When Do You Stand for Salah?
Standing for Prayer and Ritual Bathing: Sunnah Guidelines and Obligatory Conditions
Summary
Sh. Ali Mashhour discusses two main topics in this lecture. First, he addresses the Islamic ruling on standing for prayer, explaining that according to the Sunnah and scholarly consensus, congregants should not stand in rows or prepare for salah until the imam is present and the iqamah is called. He emphasizes that the imam has authority over when salah begins, and standing prematurely contradicts the Sunnah and may distract from pre-salah supplications. Second, Sh. Ali Mashhour covers the conditions requiring ritual bathing (ghusl), specifically focusing on janabah (sexual impurity). He explains that janabah occurs after sexual climax resulting in the expulsion of semen or sexual secretions, whether occurring while awake or asleep. He discusses the example of Umm Sulaym and her son Anas ibn Malik, emphasizing the importance of righteous women in household life, before concluding with the ruling on wet dreams for both men and women, clarifying that ghusl is obligatory only if physical evidence of sexual secretions is present.
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In Muslim, the prophet sallall.aii wasallam instructed the companions that even if the forah is called, do not stand for salah until you see me that I have come out into the masid. So the prophet sallall.aii Wasam prohibited the companions from standing and preparing their rose before the before the imam comes out. Now we have our salah timed which means at a particular time the is called at a particular time the imam is present. However, in the form of the scholars agree that standing for salah and standing in the row for prayer should never happen before the differ on which part of the. So for instance in the mab of it is that a person stands at in the imal the people stand at used to stand at but all agree that it is incorrect to stand for the prayer and make a row before the is called before the imam comes out for a number of reasons but one of those reasons is so that it is does not distract and deter from the worship that should be taking place before the what is the worship that should be taking place before the dua is dua the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam tells us that between and there is a dua that Allah will answer. Another thing is if the imam has something that occurs let's say I'm here we all stand up for salah the is called and then I remember I don't have to wudoo I have to make wudoo this happens this happened to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam as a matter of fact it happened that he forgot he had to make what is the sunnah is the sunnah take my place I don't want to keep people no the sunnah is wait. He went and bathed and came back. And so for this reason, it is incorrect. It is a mistake to stand for salah and to begin making rows before the is called before the im is present because the im dictates when the salah takes place not the this is why the scholars say the is to the discretion of the he's in charge of that but the that is always to the discretion of the im salah doesn't start until the imam is present and so this is an important thing we here have a big responsibility what is our responsibility that collectively we don't do anything officially that is not the sunnah somebody walks in and sees they say that's a good idea we should try that over in our masid not knowing that this is not the sunnah, this is against the sunnah. We never want to adopt anything officially without it being something from the prophet sallall.aii wasallam's sunnah. So we wait until the is called to stand for salah. Continuing.
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In the chapters of the chapters of bathing. And when a person is obligated to bathe, what states of being or what occasions make bathing an obligation? Not just make bathing a time something that is ideal. We're speaking about obligatory. What is binding? The author here mentions five instances. Five instances in which it is obligatory. It is binding upon a person to bathe. Now the first of those is el janaba. El janaba is a state of sexual impurity. And we mentioned that el janaza el janaza el janaba is after there is a sexual climax that results in the expulsion of semen or sexual secretions. This is what we call el janeneva and it could happen to a person while they are asleep. It could happen to a person while they are awake. And the prophet sallall.aii alaihi wasallam mentions that El Janab is the first and most prominent the mo the first and the most prominent and the principle state of being that demands that a person or requires that a person make that a person bathe. Now what is the bare minimum of? This is something that we will discuss inshallah in the next chapter when we discuss the description of first we're going to discuss when is obligatory and then we follow that up with what the bare minimum or what the pillars of are. And so the author mentions janaba janab as the prophet sallall.ai Wasallam says.
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She is the the mother of Malik and is one of the most prominent u women of the companions. When the prophet sallall.aii wasallam arrived at Medina, she met him at Wad is the area in Medina that the prophet sallall.aii wasallam arrived at. She met him there with an entourage, a group of the Muslim that were waiting for him. Every day they would go out and wait for him there until the sun got high. And when he finally arrived, she had a little boy with her, 10-year-old boy. And as he was being welcomed in and ushered in, she came to him and she said, "This is Enis. This is my son. Please take him as a servant for you. Take him in as your servant." And so the prophet sallallah.aii wasallam accepted. And so Annis continued to be his servant. What does that mean? His servant. He'd get his water. He bring his shoes. He would do any odds or ends that the prophet sallall.aii wasallam needed etc. And so, and because he was a little boy, but he was a very smart young young man, he was able to be in the more intimate aspects of the prophet's life. Sallallahu alaihi wasallam because he was still under the age of puberty at the beginning, he was able to come into his houses and talk to his wives and witness a lot of things that older companions were unable to do. And so this is just one of her hassat. Another of her hassat is that the great companion Abu Tala which would be Anisb Malik's stepfather because Malik the father of Annis. It's a difference of opinion as to what occurred with him. Some say he passed away. Others say he died as a disbeliever. Others say that he became Muslim. And all of those are inauthentic narrations, but he was not around. And so Abu Talha was an ibn Malik's stepfather, but he wanted to marry Omul. And Abu Talha was a very very wealthy man. And so as it is customary, he told her to ask for whatever whatever dowy, whatever m she wanted. He could he could he could do it because he was a very wealthy man. His wealth in our terms is multi multi-millionaire. Very very wealthy. And so she asked him for her dowy. Does anybody know what she required as her dowy was a very high price.
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Dowy. And so to to her dowy was that he accept Islam something that no amount of money can buy. And so he accepted Islam. He married and became one of the foremost companions of the messenger of Allah sallall.aii wasallam. A man meets a righteous woman, she can make everything in his life better. Right? This guy got the best of this life and the hereafter because he happened to come upon a righteous woman. On the other hand, you meet a woman that is not righteous and good God, you will have quite a time. A woman, a good woman can make your life good. A bad woman can break your life. And this is why Ibraimisam made this one of the most important parts and the important messages to his son, right? when he came to Mecca to find his son and he had married a woman and is out hunting but he found Ismael's wife and he didn't say that he was Ibraim the father of is he was just a traveler looking for is and she said come in and she gave him as is customary marry for it's an old man and he said how is your life with this mah she said it's terrible we are just we are struggling financially etc etc etc she doesn't know this man from Adam but she airs out her husband's her husband's not secrets but her husband's you know, hardships. And so he said, "Well, I'm it's best I be going tell Is when he comes back to change the porch, to change his stoop." A stoop is the first part of the house that you enter into. Sometimes this is translated as doormat. This is a wrong translation. Is the first part of the floor of a person's house. And so is came back. She said, "This old man came by and he said, "Did did he say anything? Did you leave me a message?" She said, "Yes." She said, "He told me to tell you a salam and to change the stoop of your house, of your front door." He said, "That was my father and he's instructed me to divorce you. You're divorced." Why? That's all that's all I needed to know. Right now, we are not as insightful as I am. Ibraimisam was a messenger of Allah and was a prophet of Allah. But the point of this story that the prophet tells us is to articulate the dire nature of the woman in the household. The woman of the household is incredibly important. Is the neutron more important than the proton in an atom? We can't say that they're more important or less important. They don't exist without each other. Correct? And this is the nature that the husband and the wife share in the house. So, Ibraimisam wanted to make sure that this happened before they had children. and the story is long and well known. Maybe one time we will give that. Give it in a hutbah. You think I'll make it out of here alive if I give a hutba on that? You think so? Will you protect me? We'll have to hire we'll have to hire armed security to get me out of the masid after I give that. Yeah. This is this is prohibited speech. I'm not I am I you, but you're treading on thin ice, right? So the point is is that she said to the messenger, "Oh messenger of Allah," and we mentioned this narration yesterday. And so Bkari Muslim Sal is the prophet's wife, the wife of the late Abu Sal, the widow we should say of the late Abu Salah she narrates that which is an Malik's mother asked the messenger of Allah saiam she she set this up with a with a statement. She said, "Oh messenger of Allah, indeed Allah is never too shy for the truth or modest for the truth." And so is there an obligation of bathing upon a woman if she has a wet dream? Because often wet dream is associated what? usually with men because it's most prominent in males. And he said yes if she finds the traces of the sexual secretions from said wet dream. And that goes for men and women. Person has a dream. It's a sexual dream. A dream of a of sexual nature. Even if they feel whatever they feel in their dream, no matter how vivid the dream was, if the person wakes up and checks his or her clothing, if there is you know the result of that, if there is wetness from that, then the person makes if not then the person does not need to make. And the opposite is correct. If a person wakes up, they do not remember having a wet dream, but they find the evidence of a wet dream, then is obligatory. They are in a state of janaba.