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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Speaking about following the imam in prayer and saying the ameen.

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The Shaykh:
and pray standing if he prays standing and pray sitting (all of you) if he prays sitting وإذا سجد فاسجدوا ، وإذا صلى قائمًا فصلوا قيامًا ، وإذا صلى جالسًا فصلوا جلوسًا
Sahih al-Bukhari 689
; so this principle means that it is forbidden for the follower to contradict his imam in everything he follows him in,
The Imam is to be followed إنما جُعِلَ الإمام لِيُؤتَمَّ به
Sahih al-Bukhari 1236
in everything. Then, the examples mentioned in the full hadith are for illustration, not for limitation. This is the point... to be careful about, and it is not the specific intent... in itself. The specific intent is that part of following him is not racing ahead of him in any of the pillars of prayer or its obligations, and... .
The hadith came at the end, which is the main point of this... And I may be, like the present audience, like the old Arabic proverb: "Like the date carrier to Hajar"; meaning, I am not presenting to you knowledge that you need to learn, but rather, at least as He - the Exalted - said:
So remind فَذَكِّرْ
What I say is:
if the reminder should benefit; إِنْ نَفَعَتِ الذِّكْرَى
[Al-A'la 87:9]
, the other verse:
Indeed, the reminder benefits the believers فَإِنَّ الذِّكْرَى تَنْفَعُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ
; I mean His saying - peace and blessings be upon him - :
When the Imam says Amin, say Amin, for if anyone’s utterance of Amin synchronnises with that of the angles, he will be forgiven his past sins. إذا أمَّنَ الإمام فأمِّنوا ؛ فإنه مَن وافق تأمينُه تأمينَ الملائكة غُفِرَ له ما تقدَّم من ذنبه
Sunan Abi Dawud 936Sahih (Al-Albani)
, so in the Maghrib prayer, our state was different from our state in the prayer... in the Maghrib prayer when our brother Abu Malik prayed with us and the people behind him said the ameen, we heard the sound... he raced ahead of the imam in saying the ameen and raced ahead of the imam for all the followers; because they said the ameen after his ameen. This is a contradiction... to His saying - peace and blessings be upon him - :
When the Imam says Amin, say Amin إذا أمَّنَ الإمام فأمِّنوا
Sunan Abi Dawud 936Sahih (Al-Albani)
.
The reality today in all the lands of Islam - with great regret - is that racing ahead of the imam is such that the imam barely finishes reciting:
And not those who go astray. وَلَا الضَّالِّينَ
before the congregation stands up with the ameen. The imam has not yet started with
Ameen آمين
, he has not yet said:
And not those who go astray. وَلَا الضَّالِّينَ
, let alone started with
Ameen آمين
; so the reminder now is that the follower who prays behind the imam must first: have his heart with his imam's recitation, his heart not wandering from the recitation behind... and... his trade, his family, his children, and the like; no, if his heart is with the imam's recitation, when the imam says:
And not those who go astray. وَلَا الضَّالِّينَ
, he - that is, the follower - holds himself back and waits for when the imam will say:
Ameen آ
first, then
Ameen آمين
, then he starts with him:
Ameen آ
with
Ameen آ
,
Ameen آ
the follower after
Ameen آ
the one being followed... after the imam.
So you should note this observation; because the entire Islamic world is in heedlessness, and this - with regret - is due to the negligence of the scholars, and I do not say the preachers. The preachers today - with regret - most of them have not been given much knowledge, what can we say? Except a few. The scholars, all of them, have not been given much knowledge except a little. Our Lord said about all of humanity:
And mankind have not been given of knowledge except a little." وَمَا أُوتِيتُمْ مِنَ الْعِلْمِ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا
[Al-Isra 17:85]
. Well, if this is the state of the people of knowledge, then the students of knowledge who are called preachers today have only a very little of what the scholars have. If the people of knowledge have been heedless and have not paid attention to this clear phenomenon of contradicting this command:
When the Imam says Amin, say Amin إذا أمَّنَ الإمام فأمِّنوا
Sunan Abi Dawud 936Sahih (Al-Albani)
; then I hope that some of the students of knowledge will be better than some of the scholars. I hope for this, and that is in paying attention first to this hadith, and applying it practically by himself, and then being a caller to this which he has become aware of or has been alerted to, implementing His saying - peace and blessings be upon him - :
Let the one present convey it to the one absent فليُبلِّغ الشاهدُ الغائبَ
,
Let the one present convey it to the one absent فليُبلِّغ الشاهدُ الغائبَ
; so here you have been conveyed the message, and perhaps the saying of Allah - Mighty and Majestic - has come true in you:
And remind, for indeed, the reminder benefits the believers. وَذَكِّرْ فَإِنَّ الذِّكْرَى تَنْفَعُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ
[Adh-Dhariyat 51:55]
... .
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