A Defective Key

[Submission_To_Peace]

Suppose, you are given a key to open a lock. What would happen if the key is damaged or half of it is missing? Would the lock open? No. What if you are trying to insert the key upside down? The lock will still remain closed.

Similarly, salat (namaz) is the key to Paradise. In order to open the doors of Paradise, we must make our salat proper. If our salat is totally opposite to the ways of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), then it is as if we are trying to put the key upside down. And if we don’t have concentration and devotion in salat, then it is as if we are planning to use a damaged key to open a very secured lock. Finally, if we do not complete our prayers with all the necessary actions, then it is the same as using a key which is missing parts or half broken.

Please share with us the common mistakes that people usually make in namaz. I would like to share after few posts.

[LP]

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Gazing here & there during prayer.**

We are commanded to lower our gaze, and look at the point at which the head rests during sujood. The Prophet (SAW) warned: “Let those who raise their gaze up during prayer stop doing so, or else their sights would not return to them. *.” (Muslim)

Resting only the tip of the head on the floor during sujood.

The Prophet (SAW) said: “I am commanded to prostrate on seven bones the forehead and the nose, the two hands [palms], the two knees, and the two feet.” (Sahih Muslim)

**Hasty performance of prayer **.

The Messenger of Allah (SAW) saw a man who did not complete his rukoo’ [bowing], and made a very short sujood [prostration]; he (SAW) said: “If this man dies while praying in this manner, he would die upholding a religion other than the religion of Muhammad.” Abu Hurairah (RA) said: “My beloved friend, Muhammad (SAW) forbade me to perform postures of prayer copying the picking of a rooster; (signifying fast performance of prayer), moving eyes around like a fox and the sitting like monkeys ( i.e. to sit on thighs).” (Imam Ahmad & at-Tayalisi) The Messenger of Allah (SAW) said: " The worst thief is the one who steals from his own prayer." People asked, ‘Messenger of Allah! How could one steal from his own prayer?’ He (SAW) said: “By not completing its rukoo’ and sujood.” (At Tabarani & al-Hakim). To complete rukoo’ is to stay in that posture long enough to recite ‘Subhana rabbiyal Adtheem’ three times, SLOWLY, and ‘Subhana rabbiyal-a’ala’ three times, SLOWLY, in sujood. He (SAW) also announced: “He who does not complete his rukoo’ and sujood, his prayer is void .” (Abu Dawood & others)

**Crossing in front of a praying person. **

The Messenger of Allah (SAW) warned: “Were the one who crosses in front of a praying person to know the consequences of doing so, he would have waited for *forty better than to cross in front of him.” (Sahih Bukhari and Muslim).

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[Submission_To_Peace]

Reciting Surat al-Fatiha fast without pausing after each verse

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The Prophet (SAW) used to pause after each verse of this surah. **(Abu Dawood)

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Sticking the arms to the sides of the body, in rukoo’ or sujood, and sticking the belly to the thighs in sujood.**

The Messenger of Allah (SAW) said:** ‘Let not one of you support himself on his forearms (in sujood) like the dog. Let him rest on his palms and keep his elbows away from his body.’ (Sahih Muslim). The Messenger of Allah (SAW) used to keep his arms away from his body during rukoo’ and sujood that the whiteness of his armpits could be seen (Sahih Muslim). **

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[fazeelat]

Re: A Defective Key

ur question reminds me my two fav shairs..

main jo ser-ba sajdaa hua kabhi, to zamee'n sey aany lagi sadaa
tera dil to hey sanam aashnaa, tujhy kiya milly ga namazz mey???

masjid to bana dii shab bhar mey, ima'n kee hararrat wallo'n ny
munn(heart)apna purana paapee tha, barso'n mey namazi bun na sakaa.