The Prayer of al-Raghā'ib on the First Friday Night of Rajab
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The questioner:
Welcome. Do you possess these methods, and you are spending them on a people tonight from the time of treachery?
The Shaykh:
Yes, indeed. The Prayer of al-Raghā'ib is the prayer of the first Friday night of Rajab. They gather in the mosques and perform it, and they stand in prayer during the night, praying in congregation just as is done in Ramadan. You find that in Ramadan they do not attend the mosque, because they are occupied with innovation (bid'ah) and cannot be occupied with the Sunnah. Allah deprives them of the Sunnah. In fact, they may not even attend the obligatory prayers; they do not pray in congregation. We say that congregation is a recommended practice (sunnah), yet they do not pray in congregation. This is the way of Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He: the one who is afflicted with innovation is deprived of the Sunnah, because the Sunnah and innovation never coexist.
The questioner:
Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest.
The Shaykh:
Praise be to Allah. I.
Welcome. Do you possess these methods, and you are spending them on a people tonight from the time of treachery?
The Shaykh:
Yes, indeed. The Prayer of al-Raghā'ib is the prayer of the first Friday night of Rajab. They gather in the mosques and perform it, and they stand in prayer during the night, praying in congregation just as is done in Ramadan. You find that in Ramadan they do not attend the mosque, because they are occupied with innovation (bid'ah) and cannot be occupied with the Sunnah. Allah deprives them of the Sunnah. In fact, they may not even attend the obligatory prayers; they do not pray in congregation. We say that congregation is a recommended practice (sunnah), yet they do not pray in congregation. This is the way of Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He: the one who is afflicted with innovation is deprived of the Sunnah, because the Sunnah and innovation never coexist.
The questioner:
Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest.
The Shaykh:
Praise be to Allah. I.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 90 من 175 /شرح بلوغ المرام/الصيام/صوم التطوع وما نهي عن صومه/صالح الفوزان/الحديث/كبار العلماء — youtube.com (24:38)
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