The ruling on covering the head with a shemagh during prayer
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, does covering the head with a shemagh count as the covering of the garment mentioned in the hadith prohibiting it?
Answer:
No, not in prostration. What is meant by the prohibited covering of the garment in prostration is that when a person prostrates, he does not adjust his clothes; he lets them prostrate with him. As for standing while he is standing, or adjusting his turban or his head covering, because it is in an unsightly shape, so he adjusts it to be in a good state of dress, this is something required,[Al-A'raf 7:31], adorn what
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, does covering the head with a shemagh count as the covering of the garment mentioned in the hadith prohibiting it?
Answer:
No, not in prostration. What is meant by the prohibited covering of the garment in prostration is that when a person prostrates, he does not adjust his clothes; he lets them prostrate with him. As for standing while he is standing, or adjusting his turban or his head covering, because it is in an unsightly shape, so he adjusts it to be in a good state of dress, this is something required,
take your adornment at every masjid
خُذُوا زِينَتَكُمْ عِندَ كُلِّ مَسْجِدٍ
Source
الفوزان -أشرطة- شرح زاد المستقنع مع الأسئلة - 016-كتاب الصلاة - 7 - صفة الصلاة - 21-6-21 هـ — archive.org (24:30)
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