Alerting people to stand for night prayer by phone call or text message
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Question:
Does this align with the practice of the Sunnah as reported from al-Thuflayn? The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, does alerting people to stand for night prayer include calling neighbors, for example, or sending a text message on a mobile phone in which I write a hadith that remi
Answer:
Al-Mustadrak lil-Hakim 25:708 These do not wake them up. If your letter does not wake them up, the message will not. They need something to wake them from sleep. If you send a hundred messages, they will not wake up. But if you speak to them on the mobile phone or the telephone, or call out to them, that is what wakes them up. Yes.
Does this align with the practice of the Sunnah as reported from al-Thuflayn? The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, does alerting people to stand for night prayer include calling neighbors, for example, or sending a text message on a mobile phone in which I write a hadith that remi
Answer:
O people, remember Allah. The rear guard has come, and the rear guard will follow it.
أيها الناس اذكروا الله جاءت الرادفة فتبعها الرادفة
Source
شرح قاعدة جليلة في التوسل والوسيلة، بداية من قوله : فإن قيل : الرب - سبحانه وتعالى - يُقسم بما شاء من مخلوقاته، وليس لنا أن نقسم عليه إلا به — islamhouse.com (1:13:10)
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