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(radiallahu anhuma) for some religious reason becomes a bidat holder. A person who says
mubah (permissible) about a haram does not become a kafir, if he says so sincerely depending on
an ayat or a hadith. If he says so capriciously without depending on Nass (ayats and hadiths with
clear meaning), he becomes a kafir. It is bidat to say that electing Abu Bakr and 'Umar for the
caliphate was unjust. But it is an act of disbelief to say that they had no rights to become
Khalifas.
A fatwa has been given that if a person who fulfills the conditions for being an imam does the
duty of an imam for a wage or salary it is permissible to perform namaz behind him. It is written
at the end of Halabi al-kabir that it is necessary to re-perform the namaz performed behind the
imam who mispronounces or recites melodiously or performed before its time. [One must do
one's best that an imam who has the belief of the Ahl as- Sunnat be appointed to the office. This
will prevent one who does not fulfill the conditions for being an imam and who is known to be a
la-Madhhabi or a religion reformer from getting that position.]
It is tahrimi makruh for the imam to say the qiraat and the tasbihs beyond the measure prescribed
by the sunnat when conducting the fard namaz, even if the jamaat want him to do so. It is tahrimi
makruh for a woman to become the imam and lead the namaz for women. When there are no
men it is not makruh for them to perform the namaz of janaza in jamaat. For if they perform it
individually, the woman who performs it first will have performed the fard, and the ones who
perform it later will have performed a supererogatory prayer. And it is makruh to perform the
namaz of janaza as a supererogatory prayer. It is fard to perform the namaz of janaza at least
once. If a woman becomes the imam for men in the namaz of janaza, the men must not perform
it again. This is because only the woman's namaz has been accepted and the fard has been
completed by one person. If a woman becomes the imam for women, she stands in the middle of
the first line. It is sinful for her to stand in front.
At home a man can be the imam for women who are his mahram. He cannot be the imam for
women who are namahram to him. For it would be halwat. If there is another man or the imam's
mahram among the jamaat, the namahram women can join the jamaat. As in halwat, it is makruh
for those mahram relatives who are related to the imam through milk (having been breastfed by
the same mother) or through nikah to be young. Halwat does not occur in a mosque. A woman
stands behind the imam, not by his side. If there is a man, the woman stands behind the man and
performs namaz with the imam.
In Masjid al-Haram, it is best for the imam to stand in the Maqam-i Ibrahim. And, of course, you
should not walk to the front lines lest you disturb the jamaat. (As all the jamaat stand up) to
begin the fard, you can move to a vacant space in the front line. In the namaz of janaza the back
lines are more blessed than the front lines. A person who finds the imam making the ruku' stands
in the last line lest he will miss the rakat. He should not walk to the front lines. If there is no
place in the last line he must not stand alone even if he will miss the rakat. If there is an empty
place in the first line and if there is no space available in the second line, you can make your way
through the second line in order to reach the first line. In this case, it is not sinful to pass in front
of the jamaat, that is, those who are performing namaz in the back.
If a man performing namaz in jamaat remains as long as one rukn in the same line with a woman
who is following the same imam and if there is not a thick curtain or a pole more than one inch
thick or an open space wide enough to accommodate one person between them, the man's namaz
becomes nullified. When a woman performs namaz in a line, only the namaz of the three men
who are next to her or right behind her becomes nullified. If the one behind her is farther than
nine feet away, his namaz does not become nullified. It is makruh for a man and a woman who
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