The Ruling on the Imām Pausing After Reciting Sūrah al-Fātiḥah in Ṣalāh
The Ruling on Reciting Another Sūrah After al-Fātiḥah in Ṣalāh
Recommended Aspects When Reciting Sūrahs After Sūrah al-Fātiḥah
The Ruling on Repeating Recitation of the Same Sūrah Within the Same Ṣalāh
Rulings on Changing the Order of the Qurʾān
The Ruling on the Imām Pausing After Reciting Sūrah al-Fātiḥah in Ṣalāh
What Is the Duration of this Pause?
It is the position of the Ḥanbalī madh`hab that the imām pauses for some time after reciting Sūrah al-Fātiḥah.
[Q]: What is the duration of this pause?
[A]…
As for their claim: It is not obligatory for us to follow Muḥammad. This is because many messengers have already come to us before him who have already addressed us in our own language, and have taken from us a solemn vow to abide by our religion upon which we currently hold steadfastly to. They have given us the Torah and the Bible in our own languages. This is a fact that the book that this man brought attests to, as he said in Sūrah Ibrāhīm:
وَمَا أَرْسَلْنَا مِن رَّسُولٍ إِلَّا بِلِسَانِ قَوْمِهِ
“And We sent not a Messenger except with the language of his people,”
(14:4)
And in Sūrah al-…
فَمَنْ تَعَصَّبَ لِأَهْلِ بَلْدَتِهِ أَوْ مَذْهَبِهِ أَوْ طَرِيقَتِهِ أَوْ قَرَابَتِهِ أَوْ لِأَصْدِقَائِهِ دُونَ غَيْرِهِمْ كَانَتْ فِيهِ شُعْبَةٌ مِنْ الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ
Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah said:
Anyone who fanatically favours their fellow countrymen, their madhʾhab, chosen path, their kin, or their friends over others, embodies a trait from the era of pre-Islamic ignorance.1
The Dangers of Blindly Following One’s Madhʾhab
Imām Nāsir al-Din al-Albānī said, regarding the issue of raising the hands (before/after rukūʿ) in ṣalāh and the lack of adoption of it by many claiming to be ‘Ḥa…
The Importance of Truthfulness
The Danger of Timewasting and Gossiping
The Issue of Lying When Joking
The Dangers of Mockery (and Trolling)
The Importance of Truthfulness
On the authority of Ibn Masʿūd (رضي الله عنه) who said: The Messenger of Allāh (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said: “I implore you to be truthful. For, indeed, truthfulness leads to piety and—indeed—piety leads to Paradise. And a man continues to be truthful—aspiring and inspecting himself for it—until he is written with Allāh among the truthful. I caution you from lying, for indeed lying leads to immorality, and immorality…
The Opinion of the Ḥanbalī Madh`hab
[According to the Ḥanbalī madh`hab], if the wiping period expires it becomes obligatory to perform wuḍūʾ again, even if in a state of purity [i.e., wuḍūʾ]. For example, if someone wipes over his socks at twelve o’clock [noon] on Tuesday, then his wiping period will expire at twelve o’clock [noon] on Wednesday and his wuḍūʾ will be invalidated at that time. Thus, he should perform another complete wuḍūʾ[with his socks off; washing his feet]. Such is the opinion of the writer [i.e., in the Ḥanbalī madh`hab].
The Correct Opinion
There exists no evidence for th…
