Nailpolish and salat

[KaafHaaYaaAynSaad]

Re: Nailpolish and salat

:@saleem

Salamu alaikum

People spend their lives learning the deen, and here you're saying you have "enough" knowledge of the deen. I asked, can you read and comprehend Quranic Arabic? That should be the prerequisite for any student of knowledge. Or do you just read English translations? How many years have you studied Islam under a scholar?

Secondly, under what basis are you saying "most have their own biases." Do you really think you are so knowledgeable that you can go accusing MOST scholars of this Ummah to have biases? Really?

Brother, Quran has two types of ayats. One is called Muhkamaat - which is clear, and established rulings. Other is called Mutashabihaat - which has ambiguity. That's in the Quran itself. Yes, clear cut ayahs are to be taken as literally, but you cannot just pick up the Quran and say I understand it, that too in English.

Even if one group calls them deviant, that doesn't give you any right to dismiss them in this manner. SubhanAllah. You should be grateful that it's because of these scholars that the deen has reached us today.

As for answerable to Allah, a mujtahid Imam can be wrong and he will not be punished for it. So, it's not wrong to follow them because he is basing his rulings with proper knowledge of the deen like laymen like me and you, who have no clue of deriving rulings from Quran and Sunnah.

If you want to learn the basics, then yeah, you might learn it on your own from reading here and there. But, when you start making ijtihaad, then you're not correct in that. You have no legal right to make rulings and say things about the book of Allah that you don't really have the knowledge of.

The scholars (and please stop saying so-called), are learned men who have the understanding of the Quran that we regular laymen do not possess. If it wasn't for that, then what would be the difference between you and a scholar?

My friend, every little thing is not present in the Quran. The hadiths supplement the Quran. So, how can you understand the Quran when you have not the proper knowledge of the hadiths? Do you think you know all the abrogations in the Quran? The context of revelation? If the hadiths apply to one person or to all? If the hadith is weak? If the chain of narrator is not reliable?

Most likely, you just read from the internet or a book and start following i t. That's blind following, because you have no knowledge of the deen but you follow your desire. Learn the deen from scholars, InshaAllah. May Allah save us all from misguidance.

[KaafHaaYaaAynSaad]

Re: Nailpolish and salat

so is it alright if i never read the quran translation myself or hadith...........since i am incapable of understanding it............... lets do away with them............since the scholar will tell me the correct thing............

and when i stand on the judgement day.........i can just say "the molvi told me to do it....ask him"........

It's an obligation on us to learn fiqh and aqeedah. So, we all should make an effort to properly learn the deen from scholars.

[FairysAngel]

Re: Nailpolish and salat

@Sa1eem

FairysAngel: You are right, there is no use using nail polish if one can avoid. Allah has already given such a beautiful colour to nails, why give them artificial colours? But then, people are different, and argument is not about merit of nail polish, but argument is about nail polish and wadu.

Please read the ayah on wadu and think.

Quran 5:6 ... O ye who believe! when ye prepare for prayer, wash your faces, and your hands (and arms) to the elbows; Rub your heads (withwater); and (wash) your feet to the ankles. If ye are in a state of ceremonial impurity, bathe your whole body. But if ye are ill, or on a journey, or one of you cometh from offices of nature, or ye have been in contact with women, and ye find no water, then take for yourselves clean sand or earth, and rub therewith your faces and hands, Allah doth not wish to place you in a difficulty, but to make you clean, and to complete his favour to you, that ye may be grateful.

In Quran when talking about wadu (ayah 5:6 above), Allah clearly says that he does not want to place any difficulty on anyone rather want a person to get clean. Further, Allah tells that if one could not find water then one can rub sand or earth over face and hands. So, it is obvious that from wadu Allah is not looking for physical cleanliness as one cannot become physically clean by rubbing sand or earth on face and hands. Since it is not physical cleanliness that wadu gives, it does not matter how hard you work in washing yourself, neither there is any importance of water in wadu.

Apart of physical cleanliness, the other cleanliness is spiritual cleanliness. So, what Allah is looking for is inner (spiritual) cleanliness in wadu, that comes from intention. Thus, as long as there is intention for wadu, irregularities are unimportant because intention is beyond physical irregularities.

Thus, when a person intends to do wadu and act on it as best as he could without causing any difficulty for himself (as Allah says in ayah 5:6 that he do not want to place anyone in any difficulty), his intention cleans him internally, that is, give him spiritual cleanliness. Action associated to wadu only confirms his intention.

Anyhow, you should remember that Allah is Gafoor who is most forgiving and hides faults. So, to even think that Allah is not forgiving is denying that he is Gafoor, and that is sin.

Okay. I am agree with this. Moreover, there is no mention of using nailpolish in this verse or in Qur'an ofcours in hadith too, nor use of it nailpolish at that time. Isn't it means that we shouldn't use nailpolish at all. :)

@Sa1eem

Prayer at battlefield is called salaat-ul-Khauf, because people perform their prayer in state of khauf (fear). In this situation, prayer is reduced to 2 rikah. People pray in groups. For instance, a group prays while another group watch people praying, and others fight. With time, all complete their prayers. I am quoting verse in Quran, but if you are looking for relevant hadith, you can find them in vol 5 of Bukhari titled ‘Salaat-ul-Khauf’.

Quran 4:102-103 When ye travel through the earth, there is no blame on you if ye shorten your prayers, for fear the Unbelievers May attack you: For the Unbelievers are unto you open enemies. When thou (O Messenger) art with them, and standest to lead them in prayer, Let one party of them stand up (in prayer) with thee, Taking their arms with them: When they finish their prostrations, let them Take their position in the rear. And let the other party come up which hath not yet prayed - and let them pray with thee, Taking all precaution, and bearing arms: the Unbelievers wish, if ye were negligent of your arms and your baggage, to assault you in a single rush. But there is no blame on you if ye put away your arms because of the inconvenience of rain or because ye are ill; but take (every) precaution for yourselves. For the Unbelievers Allah hath prepared a humiliating punishment.

I do not know how true above story could be, as to me such stories looks mostly concocted (and they are available in abundance). Anyhow, it is sin to harm oneself intentionally (what one could do by not doing anything to get cured),and worse sin is to have no trust on Allah and his mercy (it is denial that Allah is Gafoor and Rauf).

Allah has made Islam so easy that if a person is sick on bed, he can pray on bed lying. If a person is travelling, he can pray on horse back or car. If a person is old and weak he can pray sitting on floor or chair. If a person is very weak on bed, he can pray using symbolic signs. If a person misses his prayer then he can pray qiza. ... Shows, Allah is trying to make Salaat easy and convenient to perform, but some people are trying their hard to make it as difficult and inconvenient for themselves and also for others.

For instance, if someone was not taking medicine to cure his eyes just because it would affect his sajdah on floor than it does not show that the person was obedient to Allah but shows that the person was paranoid about Allah’s mercy and leaves (Allahs allowance to pray conveniently).

If I see such person who claims he is not taking eye medicine because his Sajdah would get affected in Namaaz, my first question to him would be that what he want to prove from such behaviour?

Because to me, such person seems to prove (or give impression) with his action that Allah is merciless and hungry of his salaat without thinking about his physical state, or that Allah is not Gafoor and Rauf.

Actually I was looking for the answer of below that when a 'mujahid' is covered with his own blood, how that mujahid can perform wudu. You and I both knows that if blood of own comes out, that also breaks the wudu.

@Sa1eem

As for prophet (SAW) time, even though it is not mentioned as probably people took it for ‘granted’, I am sure that during war (Jihad) if hands of a 'mujahid' ever got covered with own or opponent’s blood that got clotted, and it is not easy to remove them off with water available in short supply, 'mujahid' must be doing wadu without hands/face 100 percent clean of stuck clotted blood (even though blood is na-paak). [As far as I know, clotted blood is water proof].

Hands covered with bloods was not intentionally done by 'mujahid' neither 'mujahid' ever used nailpolish. Your explanation do not serve your point at all. :)