Secondly, once the food is over, most of the sisters do not pray Taraaweeh, but instead sit in the back of the Musallah or in the hallway and talk with laughter and loudness, destroying our khushoo'. And they also allow the children to disturb us as well. All this is with the fact that we constantly try to advise and plead with the Muslims to have mercy on their brothers and sisters and respect Allaah's House, but to no avail.
Is it permissible to ask them not to come to the masjid if they are not going to pray or listen to the tilaawatul Qur'aan (recitation of Qur'aan) or to prevent them from bringing their small children? Please advice. Baarak Allaahu feekum.
Answer: Na'am jazahallaahu khairan. The sister is asking about two points. The first point is cleaning the mosque. First of all let us emphasize the reward of cleaning the mosque even in regular times. We all know that There was in the time of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم a black woman who the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم missed one day and he asked the sahaabah about her and they told him that she died when he was having qailulah (sleeping at the Dhuhr time after praying Dhuhr). So he asked them what they did with her. They said they had her washed, then shrouded and did the prayer of janaazah and buried her. The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم got very angry and said "why didn't you awake me, lead me to her grave." So he went to the grave and did the janaazah prayer there and said that this woman is a woman of Jannah and he mentioned that she used to lift the small dirt from the mosque just the small dirt that could not be seen and she used to clean the mosque. [1] And he said: that cleaning the mosque or picking up dirt from the mosque is the mahr – the dowry of the Hoor al-'Een.[2]
And perhaps the sisters will say we won't clean because the Hoor al-'Een are female and we are female, and there is no mahr from a female to another female. We say that the Muslim women from the children of Aadam and Hawwaa are going to be the queens for the Hoor al-'Een. If the one Hoor al-'Een is so beautiful to the extent that if she just exposes her face in the dunya there will be no night, or if she spits into the sea it will all become sweet – if this is for one Hoor al-'Een then what about many Hoor al-'Een, and what about the queens of the Hoor al-'Een? The queen of the Hoor al-'Een is going to be given more beauty than the Hoor al-'Een. So by cleaning the mosque you are pleasing Allaah and you are also at the same time gaining the highest rank in Jannah.
The second point is that by dirtying the masjid you are dirtying the House of Allaah and disrespecting the House of Allaah. This is showing disrespect to Allaah. Allaah تعالى says in the Qur'aan:
وَمَنْ يُعَظِّمْ شَعَائِرَ اللَّهِ فَإِنَّهَا مِنْ تَقْوَى الْقُلُوبِ
{….and whosoever honors the Symbols of Allaah, then it is truly from the piety of the hearts.} [Al-Hajj 22:32]
And Sha'aair includes the acts of worship and the places of worship. Observe when Abrahah came to disrespect the House of Allaah and he wanted to demolish it, Allaah destroyed him and his army.
My advice to the sisters and the brothers, because we also see this from the brothers – that they don't cleanup when they eat in the masjid. First of all, they are not allowed to bring food that has smell – especially the ones which are cooked with garlic or onions as well. Also, if they eat food in the masjid that has no bad smell they have to clean and they have to perfume (the masjid). We know that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم encouraged cleaning and perfuming the masaajid with incense and other things. So we have to take care of the masaajid. If when we have guests in our house we don't tolerate that our house is dirty then how is it that we keep the house of Allaah dirty whilst we see that guests are coming? The people who come to pray are the guests of Allaah. They come to pray in the mosque so we should not cause this type of disrespect to the mosque. Rather, we need to clean and show respect to the mosque which is the House of Allaah.
The second thing, those who stay in the mosque after 'Eesha whether from the brothers or the sisters, whether in your mosque or even what we see in Masjid Al-Haram and Masjid an-Nabawi after 'Eesha where they (some of the people) say "we want to be on the Sunnah, we pray only eleven (11) raka'aat". So they stay, talking to others, disturbing the people who are in prayer, and perhaps they joke and laugh and that is bad from two angles. Firstly they did not adhere the Sunnah as they say they wanted to because the sunnah is what the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said: "One who prays with the Imaam until he leaves it is written for him that he prayed the whole night."[3] You are not the Imaam – you are the one who comes to pray behind the Imaam, so if you stay behind the Imaam until he leaves – and here it doesn't mean the Imaam is Mr. So and So; for example in Makkah it doesn't mean Shuraim or Sudais – no it means the (whichever Imaam leads until the) whole prayer (is finished). Even if Shuraim prays 10 raka'aat and leaves you cannot leave and say I'll get the reward of whole night because the prayer is still continuing with Sudais. It is the same as when you are praying fard and the Imaam breaks the wudū' and leaves, one from the rows will step forward and lead the jama'ah. So when one say that he made tasleem (gives salaams) because my Imaam finished – No, that is not acceptable. You are supposed to do the Salaah as it is.
The saying of 'Aishah that: "The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم did not pray more than eleven rak'ah in Ramadaan and other than Ramadaan."[4] This is for the Imaam. We encourage the Imaam to pray eleven raka'aat but if he wants to pray more than that we can't say that this is a bid'ah, to say this is haraam because the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was asked and he said:
صلاة الليل مثنى مثنى, فإذا خشي أحدكم الصبح صلّى ركعة واحدة, توتر له ما قد صلى
The night prayer is two rakah two rakah and if one fears the fajr he should pray one and that will make the witr for him for the whole night. [5]The guidance for the ma'moomeen (the one who pray behind the Imaam) is clearly stated by the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم himself, and not by 'Aishah where he صلى الله عليه وسلم guided the ma'moomeen – the people who pray behind the Imaam to wait until the whole prayer is finished so they get the reward.
The second thing, if they insist (on praying eleven) and they say "No, no, no, we are with the opinion which says only eleven raka'aat". We say that those 'Ulamaa who say eleven raka'aat also say it is forbidden for you to disturb the people who are praying. It is forbidden for you to stay and disrespect those in the masjid by talking a lot and joking and laughing, that is not allowed. You are not even allowed to disturb others by sitting aside, holding the Qur'aan and reading loudly; if it is not allowed for you to pray loudly in your house when your family is asleep so that you don't disturb them, then how it is allowed to disturb the people who are praying (in the masjid)? That's why we need to have fiqh of this Sharee'ah.
Regarding this Sharee'ah, many people are unfortunately dealing with the nusoos (texts) as letters and text and that's it. They don't deal with the fiqh (understanding) of them (the texts). That is why there are people who have information and people who have knowledge. There is a difference between information and knowledge. Even Shaytaan has information, but he doesn't have Knowledge. The kuffar have information on Islaam but don't have knowledge and that is why they are the not guided. So we need to have the knowledge – the knowledge of fiqh. That is why when the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم supplicated for Ibn Abbas, he asked Allaah for two things for Ibn Abbas – 'Ilm and Fiqh.[6]
علمه التأويل وفقهه في الدين
So we have to differentiate between these two things and we need to have fiqh of this religion. والله أعلم Answered by: Shaykh Muhammad al-Maliki
Title of Lecture: Ramadaan 1427 = 2006
Date of the Lecture: Saturday, October 14th, 2006
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[1] Reported with the following wording in Saheeh al-Bukhaari, Abwaab al-Masaajid (#446). Also reported in Saheeh Muslim with a similar wording - Kitaab al-Janaa'iz (#956).
أن رجلا أسود، أو امرأة سوداء، كان يقم المسجد، فمات، فسأل النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم عنه، فقالوا: مات، قال: (أفلا كنتم آذنتموني به، دلوني على قبره، أو قال قبرها). فأتى قبرها فصلى عليها
[2] With the following wording Shaykh al-Albaani رحمه الله says Da`eef in Silsilah ad-Da`eefah 4/170 (#1675).
ابنوا المساجد وأخرجوا القمامة منها فمن بنى لله مسجدا بنى الله له بيتا في الجنة قال رجل وهذه المساجد التي تبنى في الطريق قال نعم و إخراج القمامة منها مهور حور العين
[3] Shaykh al-Albaani رحمه الله says Saheeh in Saheeh al-Jaami` (#2417) with the following wording:إنه من قام مع الإمام حتى ينصرف كتب له قيام ليلة
[4] Reported with the following wording in Saheeh al-Bukhaari, Abwaab at-Tahajjud (#1096). Also reported in Saheeh Muslim with a similar wording - Kitaab Salaah al-Musaafireen wa Qasruhaa (#738).ما كان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يزيد في رمضان ولا في غيره على إحدى عشرة ركعة
[5] Reported in Saheeh al-Bukhaari Kitaab al-Witr (#946) and Saheeh Muslim Kitaab Salaah al-Musaafireen wa Qasruhaa (#749).[6] Shaykh al-Albaani رحمه الله says Saheeh in Silsilah as-Saheehah 6/173 (#2589) with the following wording
اللهم فقهه في الدين وعلمه التأويل
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