Discussion of those who pray twenty rak'ahs instead of eleven.
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The Shaykh : ... ... Today they pray twenty rak'ahs in twenty minutes. If they prayed two rak'ahs in twenty minutes, that would be better... So, twenty rak'ahs in twenty minutes, they click through them like a crow pecking. This prayer is not lifted from the ground, and the matter is as Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman said to a man he saw praying a prayer in which he did not settle: "If this man dies while praying this prayer, he will die upon a religion other than the religion of Muhammad." So, let us suppose that the Shaykh... eleven is permissible.
... there is haste in it... We pray, or rather, when we are afflicted with praying behind these imams, we feel that we are racing with the imam. Come on... two rak'ahs of the prayer... And then, strangely, they took...
They hasten... so that... The reciter used to lengthen the recitation until they would lean on their canes. So you did not take from the Sunnah of 'Umar except the quantity, and you left the quality? This means that the matter is a matter of desire.
It is a matter of following the Sunnah of the Rightly Guided Caliphs. The Sunnah of the Rightly Guided Caliphs, if the number is twenty, is that there is lengthening in the recitation, in the bowing, and in the prostration. So why did you take some and leave some?
Yes?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh: This is ignorance on his part; because the science of usul (principles) is like the science of the principles of language and its rules. All of that is derived from the study of language, and the principles of jurisprudence from the study of the Shari'ah, and the principles of hadith likewise. But whoever is ignorant of a thing becomes its enemy.
The questioner: ... the science... in it...
The Shaykh: And is there a hadith saying "upon you is the science of hadith"? Where did this science come from? It came from the same path that brought you that knowledge, but unfortunately, whoever is ignorant of a thing becomes its enemy. Yes, that is right.
... the 'illah (operative cause) of the hadith. Look, this is the matn (text), not what the Shaykh Ibn Baz brought.
The questioner : ... .
... there is haste in it... We pray, or rather, when we are afflicted with praying behind these imams, we feel that we are racing with the imam. Come on... two rak'ahs of the prayer... And then, strangely, they took...
They hasten... so that... The reciter used to lengthen the recitation until they would lean on their canes. So you did not take from the Sunnah of 'Umar except the quantity, and you left the quality? This means that the matter is a matter of desire.
It is a matter of following the Sunnah of the Rightly Guided Caliphs. The Sunnah of the Rightly Guided Caliphs, if the number is twenty, is that there is lengthening in the recitation, in the bowing, and in the prostration. So why did you take some and leave some?
Yes?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh: This is ignorance on his part; because the science of usul (principles) is like the science of the principles of language and its rules. All of that is derived from the study of language, and the principles of jurisprudence from the study of the Shari'ah, and the principles of hadith likewise. But whoever is ignorant of a thing becomes its enemy.
The questioner: ... the science... in it...
The Shaykh: And is there a hadith saying "upon you is the science of hadith"? Where did this science come from? It came from the same path that brought you that knowledge, but unfortunately, whoever is ignorant of a thing becomes its enemy. Yes, that is right.
... the 'illah (operative cause) of the hadith. Look, this is the matn (text), not what the Shaykh Ibn Baz brought.
The questioner : ... .
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