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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Boycoting righteous Muslims for the Sunnah of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), with the example of straightening the rows

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The Shaykh : ... But these righteous people, as you see, the Sunnah has also been lost among them, and their worship has become mere traditions; they do not know what is correct from what is not. One thing brings to mind another for the sake of a lesson and admonition. Just now we prayed Maghrib, and the imam ordered the straightening of the rows. But, as usual, we are forced to say, unfortunately, it is just a custom and imitation. As for caring about straightening the rows as the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) did, and as the Rightly Guided Caliphs did—telling someone to move forward, or back, or to come closer, or to fill the gap—there is nothing of this, even in the Sacred Mosque or the Prophet’s Mosque. There is nothing but the words "Straighten your rows" and "Align your rows," whereas the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) used to say
Straighten your rows, or Allah will cause discord between your faces لتسونّ صفوفكم أو لا يخالفن الله بين وجوهكم
Make your rows straight, for straightening the rows is part of completing the prayer. سووا صفوفكم فإن تسوية الصفوف من حسن الصلاة
Sunan Ibn Majah 993Sahih (Darussalam)
or
Straightening the rows is part of the perfection of the prayer من تمام الصلاة
. And he (peace and blessings be upon him) used to straighten the rows as arrows are straightened. Today, this Sunnah is dead. The point is, may Allah reward him with good, he mentioned straightening the rows. So I looked to my right and found a middle-aged man, an "effendi" in the old Turkish expression, wearing a jacket and trousers. I pulled him by the trousers and said to him, "If you want to fill the gap." He said to me, "Put your trust in Allah." ... And I tell my brothers, I have learned things in this country, among them that "putting your trust in Allah" means "be quiet." Yes, indeed!
Al-Halabi : Like the phrase "Send blessings upon the Prophet," sometimes.

The Shaykh : Ah, he said to me, "Put your trust in Allah." I said to him, "Put your trust in Allah and follow the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)." He did not move an inch; he stayed where he was. What is the reason? Because Islam has become a foreign thing. The people who are praying no longer know the Sunnah, so they think that if I tell him to come closer, I am a stranger. That is, they do not want to leave a space to breathe and clear their throats. So this is the second hadith, a very great hadith:
for they will set right the corruptions caused in my sunna by people after my death الغرباء هم الذين يصلحون ما أفسد الناس من سنتي من بعدي
Mishkat al-Masabih 170Isnād Da'īf Jiddan (Zubair `Aliza'i)
Source www.al-albany.com

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