The Sharh Bulugh Al Maram (Sajdatu Sahw) Questions and Answers [note]

 QUESTIONS AND ANSWER

 

QUESTION 1:

If you skip the tashahhud, and started surah Fatiha, to repair the salah that we should go back down to tashahhud? My understanding was once we standing upright we should not sit back down based on the hadith: The Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said: If the Imam stands up after the second rak‘ah, and remembers that he has to sit, before he straightens himself (upright), then he should sit down, and if he straightened upright, he should not sit and make two prostrations of forgetfulness. (Abu Dawud, No. 1036)

ANSWER_1:

-There are many occasions when praying behind an imam and he makes mistakes

-he makes 2 sajdas after the salat

-if he is able to repair the damage he can

QUESTION 2:

WHEN YOU HERE GOOD NEWS AND YOU PROSTRATE YOURSELF CAN YOU SPEAK FREELY TO ALLAH OR YOU HAVE TO RECITE A VERSE?

ANSWER_2:

-The scholars told what to recite as mentioned beforehand

-dua in every sajda is prescribed

-so you can make dua

-they dislike it done in the fard salat in English

-but you can do in your language in the nawafil

QUESTION 3:

CAN YOU DO SAJADAH ASH-SHUKR IF YOU PASS YOUR EXAMS OR GET A JOB? OR IS IT MAKROO?

ANSWER_3 :

-These are good examples

-drivers licence, passport, visa to make hijra, passing your exams etc...

-not fard to face qibla, or be in a state of wudhu, this is tasbeeh not salat

QUESTION 4:

I WAS TOLD BY MY LOCAL SHEIKH THAT IF YOU STAND UP AFTER YOU HAVE MISSED THE TASHAHUD, YOU HAVE ADDED TO THE SALAH AND SO HE TOLD ME DON'T DO THIS AND MAKE TWO SUJUUDS. IS THIS CORRECT? I KNOW YOU EXPLAINED THIS BUT IT’S STILL CONFUSING

ANSWER_4:

-The scholars say if you went far in your salat and cannot repair it

-you are asking questions as if the damage cannot be repaired

-this is why subhanallah is prescribed

-so the damage can be repaired

-he still have to do the sajda

QUESTION 5:

A man who prays salah and says he is  a Muslim and works in an Islamic bookshop, says he only believes 70% in the Quran, because he cannot be convinced that everything is the word of Allah?

Since things like inheritance are well explained in detail whereas important things like Riba are not discussed at all in comparison. He did not want to get proof from Sunnah?

Am I suppose to take this matter up with the owner of the bookstore because he is claiming to be a Muslim but does not even believe in the Quran’s authenticity. He is about 40 and from Pakistan?

ANSWER_5:

-Allah said this is a book in which there is no doubt

-this man has doubts

Alif-Lam-Mim. [These letters are one of the miracles of the Qur'an and none but Allah (Alone) knows their meanings]. (Al-Baqarah 2:1)

This is the Book (the Qur'an), whereof there is no doubt, a guidance to those who are Al-Muttaqun [the pious and righteous persons who fear Allah much (abstain from all kinds of sins and evil deeds which He has forbidden) and love Allah much (perform all kinds of good deeds which He has ordained)]. (Al-Baqarah 2:2)

Falsehood cannot come to it from before it or behind it (it is) sent down by the All-Wise, Worthy of all praise (Allah). (Fussilat 41:42) 

-he is a Shia, Berailvis, or Soofi

-it is hard to find a Pakistani with the correct Aqeedah       

-he wasn't told one of the 7 conditions of shahada is certainty

-he doesn’t know to doubt the Quran makes him a kaffir

QUESTION 6:

TO SUMMARIZE: TASLEEM AFTER SUJOOD WHEN YOU HAVE AN OPINION OR WHEN YOU HAVE PRAYED AN EXTRA RAKAH AND: TASLEEM BEFORE SUJOOD WHEN YOU DON’T HAVE ANY OPINIONS OR HAVE BEEN INFORMED ABOUT IT?

ANSWER_6 ::

-Yes this is correct

Sometimes, actually many times, I make mistakes during my prayers. Either I forget how many 'rakaas' I have done or something else of the sort. Do I stop my prayers and do them over, or continue?.

Shaykh Muhammad al-‘Uthaymeen was asked this question and said:

The correct view is that this does not invalidate your prayer, because doubts often come to a man without him wanting them to. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) explained the ruling concerning doubts in prayer, and that doubts fall into two categories:

1 – When the person doubts the number of rak’ahs he has prayed, but he thinks one of the two is more likely. In this case he should act upon what he is more certain of, and complete the prayer on that basis, then say the salaam and do the prostration of forgetfulness (sajdat al-sahw) after the salaam.

2 – When he doubts the number of rak’ahs, and neither number seems more likely to him. In this case he should act upon the lower number, because that is more certain and the higher number is doubtful, and he should complete the prayer based on the lower number, then do two prostrations for forgetfulness before the salaam. His prayer will not be invalidated in that case. [Fataawa al-Shaykh Muhammad al-‘Uthaymeen, 1/425]

QUESTION 7:

SALAAM SHEIKH, IF YOU CAN SEE SOMEONE IS ABOUT TO CROSS IN FRONT OF YOU DURING SALAH, CAN YOU PHYSICALLY BLOCK HIM FROM DOING SO? (STICKING YOUR ARM OUT)?

ANSWER_7:

-Yes you are to do so and if he continues. fight him

Abu Sa’eed al-Khudri (RA) who said: I heard the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) say: "If while you are praying, somebody intends to pass in front of you, prevent him; and should he insist, prevent him again; and if he insists again, then let him fight him, for he is a devil.” [Al-Bukhari (3274) and Muslim (505)]

QUESTION 8:

IS THERE A DUA OR SOME KIND OF SUPPLICATION THAT WOULD HELP US IN STUDYING AND LEARNING IN UNIVERSITY AND AS WELL AS THE DEEN?

ANSWER_8

-you should mix with good company in the university

-mix with Arab speaking people

-not with English speaking people

Then High above all be Allah, the True King. And be not in haste (O Muhammad SAW) with the Qur'an before its revelation is completed to you, and say: "My Lord! Increase me in knowledge." (Ta-Ha 20:114)

-treat English speaking people like a leper in university

-mix with practicing Muslims

-so that you do not be a dropout

-pious Muslims speak Quranic Arabic fus'ha

-non pious speak broken Arabic

QUESTION 9:

UNTIL WHAT TIME CAN YOU DELAY THE ISHA PRAYER? BECAUSE I HEARD DIFFERENT OPINIONS ABOUT THAT?

ANSWER_9:

-you should pray before midnight

-that is the correct opinion

-as long as fajr hasn't come in, the prayer is valid

The time of ‘Isha

The Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said: “The time for ‘Isha’ lasts until midnight.”

So, the time for ‘Isha’ begins immediately after the time for Maghrib ends (i.e., when the red afterglow disappears from the sky) until midnight.

QUESTION: HOW DO WE CALCULATE WHEN MIDNIGHT IS?

Answer: if you want to calculate when midnight is, then calculate the time between sunset and sunrise then divide it in half; that halfway point is the end of the time for praying ‘Isha’ (and that is midnight). So if the sun sets at 5 p.m., and Fajr begins at 5 a.m., then midnight is 11 p.m. If the sun sets at 5 p.m. and Fajr begins at 6 p.m., then midnight is 11.30 p.m., and so on.