The Shaykh’s warning about some of the mistakes of the worshippers.

The Shaykh : Every worshipper who prays behind the imam in the loud prayers must pay attention when the imam finishes reciting the last verse of Surat al-Fatihah, , until the imam finishes by stopping the noon. In this case, the follower assumes that he is the one reciting, and he must renew his breath. The imam says: , and the imam takes a breath. The people behind him say "Ameen" to what? To his "Ameen"? He has not yet said "Ameen"! The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: . Therefore, we must be deliberate and hold our breaths—as they say—when the imam says: , we take a breath, and we say "Ameen" with him. This is the first point, and the time seems tight!
The other point: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) forbade tucking in the garment and the hair in prayer. So it is not permissible for any of us to pray while his sleeve is tucked in. One of us performs wudu, rolls up his garment, and then comes and enters prayer while his garment is tucked in; he must let it hang down.
Do not expose yourself! .

The questioner : Shaykh, you exposed him...

The Shaykh : No, I advised him—O Shaykh—I did not expose him.

The questioner : There is no one else but him! ...

The Shaykh : As for me, if I see something contrary to the Sunnah and I point it out, am I the one who exposed him? But the one who says this is the one who exposed him himself.

The questioner : He is just covering for him, O Shaykh, so that no one sees him.

Another questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade tucking in the garment and the hair. How is tucking in the hair? Tucking in the garment is clear, and this is the most common form, but it has other forms. A person might be wearing a jilbab and lift it up and put it here, intentionally, meaning he does it on purpose, or something like that. So when he comes to pray, he must let it hang down, and so on. As for tucking in the hair.

The questioner : Shaykh, before I go... the hair, this is not considered part of...

The Shaykh : Part of what?

The questioner : Part of what I mentioned about the garment.

The Shaykh : Where is it?

The questioner : Like this. Some of them pray, and when they want to prostrate, they do this.

The Shaykh : No, tucking in the garment is folding it, like this. But if you lift it like this... this is not called tucking in.

The questioner : Okay, Shaykh, is the issue... what is the wisdom?

The Shaykh : How?

The questioner : What is the wisdom?

The Shaykh : Perhaps I heard you say: Are we allowed to ask what the wisdom is? If you said that, you have hit the mark. You should not ask, because the people who have become accustomed to asking about the wisdom of legislation—we have been dealing with them for many years—have reached the point where they do not accept a legal ruling unless it is accompanied by an explanation of its wisdom. And the ruling’s wisdom is known only to Allah, except for a little of it. So if we accustom ourselves to seeking the wisdoms of legislation, it will go... if Allah wills, it will diminish the importance of faith in the unseen, . They said this, but it means they mentioned the wisdom. But I do not like to enter into these topics; because it may be an opinion, it may be correct, it may be wrong. For example, they said that one should prostrate with his whole body, and in that—also—his garment, so when he tucks it in like this, it means preventing something that is upon him from prostrating with him, and likewise the hair.
They were in the pre-Islamic age of ignorance—and they still are today!—an Arab custom: they lengthened their hair, men as well as women. So they would sometimes gather it at the back of their heads, or on the tops of their heads, and it is said of such a thing that the hair is tied up. So the Messenger (peace be upon him) forbade that, and if one wants to enter prayer, he must untie it. Until it came in another authentic hadith that the Messenger (peace be upon him) passed by a man who was praying and his hair was tied up, so he untied it and said: , meaning he does not conduct himself with Allah (Mighty and Majestic) by placing the right hand with the left hand. So the summary is this is a reminder, and the reminder benefits the believers.

The questioner : Shaykh—pardon me—regarding tying up the hair; even for women?

The Shaykh : The hadith came regarding the man, as you heard. In the area of—this is from the category of independent legal reasoning, not from the category of explicit text—in the area that women are also like that, and this is what is most likely, but by derivation, not by explicit text; because the operative cause is one, which is that you prostrate with your whole... your body, or does part of it not prostrate? And from that is your hair, that it does not prostrate with you. And Allah knows best.

The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.