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    Posted: 22 May 2008 at 5:28am
COMMON MISTAKES MADE IN SALAAH
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Common Errors in Prayer That MUST Be Avoided:-

1. Reciting Surat al-Fatiha fast without pausing after each verse.
The Prophet (SAW) used to pause after each verse of this Surah. (Abu Dawood)

2. Sticking the arms to the sides of the body, in Rukoo' or Sujood, and sticking the belly to the thighs in Sujood.

The Messenger of Allah (SAW) said: "Let not one of you support himself on his forearms (in Sujood) like the dog. Let him rest on his palms and keep his elbows away from his body." (Sahih Muslim)

The Messenger of Allah (SAW) used to keep his arms away from his body during Rukoo' and Sujood that the whiteness of his armpits could be seen (Sahih Muslim).THIS IS ONLY FOR MEN ACCORDING TO IMAAM ABU HANIFAH (RA) WALLAHU AALAM.

3. Gazing upward during prayer. This may cause loss of concentration. We are commanded to lower our gaze, and look at the point at which the head rests during Sujood.

The Prophet (SAW) warned: "Let those who raise their gaze up during prayer stop doing so, or else their sights would not return to them. [I.e. lose their eyesight].� (Muslim)

4. Resting only the tip of the head on the floor during Sujood.
The Prophet (SAW) said: "I am commanded to prostrate on seven bones the forehead and the nose, the two hands [palms], the two knees, and the two feet." (Sahih Muslim)
Applying the above command necessitates resting the forehead and the nose on the ground during Sujood.

5. Hasty performance of prayer which does not allow repose and calmness in Rukoo' or Sujood.

The Messenger of Allah (SAW) saw a man who did not complete his Rukoo' [bowing], and made a very short Sujood [prostration]; he (SAW) said: "If this man dies while praying in this manner, he would die upholding a religion other than the religion of Muhammad."

Abu Hurayrah (RA) said: �My beloved friend, Muhammad (SAW) forbade me to perform postures of prayer copying the picking of a rooster; (signifying fast performance of prayer), moving eyes around like a fox and the sitting like monkeys (i.e. to sit on thighs)." (Imam Ahmad & at-Tayalisi)

The Messenger of Allah (SAW) said: �The worst thief is the one who steals from his own prayer.� People asked, 'Messenger of Allah! How could one steal from his own prayer?' He (SAW) said: "By not completing its Rukoo' and Sujood."(At-Tabarani & al-Hakim).

To complete Rukoo' is to stay in that posture long enough to recite 'subhana rabbiyal Adtheem' three times, SLOWLY, and 'subhana rabbiyal-a'ala' three times, SLOWLY, in Sujood.

He (SAW) also announced: �He who does not complete his Rukoo' and Sujood, his prayer is void." (Abu Dawood & others)

6. Counting Tasbeeh with the left hand
The Prophet (SAW) used to count Tasbeeh on the fingers of his right hand after Salaah.

lbn Qudamah (RA) said: "The Messenger of Allah (SAW) used his right hand for Tasbeeh." (Abu Dawud)

The above Hadeeth indicates clearly that the Prophet (SAW) used only one hand for counting Tasbeeh. No Muslim with sound mind would imagine that the Prophet (SAW) used his left hand for counting Tasbeeh. A�ishah (RA) said that the Prophet (SAW) used his left hand only for Istinjaa', or cleaning himself after responding to the call of nature. He never used it for Tasbeeh.

Yasirah (RA) reported:� The Prophet (SAW) commanded women to count Tasbeeh on their fingers.

The Messenger of Allah (SAW) said: "They (the fingers) will be made to speak, and will be questioned (on the Day of Resurrection.)" (At-Tirmithi)

The above Hadeeth indicates that it is preferable to count Tasbeeh on the fingers of the right hand than to do so on Masbahah (rosary; beeds).

7. Crossing in front of a praying person.
The Messenger of Allah (SAW) warned: "Were the one who crosses in front of a praying person to know the consequences of doing so, he would have waited for *forty better than to cross in front of him." (Sahih Bukhari and Muslim).*The forty in the tradition may be days months or even years.

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4. Resting only the tip of the head on the floor during Sujood.
The Prophet (SAW) said: "I am commanded to prostrate on seven bones the forehead and the nose, the two hands [palms], the two knees, and the two feet." (Sahih Muslim)
If need to be so precise!
The bones involved here make a total of 25 bones(i.e., 1 Cranium + 2 Tibias+ 20 Phalanges + 2 Carpals); what gives? The nose has no bone! You can look at the skeleton and count!
I am sorry about the reporter for attributing this to Prophet(saw) Isn't this time for reviewQuestion



Edited by Sign*Reader - 23 May 2008 at 2:37pm
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Bi ismillahi rahmani raheem

assalamu alaikum

Review your self first then the translation then the translator then the difference between the Islamic definition of something and the western definition of something [keeping in mind the previous two steps] and then ask your self what are you assuming in all of this and taking for granted.

once all that is done you can then allow your self the luxury of Questioning the authority of imam muslim not becouse he simply is imam Muslim but because you are so beneath him in your capacity to understand you need to go through this lengthy process just to be able to say your questioning has scientific merit and is impartial and free from any emotion or rather your nafs and jahaliyah [meaning the reality of your state not as an insult].

Edited by rami - 23 May 2008 at 11:16pm
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Auzubillahi minash shaitan ir Rajeem,
Bismillah ir Rahman ir Rahim,
 
Quote 4. Resting only the tip of the head on the floor during Sujood.
The Prophet (SAW) said: "I am commanded to prostrate on seven bones the forehead and the nose, the two hands [palms], the two knees, and the two feet." (Sahih Muslim)

 

The list ads up to 8 and not seven

Head = 1
+
Nose = 2
+
 Two hands = 4
+
Two knees = 6
+
Two feet = 8.
 
Please note that integrals of prayer, and for that matter all aspects of prayer can have minute differences between schools of thaughts.
The shafii regard 7 bones to be on floor for a valid sujood, where puting the nose (the 8th bone) on the ground is sunnah.
As apposed to this the hanafis say that all 8 shld be on the ground for a valid sujood.
 
These little differences are acceptable since we respect all Imams and consider their ways as correct. One should not be " correcting" another muslim on matters which have a difference of opinion between the four schools of thaught.
 
 
 
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Another one!

3. Gazing upward during prayer. This may cause loss of concentration. We are commanded to lower our gaze, and look at the point at which the head rests during Sujood.

The Prophet (SAW) warned: "Let those who raise their gaze up during prayer stop doing so, or else their sights would not return to them. [I.e. lose their eyesight].� (Muslim)

Give me a break!

Brother Rami I will concede to your superior knowledge that you have gained through the process of enlightened understanding so be generous and explain to an ignorant person.....Please pretty please

There is an old saying "Science without religion is lame but religion without science is blind"!

Do we understand KISS?

And for # 6 would you reinvent the key board for skipping A from the left hand for Allah?

And  what would you do to the Muslims who are lefties?





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bi ismilahi rahmani raheem

Another one!


All i see here is a person who has stopped questioning and understanding and simply contented [concluded] himself with what little he knows being the end of all things. this is what occurs when when you decide to judge something in an absolute manner as if it can never have a meaning other than what you think it means.

3. Gazing upward during prayer. This may cause loss of concentration. We are commanded to lower our gaze, and look at the point at which the head rests during Sujood.

The Prophet (SAW) warned: "Let those who raise their gaze up during prayer stop doing so, or else their sights would not return to them. [I.e. lose their eyesight].� (Muslim)

Give me a break!

Give me a break with your simple analysis 1400 years complicates things [so much for KISS]. lets take this literally for a moment and pretend we are all as myopic and modern  in our thinking [i.e lacking forsight about the reality of 600ad arabia and using Hollywood style analysis i.e movies as a source of reference] as you are. If you were standing in front of Allah and he was addressing you and you dared look up at him and stare at him all who would be present would say you directly insulted him and are deserving of punishment.

A Hadith; Allah in the latter parts of the night descends to the lower heavens looking for people who are calling out to him [not literal wording]. Allah of course doesn't actually descend this hadith merely denotes that he places more importance on dua in this part of the night. This hadith establishes one thing that when allah is paying extra attention to something [not that im implying the opposite can ever exists, his sight is complete after all] things occur more immediately.

how does this relate to the discussion grasshopper [American cultural reference for those living in the west but haven't cought up yet], well if you where praying in mecca or madinah behind allahs prophet [imagine actually praying behind him how special is that...wow more important than making dua in the last part of the night wouldn't you say]  and you insulted allah by looking up are you not deserving of punishment or at a least a friendly warning from his representative which is of course all this hadith is saying in its wording Ohh ultra literal one.

Brother Rami I will concede to your superior knowledge that you have gained through the process of enlightened understanding so be generous and explain to an ignorant person.....Please pretty please

You wouldnt understand its complicated.

And for # 6 would you reinvent the key board for skipping A from the left hand for Allah?

i should just throw a book at you its much easier than having to explain  every single time a books worth of prerequisite knowledge just so i can conclude with some sense of intelligence that there is a difference between a prohibition, advice,  warning and a difference between a hadith saying "the prophet said", "the prophet did", "i saw the prophet" and the interpretation and assumptions that go with them.

And despite all that you are actually right in your understanding on this last one Muslims should not use there left hand but hey im right handed and can count dhikr in my left hand if i so choose so why cant left handed people count with their right. This all goes towards my hypothesis of you being an Ultra literal.

why dont we rather address the more serious issue of discounting ahadith  solely based on their contents or rather your IQ, is your IQ the criteria by which we should judge the merit of a hadith becouse to me that is what you are claiming.

maybe i wouldn't be so forward if you weren't so certain...Allahu Allam.



Edited by rami - 25 May 2008 at 3:11am
Rasul Allah (sallah llahu alaihi wa sallam) said: "Whoever knows himself, knows his Lord" and whoever knows his Lord has been given His gnosis and nearness.
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Bi ismillahi rahmani raheem

Look its all right to question these things or even think it but there is a manner in which a person goes about finding answers to his questions. Claiming that its about time we review the most trusted collection of ahadith based on flimsy and weak analysis is not the right way and to actually conclude this is all that is left for us to do well lets just say it deserves to be criticized.


Edited by rami - 25 May 2008 at 1:37pm
Rasul Allah (sallah llahu alaihi wa sallam) said: "Whoever knows himself, knows his Lord" and whoever knows his Lord has been given His gnosis and nearness.
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