Covering the face in prayer and imitating the disbelievers
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, you mentioned (may Allah preserve you) that covering the face in prayer involves imitating the disbelievers. Why is it not forbidden, but rather disliked?
Answer:
Imitating the Ansar is sometimes done in a state of presence and sometimes in a state of absence, or perhaps all imitation is good. There are things in it that are disliked, and they said that this is disliked as a reprehensible act of avoidance (makruh tanzihi), and therefore it satisfies the one who seeks benefit and he dislikes it in prayer.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, you mentioned (may Allah preserve you) that covering the face in prayer involves imitating the disbelievers. Why is it not forbidden, but rather disliked?
Answer:
Imitating the Ansar is sometimes done in a state of presence and sometimes in a state of absence, or perhaps all imitation is good. There are things in it that are disliked, and they said that this is disliked as a reprehensible act of avoidance (makruh tanzihi), and therefore it satisfies the one who seeks benefit and he dislikes it in prayer.
Source
شرح زاد المستقنع [12] — alfawzan.live (1:25:21)
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