Issue: (Complete your prayer; for we are a traveling people).
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The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : This is a second question.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : By Allah, this issue has a degree of subtlety. Once I traveled from Damascus for 'Umrah, so I diverted and diverted; at that time I diverted my mount, as they say, to Tabuk, and I stayed as a guest with some of our brothers. They brought me forward... for the prayer... in the mosque, they brought me forward as the imam. So I said to him: O so-and-so, you know that I am a traveler; meaning a traveler who shortens and does not lengthen. He said: There is no harm. So let them learn. I said: But the people are in a state of great heedlessness.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : It is this, and this is an example.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : ... But despite that, I was cautious and took precautions, and I gave them a lecture while I was standing in the mihrab. I elaborated, saying to them: The Sunnah is such and such, and the Messenger (peace be upon him) did such and such. But I felt as if this speech was entering from here and exiting from there.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : So, glory to Allah! I barely...
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The Shaykh : And the point is that I barely finished the taslim and I made them hear this:Muwatta Malik 9:22, then the commotion began, a commotion of some having finished and some still standing to complete, and after that the discussion became back and forth, and some of them said to the one who brought me forward: Why, O... did you bring thisThe Shaykh : Shaykh? He caused us confusion and disturbance? After that... I do not advance into such a situation...
The Shaykh : This is a second question.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : By Allah, this issue has a degree of subtlety. Once I traveled from Damascus for 'Umrah, so I diverted and diverted; at that time I diverted my mount, as they say, to Tabuk, and I stayed as a guest with some of our brothers. They brought me forward... for the prayer... in the mosque, they brought me forward as the imam. So I said to him: O so-and-so, you know that I am a traveler; meaning a traveler who shortens and does not lengthen. He said: There is no harm. So let them learn. I said: But the people are in a state of great heedlessness.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : It is this, and this is an example.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : ... But despite that, I was cautious and took precautions, and I gave them a lecture while I was standing in the mihrab. I elaborated, saying to them: The Sunnah is such and such, and the Messenger (peace be upon him) did such and such. But I felt as if this speech was entering from here and exiting from there.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : So, glory to Allah! I barely...
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : And the point is that I barely finished the taslim and I made them hear this:
complete the prayer, we are a group travelling.
أتمُّوا صلاتكم فإنا قوم سفر
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