The Conditions, Pillars & Requirements of the Prayer

The Pillars of the Prayer are Fourteen.

The main points covered in this lesson:

Recap on last lesson and continuation:
The Fourth Pillar: The Bowing - Ar- Ruku’u
The Fifth Pillar: Rising from the bowing position.
The Sixth Pillar: Prostrating upon the seven limbs.
The Seventh Pillar: Sitting back up from prostration.
The Eighth Pillar: Sitting between the two prostrations.
The Ninth Pillar: Being in a state of Tranquility during all the acts of prayer.

– The hadīth of the Prophet ﷺ ‘I was ordered to prostrate in the seven limbs.’
‎– الاعتدال - There are two risings, one is from the bowing position where one stands after bowing and the other is the rising from prostration where one remains sitting. Both times refers to raising back up until the backbone is straight.
– If الاعتدال - the rising from Ar- Ruku’u and As-Sajdah is not done correctly then the prayer will be invalid.
– Refer to the Hadīth of the man that prayed badly. The Prophet ﷺ explained and taught the man how to pray and then said ‘Go back and pray for you have not prayed’. 
– A further narration of the Prophet ﷺ explaining the الاعتدال and its necessity in order for a person’s prayer to be valid.
– The Hanafi Madhab does not hold الاعتدال to be a pillar, which opposes the clear texts.
– The Ninth Pillar: Being in a state of Tranquility during all the acts of prayer.
– The legislative meaning of التطمئن - Tranquility.
– Explanation of Shaikh Muhammad Āmān Al-Jami of the Hadīth of the man that prayed badly.

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The Jamaa'ah is that which conforms to the truth - Shaykh Uways at-Taweel

- The original text of the Hadith
- Importance of enjoining the good and forbidding the evil and use the tongue in good.
- Evidence from the Qur'an that those upon the truth are small in number
- Examples from the prophets such as Nuh and Ibrahim who had few followers
- Who are the Jamaa'ah?
- Examples from the Salaf
- The importance of implementation of the Salafi Dawah
- Advice from Imaam ibn Qayyim and Imaam Ibn Baaz

Recorded at the Islam is Sunnah Conference at the Salafi Centre of Manchester June 2025

The Jamaa'ah is that which conforms to the truth - Uways at-Taweel | Manchester

 • Started with the virtues of ʿAbdullāh Ibn Masʿūd (رضي الله عنه)
 • Covered the narration of Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī and Ibn Masʿūd: — “How many people intend good but never reach it”
 • Highlighted evidence from the Qur’ān and Sunnah showing the completeness of the religion — no need for additions  “This day I have perfected for you your religion…” (Sūrah al-Mā’idah 5:3)’
  • Virtues of the Khulafā’ al-Rāshidīn (the four rightly guided caliphs)
 • Importance of clinging to the understanding of the Salaf al-Ṣāliḥīn
 • Tafsīr Ibn Kathīr on the verse: —  “This is My straight path, so follow it” (al-Anʿām 6:153)
 • Hadith of the 73 sects and its variations and its different chains - Linked with Ibn Masʿūd’s narration: “The Jamāʿah is what conforms with the truth, even if you are alone”
• Danger of bid'ah (innovation) and how it is more severe than committing major sins - to the exent that the Prophet ﷺ warned against it even before it appeared.
• The importance of Tawheed and the precise wording found in the sunnah and the Quran.  Example, Surah Maryam ayah 65
 "Lord of the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them, so worship Him (Alone) and be constant and patient in His worship. Do you know of any who is similar to Him?" 
• How this verse beautifully encompasses all three categories of Tawḥīd: 
 1. Tawḥīd al-Rubūbiyyah – “Lord of the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them…”
 2. Tawḥīd al-Ulūhiyyah – “so worship Him (Alone)…”
 3. Tawḥīd al-Asmā’ wa’l-Ṣifāt – “Do you know of any who is similar to Him?” (denial of likeness to His names or attributes)
• Shaykh ʿAbdullāh Lahmāmī (ḥafiẓahullāh) concluded the lesson by mentioning 20 characteristics that distinguish the people of Sunnah from the groups of misguidance.


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Lesson 1 - Sareeh al-Sunnah | Shaykh Uways at-Taweel

[01/08/2025] Part Two - Al-‘Allāmah Rabee’ Al-Madkhali on the Methodology of Giving Da’wah with Wisdom & Understanding.

- The necessity of implementing noble manners when calling to Allāh, and the result of doing so.
- A warning against causing people to flee from this da’wah.
- The accusations of those with destructive extremism. 
- The manner in which one should call to Allāh. 
- An affair that will make da’wah easier when calling the ignorant and Ahlul-Bid’ah. 
- Things the caller should refrain from at the beginning of his da’wah. 
- Examples of how to give da’wah to different groups from Ahlul-Bid’ah. 
- Shaykh Rabī’s visit to Sudan in 1392. 
- Points of advice given to the Shaykh (رحمه الله), which he accepted and implemented when giving da’wah to the people of Sudan. 
- Caution against beginning one’s da’wah with reviling the shaykh of the ignorant people. 
- The Messenger’s ﷺ instruction to Mu’ādh b. Jabal and Abū Mūsā al-Ash’arī (رضى الله عنهما) when he sent them to Yemen. 
- The necessity of the caller first practicing what he is calling the people to.
- ‘Abdullāh b. Salām’s (رضى الله عنه) thoughts after his first encounter with the Prophet ﷺ.
- The people’s joyful reception of Shaykh Rabī’s da’wah. 
- The conspiring of the heads of Sūfiyyah when they saw that the Shaykh’s da’wah was having an effect upon the people.
- Corrupt arguments by one of the heads of Sūfiyyah trying to justify the permissibility of istighāthah and other acts of worship to other than Allāh. 
- Shaykh Rabī’s address to the people after this man presented his falsehood. 
- The Sūfī’s reviling and swearing at the Shaykh (رحمه الله), and how he (Shaykh Rabī’) responded to him. 
- How the people viewed what took place between Shaykh Rabī’ and the Sūfī.
- The goal when giving da’wah. 

Questions:
1. What is your advice to an adult who looks around during the salāh?
2. How does one go about giving da’wah to those who blindly follow the madhhabs and other shaykhs, and is blind following permissible at any stage?
3. If a family member (uncle or auntie) holds beliefs like voting is kufr without restrictions and praying in masjids such as this one may invalidate their prayer, are they to be described as Ashābul-Bid’ah if the matters are clarified to them with precision and with the speech of the scholars?
4. What is the ruling of the one who is reading from the mushaf in the salāh and those who put their hands on one side covering their heart instead of placing it across the chest?
5. What is your advice to a young sister whose father would prefer for her to get married to someone in the family and she herself wants to get married to someone upon Salafiyyah? It is very difficult to reason with the father.
6. From my brothers is one who has stopped praying Fajr and he has started taking from the beard and has taken on western ideas such as the ‘law of attraction’. This morning other siblings followed him in missing the Fajr prayer despite me severely admonishing him in front of them with āyāt and hadīth. 
7. Question regarding the ruling of qaza’. 


Part 2 Al-‘Allāmah Rabee’ on the Methodology of Giving Da’wah By Abu Khadeejah

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