Turning the head during the closing salam: Is it a pillar, an obligation, or a recommended practice?
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The questioner : Now, what do you say about turning the head during the salam? Turning to the right and to the left: is it a pillar, or an obligation, or a recommended practice? Hmm? And the inner meaning.
The Shaykh : Yes, because he said that it is only after that.
The questioner : Well done,
The Shaykh : I mean, we can take it from the author's words, or else we cannot use the author's words as evidence, because the author's words are not infallible. But we can take it if we want to follow the author's words, by taking it from his statement that "everything else is a recommended practice," correct? And this is a good derivation. Good.
The Shaykh : Yes, because he said that it is only after that.
The questioner : Well done,
The Shaykh : I mean, we can take it from the author's words, or else we cannot use the author's words as evidence, because the author's words are not infallible. But we can take it if we want to follow the author's words, by taking it from his statement that "everything else is a recommended practice," correct? And this is a good derivation. Good.
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قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، 1903الالتفات عند السلام هل هو ركن ولَّا واجب ولَّا سنة📔 الشرح الممتع على زاد المستقنع - ابن عثيمين — youtube.com
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