Yasir Qadhi – What is The Sunnah Way to Pray – Ask Shaykh YQ #264

			The next question actually, I'm not even going to quote a question because I'm simply going to
answer generically because I think it's time by that I address this issue directly. I have received
numerous questions since beginning this series almost more than two years ago. numerous questions
about the specifics of Salah and the Sunnah way to pray, I mean, literally every single aspect of
Salah raising the hands and where to place the hands and to go on the knees or the hands first or to
raise the hands during that they showed in order to the moving of the fingers or what not every
single point you know, people have been asking them hearing electrodes and somebody says, this is
		

			the Sunnah and this is the right way. And so you know, people are wondering I was taught to this way
in my school, the Shafi school the medic is called the Hohner Hanafi school and now I'm being told
this is against the Sunnah. So the generic question I'm asking on behalf of all of those
questioners, what is or even Is there a sunnah way to pray, and such that all the other ways are
incorrect. 107 me call Bernie in regionalen No, he lay him first earn Oh, rickety.
		

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			now I have dealt with this topic, generically and other q&a, but I guess it needs to be said in a
very direct manner so that inshallah young people understand my perspective, in the end of the day,
it's my opinion, take it or leave it, it's up to you what you want to do. So this type of question,
what is the sooner way to pray? And we hear a number of preachers, and this is very common in
YouTube channels and q&a, websites and whatnot. This is the sunnah to do. This is what the process
of did in the Salah he placed his hands here, he raised the hands there, he moved to the shahada
there, and therefore, the impression is given that anybody who does not do that particular opinion
		

			is somehow going against D soon. So this goes back to a broader question of methodology. And I need
you to understand this very simple point. And again, this is very introductory and basic level,
although my Q and A's generally are very introductory level, but sometimes we have to introduce
concepts and facts. There are two predominant philosophies and again, it's very simplistic, there
are two predominant philosophies when it comes to how we view the Islamic schools of law the
methods.
		

			The first is that we view them as attempting to understand the Sunnah as extrapolating from the
sunnah to us as the conduits, how do we approach the Sunnah through the mother type through the
methodology of the jurists. So the schools of law, the Hanafi, Shafi, Malik, and humbly and there
were more once upon a time, but these are the four main ones, all of them are attempting to
extrapolate from the Sunnah, and tell us what to do. That's the first paradigm. And that's the
paradigm of the schools of laws themselves. And of the bulk of the OMA for all of its history. There
is an alternative paradigm and that paradigm views the schools of law as competitors to the Sunnah,
		

			as if the schools of law are somewhat replacing the books of Hadith. And this paradigm, factually
speaking is a very minority paradigm. And there are some, you know, prominent scholars and and we
respect those scholars, but we do not at all impugn their intentions and we view them as people who
wanted the truth and one to, to to, you know, come close to Allah and His messenger. And they view
the schools of fifth as having deviated from the authentic sooner as even sometimes trying to
suppress or fight against the Sunnah. And this type of philosophy you find it amongst, for example,
the these type of you know, movements in Indian Pakistan. So the Hudson Han, the great scholar of
		

			the last century, maybe even Imam Ashoka, Annie, a little bit of that with we get from your
membership and even though it's not as explicit, but still they mature Kanye was a great scholar
from Yemen over 250 years ago. So in the 18 hundred's middle 1800s, early 1800s Imam Ashoka was one
of the most famous scholars of Yemen and he had this disciple of Yanni Hadith if you like streak, of
course in the last generation, no doubt the one who embodied this type of view, the most famous and
the most respected, is the great scholar we love and admire and respect him. Sheikh Muhammad Nasir
de ll Barney, and all of these type of genre that type of people, generally speaking, they felt that
		

			the books of Hadith should be our direct reference that there should not be omitted
		

			It'll a conduit which should go directly to the Hadith, and then extrapolate what we need, you know
from from them. And that's the perhaps was best or this sentiment was perhaps best embodied in the
famous book. The prophets prayer describes the lower Selim, as if you are seeing it from the
beginning to the end from the tech below to the slim as if you are seeing it. And this book, it kind
of gave that presumption, maybe even I would say, illusion, that the sooner is all that you need
directly to understand Islamic law, and that the presumption was there that every minute detail was
unambiguously and categorically preserved, and that anybody who wanted to could follow it directly
		

			and anybody who had an alternative view was somehow rejecting or dismissing the Sunnah of the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam. But you see, this type of notion is simply not correct. And what
ended up happening is that, instead of, you know, trying to go back to the sooner essentially
another school was created with his own paradigm and its own methodology. And, frankly, this school
in and of itself is not only much less developed than any of the other schools, it has much less
scholarship, historically speaking, but also because it is not as developed it began differing
amongst itself, and its practitioners were actually not consistent in extrapolating the laws of
		

			physics. Because you see, Islamic law is not about cutting and pasting snippets of the Quran and
Sunnah to form detail law. Islamic law is about interpretation. It's about extrapolation. It's about
finding exceptions. It's about reconciling that which might differ in the books of Hadith and
Sunnah. It's about working through the wording and what a wording implies when the process has said
this or did this what exactly does it mean? Is it haram is it why jobID is Mr. Habit? Is it is it a
one off? So the books of fic are not substitutes the books of sunnah? No, not at all. There's
completely separate genre, sunnah. And the books of sunnah is one science. The scholars have 50
		

			Their job is to take the Quran and the Sunnah, and other sources of Islamic law, and then present to
us codified Islamic law. So my position throughout all of these q&a is has always been that we
should understand the books of fic as being extrapolations of the sooner ie taking from the sooner
what it needs to and presenting to us, the sooner as we apply it. The notion that the books of
fiction are somehow an alternative to the books of sooner is incorrect. The books of Phil cover job
and the books are soon have a job to play. So therefore, to say that there's one methodology to pray
that is sooner, and all the other ways are bidder. That is simply not something that is going to
		

			come from me, I don't agree with this in the first place. I don't view the methods as coming with
this type of notion. And in fact, if you look at it, Allah subhanaw taala really has blessed and
protected our OMA above any other civilization in that what we agree upon, even in our Salah is
really everything. And what we disagree about is utterly inconsequential, and trivial. And I'm
standing by what I say. Look at all of the schools of Islamic law. All of the med hubs pray five
times a day. All of them include the TM with the Fatiha and the ROCOR understanding backup and the
to says this in every rocker, all of them have beginning with deadbeat and ending with the slim all
		

			of them say the same Athar so how do I bid Allah Subhana Allah Allah, Allah Who up are going up and
down that the Shah hood, Salah Ebrahimian all of them are in agreement about the exact number of
rock out of the fold and when to be quiet and when to be reciting out loud And subhanAllah it's a
and we're gonna say this as well. Even non Sudanese have the basics of Salah down, you know, to
basically the same thing even the baldies disease, the Twelver Shia might be minor differences but
in reality is the same structure we recognize this dear Muslims recognize that outside of our Shadia
look at any other faiths civilization there is nothing comparable Allah has protected this deen and
		

			the Sunnah prayer of the Prophet system has permeated throughout all of the strands of Islam. Now,
when it comes to where to place the hands, do you really think this is something we should be
bickering and fighting over? Do you really think that we should say, Oh, this is the only way and
every other way is bolted and wrong and bitter and balala? This is simply wrong brothers and
sisters. It's a wrong attitude. It's a wrong spirit. And it inculcates a sense of arrogance to
yourself and disdain to other Muslims. It creates a sense of breaking the unity of the OMA, this is
the look at what is in common and then realize that hamdulillah in
		

			In reality, the Sunnah of the Prophet says and really is preserved. Now when it comes to the finer
details, and I don't want to go into a lot of details here, but every single school has its
evidences. And we need to create a culture not just of tolerance of genuine respect. So what is the
sooner way to pray? Who's going to tell you what the sooner way to pray is? Every month has its own
evidences. So I will give you I don't want to go into too much detail but just to give you a flavor
of this, the famous controversy of refferal Yeah, Dane right. When you're standing up from the Roku
and when you when you're going out, should you raise your hands up or not? Well, two are the two and
		

			a half of the month has basically because there's reports and you have to say you should you know,
and you know, one of them that have said the Hanafi madhhab says you should not you should not do
that for your thing. Okay, so those that say you should do Subhanallah they have so many evidences,
the Mohammed Bahati actually wrote a booklet called the treaties of refer your name in Salah, and he
brought me dozens of narrations of the tablet room the type of tab rune from the Prophet SAW Selim,
dozens of narrations that we do this. Imam Al Bukhari was very certain we should refer you then.
Good for him to humbly school the Shafi school many of the Maliki school they followed all of this
		

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			are we going to accuse the Hanafi school of rejecting the Sunnah? Oh, honey forward, you have to
say, bow Hanifa says I have an authentic hadith from my chef from his chef from a Nephi from you
know, even was rude, and it is reported without knitted meat. I had a humble that even was rude
stood up to say, I'm going to teach you how the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam prayed and he
prayed in front of his students. And he raised his hand at the beginning and he did not raise them
until the entire end of the Salah. This is even Mr. Guardiola one for those who say that the Hanafi
madhhab or anyone who is not following the Sunnah. Would you dare stand in front of even Massoud
		

			somebody who spent 30 years you know even before Islam he was in Makkah you know sometimes I want to
say 30 I mean even as a pre Islam he was in Morocco the Prophet says that I'm somebody who spent
money from the beginning one of the first five or seven conversation was rude, even miss rude
accompany the Prophet says I'm in Makkah and in Medina, he was there for the entirety of the
revelation pretty much of the earliest of converts. Would you say to evenness rude or rude? You
don't know the soon would you say that to him? Well, honey, Farah Hambleton is following even
Massoud, he has his evidence in his mind. That is the Sunnah in his mind. That is the Sunnah. And in
		

			fact, this notion of not following the Sunnah, and you're wrong or what not any our early scholars,
you know, debated this and they solved it long time ago. So Fianna 30 narrates from an Mahira that
Abraham in the hype was asked that what are you going to do about the Hadith that the Prophet says
and and raised his hands when he did record Okay, Abraham enough die is the basically the sheer
hubbub behind militia say the Shabbat behind it right? So the Hanafi school is coming from inukai
From even muster this predominately the Hanafi school. So Brian Mackay said that so the question
was, what are you going to do to the Hadith? Why even heard that he said the Prophet sallallahu
		

			wasallam raised his hands in ROCOR when he went down to the court, okay, what element who accepted
Islam? I think in the eighth or ninth year of the hijra, he was with the processor for a short
period of time. It Brian Mackay said, If why they've been hedger saw the Profit System raise his
hand once, then we know that Abdullah bin Massoud saw the Profit System never raised his hand more
than 50 times Which one should we follow? So the point being the one who comes and tells you it is
the sunnah to raise your hands when you do it, according to God. And by the way, just for the
information, I will also do that for you then in my own silo. But I understand the Hanafi school has
		

			its understanding of the sooner they're not trying to reject the sooner they're not trying to
reinterpret, the sooner they have an authentic sooner and they prefer that over the others no big
deal. Why do we need to problematize why do we need to come and say oh, whoever does this as soon as
the other one is better? My problem is in the second not the first if you feel one is closer to the
sooner good for you do not feel the other is farther from the sooner do not feel that the other is
lesser wanting to to reject the sooner the placing of the hands again Yanni. You know, the scholar
who wrote the book about the process of prayer described he has a position which is actually none of
		

			the four Sunday schools actually had held that technical position none of them and he felt this is
the Sunnah, as if the entirety of the OMA did not know the Sunnah until this book is written, you
know, 1400 years later, it doesn't make any sense brothers and sisters, there are authentic
narrations, authentic narrations that some of the Sahaba prayed with their hands, you know, on their
stomach. Others prayed with their hands below the navel, it and even Massoud they played they prayed
with their hands below the navel which is that the Hanafi school their authentic memory
		

			That Tabby rune, they prayed with their hands at their size, which is the Maliki madhhab. And
there's a narration as well that one of the Sahaba put it on his chest and the chest that the sharp
three says the chest means the lower chest over here, right? Only one interpretation, which is
really discarded by the four schools by and large set on the upper portion of the chest, which is
over here. So this hadith scholar comes along, and again, we respect and admire him. And he goes,
this is the sooner you must put it here, high up on the chest. None of the four schools really held
that as an interpretation, but because he felt it is so now, so all of his followers felt this is
		

			the real soon, even though in reality, if you actually technically look at it, none of the earliest
called is held this view. But that's besides the point or even those that follow this opinion, no
big deal, in my opinion, you're wanting to follow the sun. My problem is not in taking an opinion.
My problem is in dismissing the other opinion is in claiming that those who are not following you
are rejecting the sooner the same issue of the Tashahhud. And again, just as just FYI. So you
understand, again, this author of the prophets prayer described, he had a particular interpretation.
And so this is the Sunnah. And he maneuvered through all of the Hadith to get to his opinion, good
		

			for him, Do realize in that maneuvering, that's a sort of, that's legal hermeneutics, other scholars
would have a different maneuvering, because within the books of Hadith, one finds so many, sometimes
even contradictory narrations about the moving of the finger. In one version, the prophet system
would raise it, what does it mean raise it once and down or keep it raised? In another version? His
finger was up in another version, kinda you had Rico Ha, he would be moving it in a yet another
version, that thermal you had equal, then he would not move it. So how do you reconcile between all
of these, in reality, a little bit of ambiguity was tolerated. None of the earliest colors made it a
		

			big deal. That's why they said okay, he would raise it means he would raise it once. And so when
would you raise it? Clearly, you would raise it when it says a shadow Lie, Lie Lie. It makes
complete sense. That is one method. Another would have said, well, he would raise it means it's
continually raised. So they would keep it raised the entire way. Another mother had said he would
move it. So therefore this means you would raise it and you would move it, another mother took the
head, he says he would not move it. So keep it down. The point is, every one of the methods if you
ask them why they're doing it, guess what they're going to quote you. They're going to quote you a
		

			hadith, they're going to quote you a sunnah. So this notion of which way is the authentic way to
pray, the Salah, the responses, all of the ways that the Muslim ummah has embraced out of all of the
legal schools are authentic. The problem has come that when this notion has spread among certain
groups of people, that it's my way or the highway, that it is only one way that is authentic, then
this this has created intolerance. It has created a feeling of elitism, and that feeling of elitism
and arrogance is far worse, to be like then, you know, making a mistake and trying to follow the
sooner. The sooner way to pray is the way any school of law has taught you any of the established
		

			schools of law. They're all sunnah. And they're all trying to grasp what the promises of them did.
And some level of ambiguity is completely fine. So pray the way that you have been taught to pray,
pray the way your parents taught you as long as it obviously, we expect they're following one of the
established schools of Sunni Islam. I'm not saying we invent our own way, obviously, but to claim
that one particular opinion is the only way and all of the other established opinions are rejecting
the Sunnah. I actually am strongly in disagreement with this and this has been my consistent
methodology throughout my entire q&a, we must create a culture not just of tolerance of difference
		

			of opinion, but respect when a scholar of caliber whose track record and reputation when Imam Abu
Hanifa or Imam Shafi Imam Malik, Muhammad Ali, Mohammed Ozar. You remember booth Oh, remember later
in San Jose a position, they have every right to hold it. And even if we disagree, we disagree with
respect. Even if we say You know what, that's a good opinion. But I'm not going to follow it fine.
You don't follow it. You follow your shareholder teacher, but do not disrespect and do not accuse
these great Imams of rejecting the Sunnah. And most importantly, do not create this notion within
your circles within your Masjid within your community that only your opinion is the correct opinion.
		

			And all of the other established opinions of giants of their own ama are somehow misguided No, live
and let live and you choose your scholars that you respect and you follow them and hamdulillah but
don't create controversy or disharmony. So with this inshallah I will not return to this question. I
don't believe there is only one way that is authentic to pray Salah all of the ways that our
religious teachers and our folklore have done have legitimacy to them. And I have my own way of
praying which is generally speaking, following one of the schools but so be it. It's because I've
been trained and taught that way. I don't think it is the only way all of them they what they agree
		

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			They disagree about and that's the beautiful thing of our faith Allah has preserved this deen and
the Sunnah has been preserved in all of these mudarabah of Islam. How would this inshallah we come
to the conclusion of today's lecture will continue next week shoulders Zack moolah head cinematic
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