psyah
February 4, 2012, 8:05am
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Re: Nailpolish and salat
Actually, there are hadith that tells of Muslims praying during the course of war (people praying in small group while others fighting). What I wrote is that, such situation must have arrived in war when people had to do wadu with clotted blood on hand that they could not remove (for whatever reason), but because Muslims at that time were not fussy as present day ‘so-called guardian of Islam’ would want, they did not even bothered to mention such things taking it as granted, and that is why we do not have something in writing … just like we do not have in writing that Sahabis use to do wadu with cold water, warm water or hot water.
Such silly thoughts can only come in corrupted brain of our ‘so-called present day guardians of Islam’. Who knows, in future we might get fatwa that Muslims can only do wadu with water that is 75 degree Fahrenheit hot plus minus 10 degree, else wadu would become invalid. After that, people would come on forums and would ask if their wadu was valid or invalid because they did wadu with water that was 50 degree Fahrenheit cold.
Peace Sa1eem
What you see as fussy … the Sahabah saw as being particular … It appears you don’t know much about how particular they really were … To you it is the ulema of today who are being particular - which is not true - the ulema of today make so many concessions for us lay people.
Here read this:
Hadhrat Ali (RA) used to remove his hair completely. He himself narrates that the Holy Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said: “Impurity (*Janabat) exists beneath every strand of hair.” (*Mishkat, P48) Following this Hadith he states: “**The one who overlooks an area equivalent to a single strand of hair whilst performing ***Ghusal-Janabat (bathing after ceremonial impurity) will be dealt like this and like that in hell .” (A reference to austere punitive measures). Upon narrating this, he states: “Owing to the declaration of such ominous phrases, I chose to create enmity with my head i.e. remove all my hair.”
****http://www.islamic-vision.com/articles/158/1/Masail-of-the-Hairs/Page1.html
According to this reference Sayydina Ali (RA) shaved his head so he would not leave any part under the hair dry for ghusl.