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Waqf Ikhlas publications Endless Bliss Fascicle-4 http://www.hizmetbooks.org writing or even one letter on it. For it is insulting to use them for any purpose whatsoever or to lay them on the floor. And it is disbelief to lay or use them in order to insult them. It has been said that it is permissible to write them on walls or to hang pieces of writing on walls." Hence, it is understood that it is not permissible to lay prayer rugs with pieces of writings or pictures of the Kaba or mosques on them on the floor in order to pray on them. Nonetheless, it is permissible to hang them on walls for decoration. As it is seen, Islam has prohibited pictures and statues of human beings that serve as instruments to ridicule human beings, that are used for worshipping living things, and which drift youngsters towards fornication and seduction of married people. However, Islam permits pictures of the anatomical parts of living things, of plants, and all kinds of pictures pertaining to physics, chemistry, astronomy and engineering. It has commanded drawing and utilization of pictures that are necessary for knowledge and science. Islam, as always, has classified pictures into two groups: useful and harmful and has commanded use of the useful ones while prohibiting the harmful ones. Then, it is a blind claim and a slander for the enemies of the religion to say, "Muslims say that pictures are prohibited, which is retrogression."] 25 - If the picture of a living thing is drawn on the wall or on pieces of cloth or paper hanging or put on a wall just above the head, in front, or just to the right or left of a person who is performing namaz, it is makruh. Even if not in a living form, a picture of the cross is like the picture of a living thing. For it means to be like Christians. It is makruh to imitate their evil practices, even if not in order to be like them, or to imitate their unharmful habits with the intention of resembling them. [In fact, it is written in the books Targhib-us-salat and Nisab-ulahbar that it is makruh to perform namaz at such places as well as places where people are drinking alcohol, gambling or playing musical instruments, and prayers said at these places will not be accepted. Apparatuses through which musical instruments are heard and pictures that are haram to look at are watched are like musical instruments.] If the picture of a living or lifeless thing is on something upon which a person is standing, sitting or leaning, his namaz does not become makruh. If the picture is on the walls behind the person performing namaz or on the ceiling it is khafif (light) makruh. It is not makruh to perform namaz on prayer rugs or mats possessing pictures of living things on the parts other than where prostration is made, since laying them on the floor means belittling them (Durar). [Accordingly, it is not permissible to lay the carpets with pictures of the Kaba, mosques or pieces of holy writing on the ground.] If the picture is under the foot of the person performing namaz, on the place where he is sitting, on his body or in his hand, it is makruh. [Hence it is understood that pictures in one's pocket do not make one's namaz makruh.] But a picture hanging on one's wrist is makruh. For it prevents one from placing one's hands as prescribed by the sunnat. If the picture on a coin or ring or on any part of a person is extremely small, that is, if when it is put on the floor, the person standing cannot make out its limbs, his namaz does not become makruh. When covered, it is not makruh if it is big, either. If the head of the living thing has been cut off, or if its face, chest or belly has been erased or covered with something, the namaz does not become makruh. With pictures of lifeless things, such as trees or sceneries, no matter where they are, namaz does not become makruh. For small or headless pictures or pictures of lifeless things have never been worshipped. There were those who worshipped the sun, the moon, the stars, green trees, but they worshipped those things themselves. They did not worship their pictures. It is also makruh to perform namaz towards these things. Page 109 of 181
Waqf Ikhlas publications Endless Bliss Fascicle-4 http://www.hizmetbooks.org Angels of compassion do not enter a house where there is a big picture of a living thing placed at a respected place, a dog, or a person who is junub. But the angles of haphaza leave a person only during sexual intercourse and when he goes into the restroom. The two angels called Kiraman katibin, who are on a person's shoulders and who write down his good and bad deeds, and those angels who protect a person against genies are called Angels of Haphaza. Allahu ta'ala informs the angels of what a person does in the restroom, and the angels write down his actions when he comes out of the restroom. The angels do not write on anything or in letters. As we gather information in our mind and memory, so they gather a person's actions at some place. Today there are various ways of writing, such as the recording of voices on an apparatus that we call a tape recorder or on sound films. In the heavens there are angels writing with pens (tools) that are unknown to us. For disbelievers, only their evil deeds are written down. There are genies who pester everyone while angels protect us against them. It is permissible according to Imam-i Abu Yusuf to buy dolls for children to play with. 26 - It is tanzihi makruh to count ayats, or tasbihs with the hand during namaz. It is permissible to count them through the heart or by moving the fingers. Outside of namaz it is permissible to count them with fingers or to use beads. Once Rasulullah saw a woman counting the tasbihs with seeds and did not forbid her. It is makruh to use beads for ostentation. It does not nullify namaz, nor is it makruh, to kill a serpent or a scorpion that is approaching you and may sting you. It is mustahab to kill it with your left shoe. A white snake that crawls straight without curling is a genie. You must not kill him if he does not harm you. But it is permissible to kill him, too. For genies promised Rasulullah (sall- Allahu 'alaihi wa sallam) that they would not enter Muslims' homes. Entering a home, they have gone back on their word. First you should warn him by saying "Irji' bi-iznillah." Then, if he will not go away, you should kill him. But you cannot warn him if you are performing namaz. Not killing a genie disguised as a snake immediately is not intended to respect them but, to prevent their harm. 27 - It is not makruh to perform namaz against the backs of sitting or standing people, even if they are talking. It is makruh to perform it against a person's face or against the backs of people who are talking loudly. 28 - It is not makruh to perform namaz against the Qur'an, a sword, a candle, a candle- lamp, any lamp, flames, against instruments of war such as pistols, or against a person who is lying asleep. For those have never been worshipped. Magians worship fire, not flames. But it is makruh to perform it against a fire with flames, too. 29 - It is tahrimi makruh to perform namaz by wrapping yourself in a towel from head to foot. 30 - It is tahrimi makruh to perform namaz with the top of your head bare by winding a turban round your head. 31 - It is tahrimi makruh to perform namaz by covering your mouth and nose. Magians worship in that manner. [You must not perform namaz with a mask, gloves, or spectacles that prevent your forehead from touching the floor. Unless there is a darurat you must not perform namaz with anything that prevents your forehead, nose or hands from touching the floor, that is, from doing any fard or sunnat. There is no necessity for wearing such things during namaz, even for women]. 32 - It is makruh to throw phlegm from the throat without a strong necessity. If blood formed in the mouth is not a mouthful, neither its formation nor swallowing nullifies your ablution or namaz. So is the case with vomiting. [Halabi al-Kabir and Hindiyya]. 33 - Amal-i qalil, that is, moving one hand once or twice, is makruh. [See the fifteenth of things that nullify namaz!] It is permissible to kill a louse of flea with amal-i qalil, but it is makruh to Page 110 of 181
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