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Waqf Ikhlas publications Endless Bliss Fascicle-4 http://www.hizmetbooks.org If a hafiz is reciting the Qur'an on one side of the mosque and a pious Muslim of the Ahl as- Sunnat Madhhab is preaching on another side, it is better to listen to the preacher. [If the hafiz is a sinner and is reciting the Qur'an melodiously, it is not permissible to listen to him.] It is permissible to scare away bats and pigeons in a mosque and to throw out their nests. Otherwise they will ruin the mosque. They are expelled so that the mosque will remain clean. It is written in Fatawa-i qari-ul-Hidaya and Jawahir-ul fatawa: "It is permissible to kill the birds that spoil a mosque if it is impossible to expel them. Animals that give trouble to people can be killed anywhere." It is not permissible to destroy birds' nests outside of a mosque. It is written in the fatwa of Qadihan (rahmatullahi 'alaih): "If the adhan (azan) is not said in a city or village or neighborhood, the government has to ensure that it is said even by using force." It is written in Fatawa-i Hindiyya: "The adhan is said outside the mosque, or on the minaret. It is sunnat to say it at an elevated place and not to force oneself to make one's voice loud." Hence, it can be easily understood that there is no need to say the adhan or the iqamat through a loud speaker. For the adhan is said in every neighborhood. It is bidat to perform worships with tape recorders, radios and loudspeakers. Bidats are grave sins. 20- SALAH (NAMAZ) IN JAMAAT You step in a mosque with your right foot. When leaving a mosque you step out with your left foot first. It is written in Uyun-ul-basair: "When entering a mosque, you take off your left and then right shoe before entering. Then you step in with your right foot first. You put on your right shoe after [or before] leaving with your left foot first." In explaining the afflictions incurred by the hand and foot, the book Hadiqa says, "As imam-i Nawawi says in his explanation of Muslim, it is mustahab to begin with your right side when doing blessed, honored and pure deeds. You begin with your right when putting on your shoes, trousers, shirt, when cutting or combing your hair, when cutting your moustache, when using a miswak, when cutting your nails, when washing your hands and feet, when entering a mosque, a Muslim's house, a Muslim's room, when going out of a rest room, when giving alms, when eating, and when drinking. When doing the opposite of these, for example, when taking off your shoes, socks, clothes, when going out of a mosque, or a Muslim's house, a Muslim's room, when entering the restroom, when expelling mucus from your nose, when cleaning yourself after relieving nature, it is mustahab to begin with your left. It is tanzihi makruh to do them conversely, because it means omitting the sunnat in hay'at (form)." [To shave the beard in order to follow the local regulations is like this.] Ibni Abidin (rahmatullahi ta'ala 'alaih) says, "There are two types of imam. Let us discuss Imamat-i kubra first. This will be mentioned again in the explanation of baghi (a rebel) on the three hundred and tenth page of the third volume. It is also written on the one hundred and fortythird, two hundred and ninety-fourth, and three hundred and fifty-first pages of the book Al- Hadiqat-un-nadiyya, written by AbdulGhani Nabulusi (rahmatullahi ta'ala 'alaih). The second type of imam is called Imamat-i sugra, which means being an imam to conduct a namaz that is fard. It is sunnat for men in Hanafi and Maliki to perform the fard of the five daily prayers of namaz in jamaat. And it is obligatory (fard) for the prayers of Friday and 'Iyd. It is makruh to perform the supererogatory prayers of namaz in jamaat. In the five daily prayers even one additional person will suffice as a jamaat. A person whose qiraat (recitation of the Qur'an) is beautiful, that is, who knows the letters of the Qur'an and who knows how to read the Qur'an with tajwid, becomes the imam and not a person whose voice is good and who reads the Qur'an melodiously! It is makruh for a sinner to become the imam. It is tahrimi makruh to follow him Page 119 of 181
Waqf Ikhlas publications Endless Bliss Fascicle-4 http://www.hizmetbooks.org even if he is deeply learned. A hadith declares: "A person who performs namaz with a savant who is muttaqi has performed namaz as though he was with the Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam)." It is written on the one hundred and thirty-fifth page of the book Uyun-ul basair: "A person who does not go to the mosque [though he does not have an excuse], but instead makes the jamaat with his wife at home, cannot attain the blessings of the jamaat in the mosque. That is, he cannot get the extra blessings that are peculiar to the mosque. But he gets the blessings of the jamaat, that is, the blessings that are twenty-seven times the number of those received for performing namaz alone. However, we must add that this is so when both of the jamaats fulfill the conditions and sunnats. If the jamaat at home is more acceptable, it is necessary to perform it at home." It is written so on the four hundred and second, the six hundred and thirteenth, and the six hundred and nineteenth pages of Halabi al-Kabir. [As it can be understood, we must not perform namaz behind those imams who do not observe the conditions of namaz properly. Their namaz is not sahih. It is permissible but makruh to perform namaz behind an imam who knows and respects the fards of ablution and namaz though he commits sins, e.g. drinks alcohol, takes interest for the money he has lent, looks at women and girls, and gambles. It is written in the fatwa of Abussuud Effendi that the hadith "Perform namaz behind a sinner as well as behind a pious Muslim!" is meant not for the imams of mosques but for Emirs and governors who conduct Friday prayers, so that they will be followed and obeyed. We must not perform namaz behind those imams who we know are committing sins. We must not follow an imam who does not have the conditions that an imam must have and who reads the Qur'an melodiously. We must go to the mosque of an imam who is devoted to his faith. We must go to the mosque for every namaz, but when meeting with an imam who is sinful, ignorant, la- Madhhabi, or who is a religion reformer, we must not follow him. We must not stop attending the mosque just because we think that there may be such an imam. It is written in the fatwa of Abussuud Effendi, which exists in the library of Molla Murad (in Istanbul) with number 1114: "It is wajib to dismiss an imam who makes a living through haram and who takes interest by lending money. It is fard to know how to read the Qur'an with tajwid. He who does not know the tajwid cannot observe the rules concerning makharij-i Huruf (parts of the mouth, tongue, velum and pharynx where letters and sounds are articulated). The Qur'an al-karim read and the namaz performed by a person who cannot observe the places of the letters in the articulatory organs are not acceptable." [See Endless Bliss, II, chapter 21.] It is every Muslim's duty to strive so that a person who fulfills the conditions for being an imam will become the imam. It is written in the marginal notes of the explanation of Nur-ul-izah: "Being an imam requires fulfilling six conditions." The namaz is not performed behind an imam who is known not to have one of these conditions: 1 - To be a Muslim. He who disbelieves the fact that Abu Bakr Siddiq and 'Umar Faruq were Khalifas or who does not believe in the Miraj or the torment in the grave cannot be an imam unless he has an explanation. 2 - To be at the age of puberty. 3 - To be discreet. A drunk or senile person cannot be an imam. 4 - To be a man. A woman cannot be an imam for men. 5 - To be able to recite at least the Fatiha-i Sharifa and one more ayat correctly. A person who has not memorized one ayat or who cannot recite with tajwid the ayats he has memorized or who recites the ayats melodiously cannot be an imam. Page 120 of 181
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