Is the prohibition against leaning valid?
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
The questioner : The position of being on the table while eating, do you consider that to be leaning?
The Shaykh: No.
The questioner : Like this, my Shaykh, leaning on the elbow, like this, this is...
The Shaykh : I do not consider it, first of all, to be the leaning that is prohibited. Excuse me, I intended to point out something and I fell into this. This is one of the wonders. I am content. I said first, I do not consider this leaning, and I followed this with my saying "that is prohibited," whereas I began by saying "first" to say "second," that there is no prohibition by consensus, but rather there is in... from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) that he would eat while leaning. This is an action, meaning...
The questioner : A prohibition of disapproval.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : A disapproval of disapproval.
The Shaykh: He did, meaning he disliked this matter, not[Al-Hujurat 49:7] like this text.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : The point is that eating while leaning, he (peace be upon him) did not eat while leaning, or it indicates that it is not among the etiquette of eating, but that does not mean it is forbidden, because prohibition requires a specific text in any case. It seems the question was incidental; what were we discussing?
The student : We were discussing the division of societies and...
The Shaykh : Where did our conversation lead us to, so that we can summarize?
The student : It will come; Shaykh Adnan will come and we spoke with him.
The Shaykh : Meaning we did not start anything now.
The questioner: No, no.
The Shaykh: No.
The questioner : Like this, my Shaykh, leaning on the elbow, like this, this is...
The Shaykh : I do not consider it, first of all, to be the leaning that is prohibited. Excuse me, I intended to point out something and I fell into this. This is one of the wonders. I am content. I said first, I do not consider this leaning, and I followed this with my saying "that is prohibited," whereas I began by saying "first" to say "second," that there is no prohibition by consensus, but rather there is in... from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) that he would eat while leaning. This is an action, meaning...
The questioner : A prohibition of disapproval.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : A disapproval of disapproval.
The Shaykh: He did, meaning he disliked this matter, not
has made hateful to you disbelief
وَكَرَّهَ إِلَيْكُمُ الْكُفْرَThe questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : The point is that eating while leaning, he (peace be upon him) did not eat while leaning, or it indicates that it is not among the etiquette of eating, but that does not mean it is forbidden, because prohibition requires a specific text in any case. It seems the question was incidental; what were we discussing?
The student : We were discussing the division of societies and...
The Shaykh : Where did our conversation lead us to, so that we can summarize?
The student : It will come; Shaykh Adnan will come and we spoke with him.
The Shaykh : Meaning we did not start anything now.
The questioner: No, no.
Source
www.al-albany.com
The Arabic text is copied verbatim from the original source, without any edits.