Does Your Phone's Adhan Count?
The Ruling on Recorded Adhan and Proper Etiquettes of Prayer Calls
Summary
This lecture from Zadul-Ma'ad covers the etiquettes of speaking and proper Islamic practices related to the call to prayer (Adhan). Sheikh Ali Mashhour addresses practical issues including the ruling on recorded Adhan calls on phones (which have no legal status since Adhan requires conscious intention from a living person), the proper timing of Adhan (which should follow the occasion of prayer, not just clock time), and the correct responses to Adhan. The lecture also discusses the rules of Takbir (magnification of Allah) during Hajj and Eid celebrations, clarifying the specific times and forms of Takbir according to authentic Islamic practice. The sheikh emphasizes that many common additions to Takbir lack authentic narration from the Prophet, though various acceptable wordings exist within the general command to make Takbir.
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Etiquettes of speaking or how the prophet spoke, how he used words so forth. This is kind of the theme of these chapters here. We discussed last week and then, May you send no When I walk far.
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Then last week We discussed what is the for a person to do during, right? What should a person do during a then? What should they say, How should they repeat after them? We have an issue that we'd to discuss and that is the that is recorded, recorded it then, on your phone, right? Some apps, most apps, they have, you know, the it calls the either a portion of it or all of it on the time of salah and then, we'll also call the Ikama, right? people often are confused about this event. What is the ruling on this event? To the point that some people will feel a kind of they will feel discouraged to turn off the event when it's being called on the phone. Even if they're in salah. Sometimes even here in the Masjid we have people that have their phone you know, set to make a then at a certain time and when the event is going off on their phone or during a funeral or something that, they will feel reluctant to turn this off or to silence it, right? So, what is the ruling of this? The answer is and then has no ruling because it's not considered a then legislatively, right? It's a then has to have intention A person has to have intention to make a then. So, for instance, if we were to teach a parrot, teach a parrot that at every time, every day at this time or that time, you make it then, right? Would this be valid? You know, for the town. We have a parrot making it then instead of a human or now, we have, we have you know, recordings. Is it okay for us to have the recording time to make a then for us, right? So the recording makes an end for the whole town. No no more because it's recorded. What's the answer? No. This would not be valid. Why? Because a then has to be a conscious decision made by the collective with an intention. And they you know, the collective, the community, they decide on a particular person to do this thing that is wedging for them on their behalf. So, it then has to have intention. There's an interaction between them and the person who hears the event and that has to be driven by intention on both sides. So, what is the ruling of the that is recorded on a person's phone? The answer is it has no ruling. It has no ruling. It's not considered a then. You do not repeat after it. You do not make dua after it, right? And you do not, you do not use it instead of nor does it take the place of making a in your house for instance. Persons in their house, there's no masjid nearby that makes an end. They need to make it then for their salah. They need to make if your phone calls the does that count? No, it does not count. If the starts going off in an inappropriate time, should a person silence it? Yes, immediately silence it. Persons in a funeral, persons in all the sudden, we have three four, 10 phones, started making, and then. Also, we have this going on when the event is actually being made. So, as the starts making Adan, everybody's phone starts going off, right? Or for instance, we're giving a class now and we stop maybe a minute or two after the time of it then. So, while I'm giving the class, all the phones start going off and making it in. This is inappropriate, right? We have to have a person to make a then for us. But Another issue Amran Amil Adan, Lee Attenbi, Hala Sola.
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In mosques here in this Masjid. Is set. It's always at 110, always. No matter what day of the year it is, it's always going to be at one 10. And the is always going to be at one o'clock. Sometimes, comes in at 11 something, right? So the question is, should the be made? At the time, when the time of the salah comes in, or should it be made for the occasion of the salah? The answer is a man should be made for the occasion of salah. So, Adan follows salah. It doesn't follow the time. Sometimes, you know, our previous schedule was we would make Aisha no earlier than eight o'clock at night here in this Masjid, right? But sometimes in the winter, it's time starts at five, 515, 530, right? So, do we make a then at 530 and then three hours later, make a karma? No. Because a then goes with salah. It doesn't go with it doesn't go with the time. Usually, it's made on time. But it depends on what the community for that local mosque, that locale, what they have agreed upon. And whatever times they have agreed upon to make salah and then follows the time of salah. It doesn't follow the time when salah is valid. This is how the prophet would make an end. This is how you'd use it for the occasion of salah. So, we see for instance, when the prophet you know, this is narrations in Bukhari and elsewhere. When we see that the prophet would be traveling. Right? He'd be traveling. He would not make a then until it was time for salah. Meaning when he would make salah. So, you're traveling comes in at 12 o'clock. You don't make to one 30. Adan needs to be made at one thirty, right? So, I then follow salah and it doesn't necessarily follow. The time of salat. This is the most correct opinion of the with regards to this issue. Another issue of does a person repeat after the and or only the event.
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And then is used to refer to the and it's also used to refer to the so he says between every two and then there is two raka to be made for those who wish to do so. Right? So he says between every two and then right? So, the in the of the prophet if it is mentioned just it is used to refer to both and however, if he says the word then is used to in the same sentence, then, Adan is obviously Adan and is to mark the beginning of the prayer immediately. We mentioned last week the Hams, Sunan, You send no. You are.
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They repeat after them and then exactly what the Moed then says. Except when he says or in this case you say, likewise, we said in the you repeat after the what should you say? Or in the morning if he says what should you say?
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The second Sunnah is that after the Shahada he said it the last time you say.
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At least that we say Allah Muhammad at least but whenever we find in the that the prophet says to make upon him what is meant and the best way of making salah is to say what we say in salah. Allah In Majid. I.
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Prophet. There's a particular dua to make That dua is.
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Those who make dua, right? What's the best dua a person should make? Well, mentions here in the narration which he states is authentic. He says, that the companions asked the prophet after he informed them supplication, dua, prayer will not be rejected between so they asked him, so what should we say? What's the best thing to say? He said, ask Allah for pardon. In this life and the hereafter. Persons say aluminium Just that. Alright? Abdul the.
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He encouraged that a person make plenty of saying and.
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Alhamdulillah during this time. And it's mentioned that of his that during the month of the he would begin specific beer. So, all of the first 10 days of the were making general all the time. Doesn't, it's not specific for the time of salah. However, when we get to the ninth day which is the day of Arafah, he would begin to make specific tekbir after each salah So, every time you made a salah, finish finisher, starting on the day of of the ninth day which is the day of Arafah and that specific Taqbir after every salah will be the five prayers will be until until of the thirteenth day. because we have the day of Arafah, we have the day of Obha, and then we have 3 days for right? The days of so, during, you know the we have a very long Eid which begins at at Arafa and it ends on the thirteenth. It begins on the ninth and is on the thirteenth. So we are making Tekbir specifically after each prayer of the five daily prayers and if there is a during that time. We're making it when after every starting at on the ninth day and ending after on the thirteenth day of the Hajja. I'm saying this a lot and I'm repeating myself over and over and over. Why? Because a lot of people confuse this. Now, what about the Eid? Eid al Futr. Ramadan. Eid Ramadan, the first day of Shawwal, is Eid, right? How do we make? Well, the begins after on the day of the first day of Shawwal and it ends after the salah of Eid. After the Eid salah has been made. So once the imam finishes that's the end of a Right? So in in you know time. It's five days. Specific and on the day of it's just one which is you make and that's it after that. Alright. We make general all the way until the imam is finished with salah. And then we are done with tekbir. This is the sun of the prophet with.
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Narration mentioning the way that the prophet made doesn't exist. what we have in the Quran is a general command to make taqbir. Hajj, a general command to make taqbir. How the prophet made taqbir. We don't have an authentic narration. Mentioning that. Ibn mentions this week narration and it's the least week from amongst.
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Says and this is what many people do. We have another wording that is most common. I don't know. this is this wording is most common everywhere I've been basically.
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That Ibn Ibn Ibn Abbas and Jabber Ibn Abdullah used to make their taqbir. So, three tekbir. to and both of them are correct and good.
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Seen this before. The masjid I went to when I was a kid in Indiana. I they probably still do this. They pass out the paper and you pick up a paper and you read along. You know and it's a long paper of you know law. It's whole thing. None of this is authentically narrated from the prophet if a.
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That's enough. If they say nothing else, they have, done what the Quran has commanded, they've done what the prophet used to do. However, this way that we mention or the next way that we mention or the way that he mentions, all of that is acceptable and all of that falls within the generality of the command of making Taqbir. of making taqbir after the during the days of Next chapters that we're going to be speaking about are going to be discussing what the prophet would say and his mannerisms with regards to eating. How he would eat, how he would drink, and so forth. It's a very important chapter. We spend a lot of our lives eating, right? We spend a lot of our time drinking and it's a very easy sunnah to to fulfill. You know, as you're eating, you do it the way that the prophet did. You have to eat anyways. You turn this eating into, you turn it into a worship of Allah. It's of the beauty of Islam and the you know, the range of opportunity that is allotted to the Muslim and his worship of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So, next week inshallah, we will be discussing the etiquettes of eating, the etiquettes of drinking, what a person should say, how a person should eat, and so on and so forth. It's an exciting chapter. After this, we will get into the etiquettes of sneezing, seeking permission to enter knocking on doors, things like that. After that, we will get into a Salem. The etiquettes on that. and so forth. these are very important chapters. Also, after about a month, we'll be discussing the prophet etiquettes in travel and so for So, that is enough for tonight. Allah.