Salaam all
How many of you guys pray with your shoes on? Any general views about this topic?
I know it is frowned on in Pakistan but in the UK, many people from arab/african backgrounds do it (much to the annoyance of the paks!)
N
As long as the shoes don't have any "nijasat" on them, its permitted.
w'salam
hmmm
i saw my Arab friends doing this
infact i even saw them doing wuzu with socks on and just kinda wiping their socks with wet hands
though i usually try to avoid it coz i am not really sure
It is allowed as long as shoes don’t have any “najaasat” as Faisal said it.
As for doing a “massah” of the socks during the wudhoo instead of washing the feet, there is a slight difference of opinion among the school of thoughts. Particularly, according to Imam Abu Hanifa :rehm:, it is only allowed for the leather socks (taking the reference from the life-time of the Prophet:saw: as the only socks people mostly used to wear were of leather.). However, others generlize it to ‘any’ socks based on same rules. Wallah-O-Alam.
At the end since this matter required an ijtehaad, IMO, it should not matter, but whatever you do, stick to that with the intention that whatever you are doing is for the sake of ALLAH :swt:, for according to narrations, any ijtehaad done with pure intentions to please ALLAH and after taking reference from Quran and Hadeeth, ends up awarding you aj’r even if there is a difference of opinion. Dangerous is the difference of opinions among “Mohkamaat.”
Thanks for this - do you have any idea why it is considered so bad in pakistan? I have even heard a pakistani say it was completely forbidden and just out of the question hence my post.
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Thanks for this - do you have any idea why it is considered so bad in pakistan? I have even heard a pakistani say it was completely forbidden and just out of the question hence my post.
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Normaly with the road coditions in pakistan it is very difficult to keep ur shoes clean from nijsat ..and not allowing shoes is helpfll in keeping the mosque clean ..but praying namaz with shoes on is normally practised in pakistan by mujahideen, tablighee jamaat and ulema who go to northern areas......so it is not that uncommon in pakistan ...u just dont see it in cities.....
wasalam
I thought praying with shoes on was permissable during situations such as a war or something…hmmmm 
I didn't know we could pray with our shoes on.
i,m not sure about the najasat bit on the shoes,,,
my own interpretation is,,, if ur in wudu, u have clean socks... and ur wearing shoes.... u can just pray.. how can u not have najasat on the sole of the shoe? theres never a guarantee....
for example if ur in a garden....i would just pick a clean spot n pray with my shoes on... as long as ur feet are clean and the socks... i,d count the inner sole of the shoe as the pak place i,m standing .. sorta like a barrier between the outer sole and the feet.
but i,m not really sure what the official verdict is. I find it perfectly acceptable to pray with the whoes on for any reason, which could be,, gettin late,, cant be bothered taking shoes off cos at work or any other reason... stand on the ground and not on the ja e namaz and spread the jae namaz in front of u n pray like normal.
Please correct me if i,m wrong here... thanx.
back then, in times of the Prophet (saw), the mosques were not tiled and carpeted....
more often than not, the prayers were performed on either hot sand or wet mud, and hence it was more preferrable to pray with shoes on....
but if we took our shoes on the clean and well-carpeted mosques, it is definitely not the right thing to do....
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Normaly with the road coditions in pakistan it is very difficult to keep ur shoes clean from nijsat ..and not allowing shoes is helpfll in keeping the mosque clean
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Just to clarify I meant praying with shoes in a place other than a mosque. With most mosques being carpeted these days, it would be wrong to pray with shoes in them (in my opinion).
N
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Please correct me if i,m wrong here... thanx.
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I am not correcting you because I don't think you are necessarily wrong, but I will like to comment on "i,d count the inner sole of the shoe as the pak place i,m standing .. sorta like a barrier between the outer sole and the feet".
I think its a bit narrow. If your trouser, for example, on the outside got splashed with some pee you won't consider it paak, even if your inner underwear was never soiled. Just an example. Same with shoes. If a dog has pooped on your shoes, just because the inner sole is clean, you still have a problem.
I think, it has more to do with what you know. If you know that there is no dog poop or urine or other blantant najis things on your shoes, you are ok. Ofcourse, walking on the streets you can't guarantee 100%. If you shoes look clean and you are on a ground or something, you can pray with the shoes on.
Doing wudhu with shoes on is a whole separate discussion. I don't think its ok. The only exemption is leather inner-sole shoes that some people wear. I won't go into that. Unless there is a real problem taking off shoes, I would just do it the right way.