social distancing, some massages are not
going to be enforcing the mask policies depending on which area you're in. So if you have taken the
vaccine, and there is nobody who is vulnerable in your household, then this changes in situation, I
would say, then go back to the default of praying with the Gema. But if you haven't taken the
vaccine, and you or your loved one is at high risk, then I would honestly say, follow the Sunnah,
		

			and pray thoroughly at home. Because we don't want to, you know, too many too many people,
especially in our country of America, you know, 600,000 people have died, that's not a joke. 600,000
people have died. And this is, you know, Hamdulillah, we're seeing the light at the end of the
tunnel. But that light is still at the end of the tunnel, we are still not there yet in the clear
zone. And we cannot let our guard down at this point in time. So my sincere advice to you is to get
mushara of your family and friends and your doctor, the doctor that you trust, ask them about your
particular situation. And if overall, the health benefits and shallow data, or I'm sorry, the health
		

			risks are minimal, then definitely I would say the default isn't to go back to the norm. You see,
last year, there was just a lot of we didn't know the realities of the virus even, you know, some
brothers, you know, mentioned to me, so do you think we overreacted last year? And I said not at
all. On the contrary, I am very happy at my Masjid in particular East Plano Masjid, it was a of the
first to, you know, act in a very wise manner. Despite the fact that there was some pushback, but we
didn't understand what was going on. We didn't know how dangerous the virus wasn't, it turned out to
be very dangerous. We didn't know even the method of transmission at the time, we literally thought
		

			you know, your groceries might give you so again, there was a lot of unknowns, and we acted in the
correct manner. At the time. Now things have changed. And the two main things number one public
awareness. Can you imagine last year, if we had told people stand six feet apart and wear masks when
Ramadan came, nobody would have done that we would have been laughingstock of everybody they didn't
understand. Now, there is not a single family amongst us, except that they have lost a loved one or
they have lost a close family friend, at least in America I tell you not to single household has
been spared. This is a less cluttered, we accept the less clutter, but not a single household has
		

			been spared either immediately, or in their extended family and friends. People have passed away,
you know, I myself have plenty of family, friends, and even more acquaintances that have passed away
as a result of this, how can we now not take it seriously. And then the second thing that changes
the situation. So public awareness is one we now we can tell people, communities can tell people
stand this period apart and wear masks, and the majority of people will understand that's a huge
difference from last year. And then as well. We can tell people who have been vaccinated that they
are safer to come and I'll handle it our own Masjid, the East Plano Islamic Center, we will be
		

			offering tarawih prayers on site within our Masjid facility with both of those conditions, proper
social distancing, and the wearing of masks throughout the entire month of Ramadan, as well, we are
encouraging only those that have been vaccinated to come. That's what we are telling people we
cannot obviously check ourselves. But that is what we are encouraging that only those that have been
vaccinated to come and those that are not vaccinated or have somebody vulnerable because again, the
vaccine does not protect the virus from coming into your body and then transmitting the vaccine only
generally speaking, minimizes your own, you know symptoms and your own interaction with with the
		

			virus, however, you can still be a carrier. And so you might not be sick, you will go home to an
elderly relative to somebody who's immunocompromised, and you might be carrying the virus. So we
have to be very careful about this. But insha Allah to honor those communities that are able to, I
would encourage them to now think about bringing back our way into the masjid and also one thing we
should do as well. So the main point is to be in the vicinity in a close proximity for a long period
of time. So we should try to minimize the lengthy timeframes as well. If you want to pray more, go
home and pray. So we will be offering in our own mischief around an hour, the entire beginning to
		

			end and I encourage other communities to follow suit that an hour max from beginning of Asia to the
end of winter, try to do within 45 minutes to an hour just you know half a page or so. So the spirit
of that is done. And if you want to pray more to go back home and pray as long as you want. This is
our generic advice to other communities. But each community in each land is better situated to
answer specifically its own situation. And indeed Allah subhanho wa Taala knows best and with that
we come to the conclusion of today's episode. I'll see
		

			Next Tuesday until then, jack maloca said I want a robotic cat.