What is the ruling on the prayer of one who says "As-Sirat al-Dheena" instead of saying: "Guide us to the straight path * The path of those"? And what is your advice for them?
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The questioner : May Allah reward you with good. They say "Guide us" instead of saying: [Al-Fatihah 1:6-7] He says: "As-Sirat al-Dheena"!
The Shaykh : I seek refuge in Allah!
The questioner : I have heard this from many people in all the places, and I pointed it out, but I do not know if I am mistaken?
The Shaykh : No, you are correct, may Allah bless you.
The questioner : And I am not a student and I have no knowledge.
The Shaykh : You are listening to this!
The questioner : I am here at the place of the question, regarding this verse where the beginning is indefinite and what follows is definite, so they say instead of saying:[Al-Fatihah 1:6-7] they say: "As-Sirat al-Dheena", so I do not know what your answer and comment on this matter is?
The Shaykh : This error exposes its owner to the invalidity of the prayer, but they must correct their speech and expressions.
The questioner : This matter occupied me all night.
And I advised him, and finally he openly defied me!
The Shaykh : And he said?
The questioner : He said: I am praying and you are invalidating it for me, and I, and I, and I.
The Shaykh : Tell him: You are [correct], may Allah bless you!
The questioner : I told him. May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : Tell him: Allah the Exalted said:[An-Nahl 16:43], ask the scholars, tell him this, because he may look at you and think that you are not from the people of knowledge, and therefore he is arrogant toward you, but!
The questioner : And this is probably the exact truth.
The Shaykh : It is this, may Allah bless you.
The questioner : But the issue is that I did not say this for one day or two days or a year or two years, but in the end he said: On the basis that I am praying or not praying for you, I am not praying for you, and I am praying in other mosques, and he has never prayed with me in my mosque, so I said to him: My son, even if you are good, let me have a good opinion of you, pray with me, okay.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : But he did not pray with me, and finally I differed with him and I said to him: My son, my only condition on you is that you obey Allah, so if you do not obey Allah, then this is my house and it excuses you, so am I mistaken in this matter?
The Shaykh : You are mistaken in one aspect: that you made yourself with him a word that he attributed to the scholars.
The questioner : You asked him for this thing, and he is a student, he is not ignorant, he is a student.
The Shaykh : No problem, he is a student, remind him of the verse I told you earlier: the people of knowledge, meaning those who are good at reading the Qur'an, and then they will support you against him, and if there is good in him, he will respond to them, he may not respond to you because he thinks that you are not from the people of knowledge, and he will say to you: Who are you? I am more knowledgeable and more learned than you, and so on, but if you refer him to the people of knowledge, then you have established the proof against him.
The questioner : He is not with me now anyway.
The Shaykh : What is it?
The questioner : He is not with me now, because I told him my only condition for your prayer in the mosque, I told him: And if you mean a liar, then your lying is upon you, and only let me have a good opinion of you, pray with me, and your lying is between you and yourself, did you hear? If this is a true thing, then I saw it and the people testify to what they see with their eyes.
The Shaykh : Yes, anyway, if you see him, I advise you to say:[An-Nahl 16:43].
The questioner : And secondly: I swore that I would not greet him because some people said come and greet him and so on, I said I will not greet him except in the mosque, in the house of Allah, and I imposed conditions on him in Allah, but I do not know if I was mistaken in these things?
The Shaykh : I answered you where the mistake is, and that is all.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
(6) Guide us to the straight path - (7) The path of those upon whom You have bestowed favor, not of those who have evoked [Your] anger or of those who are astray.
اهدنا الصراط المستقيم * صراط الذينThe Shaykh : I seek refuge in Allah!
The questioner : I have heard this from many people in all the places, and I pointed it out, but I do not know if I am mistaken?
The Shaykh : No, you are correct, may Allah bless you.
The questioner : And I am not a student and I have no knowledge.
The Shaykh : You are listening to this!
The questioner : I am here at the place of the question, regarding this verse where the beginning is indefinite and what follows is definite, so they say instead of saying:
(6) Guide us to the straight path - (7) The path of those upon whom You have bestowed favor, not of those who have evoked [Your] anger or of those who are astray.
اهدنا الصراط المستقيم * صراط الذينThe Shaykh : This error exposes its owner to the invalidity of the prayer, but they must correct their speech and expressions.
The questioner : This matter occupied me all night.
And I advised him, and finally he openly defied me!
The Shaykh : And he said?
The questioner : He said: I am praying and you are invalidating it for me, and I, and I, and I.
The Shaykh : Tell him: You are [correct], may Allah bless you!
The questioner : I told him. May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : Tell him: Allah the Exalted said:
So ask the people of the message if you do not know.
فاسألوا أهل الذكر إن كنتم لا تعلمونThe questioner : And this is probably the exact truth.
The Shaykh : It is this, may Allah bless you.
The questioner : But the issue is that I did not say this for one day or two days or a year or two years, but in the end he said: On the basis that I am praying or not praying for you, I am not praying for you, and I am praying in other mosques, and he has never prayed with me in my mosque, so I said to him: My son, even if you are good, let me have a good opinion of you, pray with me, okay.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : But he did not pray with me, and finally I differed with him and I said to him: My son, my only condition on you is that you obey Allah, so if you do not obey Allah, then this is my house and it excuses you, so am I mistaken in this matter?
The Shaykh : You are mistaken in one aspect: that you made yourself with him a word that he attributed to the scholars.
The questioner : You asked him for this thing, and he is a student, he is not ignorant, he is a student.
The Shaykh : No problem, he is a student, remind him of the verse I told you earlier
So ask the people of knowledge if you do not know.
فاسألوا أهل الذكرThe questioner : He is not with me now anyway.
The Shaykh : What is it?
The questioner : He is not with me now, because I told him my only condition for your prayer in the mosque, I told him: And if you mean a liar, then your lying is upon you, and only let me have a good opinion of you, pray with me, and your lying is between you and yourself, did you hear? If this is a true thing, then I saw it and the people testify to what they see with their eyes.
The Shaykh : Yes, anyway, if you see him, I advise you to say:
ask the people of the message if you do not know.
اسألوا أهل الذكر إن كنتم لا تعلمونThe questioner : And secondly: I swore that I would not greet him because some people said come and greet him and so on, I said I will not greet him except in the mosque, in the house of Allah, and I imposed conditions on him in Allah, but I do not know if I was mistaken in these things?
The Shaykh : I answered you where the mistake is, and that is all.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.