What is the ruling on covering the walls?
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The questioner: O Shaykh, regarding covering the walls, there is a hadith in the fifth volume where the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) prohibited it.
The Shaykh : Regarding what?
The questioner: "The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) prohibited covering the walls." Covering the walls, covering the walls.
The Shaykh: Covering the walls.
The questioner: Yes, indeed. Of course, there is a part of the wall, of course the lower or upper part. Does the prohibition include it? Sometimes the curtain placed on the window or the shutter, some of it goes down to the floor, the simple part.
The Shaykh: It is all extravagance.
The questioner: It is all extravagance.
The Shaykh: This should be.
The questioner: To the extent of the need.
The Shaykh: To achieve privacy. As for covering the walls, this is disliked in the Shari'ah, whether it is a solid wall or an open one. This open one, we cover it to the extent that achieves what covers it, but we look up and down; it is extravagance and a waste of money.
Abu Layla: How, Muhammad?
The Shaykh: How do you cover this?
Abu Layla: I mean... it is broken?
The student : ... .
Abu Layla: Sami, go, what do you want, what else, let him bring it, how? That you try to fix it on the basis that you have oil with you, I saw, our Shaykh, it will become a place for chickens under the tank.
The Shaykh: A canopy.
Abu Layla: A canopy, then they stand on the legs, which are the bases...
The Shaykh: If it is something that is not said by opinion or independent legal reasoning such that the report stopping at a Companion is said to be: "It is a report stopping at a Companion in the ruling of a report traced to the Prophet"... but here there is a detail: if there are reports stopping at Companions and none of them is in the ruling of a report traced to the Prophet, but they are in places of independent legal reasoning, reports stopping at Companions plus a report traced to the Prophet gives the report traced to the Prophet strength, because fiqh says that if there were not... What happened, you changed the pipe now.
The questioner: ... the permissibility.
The Shaykh: Tell us what is not permissible.
The Shaykh : Regarding what?
The questioner: "The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) prohibited covering the walls." Covering the walls, covering the walls.
The Shaykh: Covering the walls.
The questioner: Yes, indeed. Of course, there is a part of the wall, of course the lower or upper part. Does the prohibition include it? Sometimes the curtain placed on the window or the shutter, some of it goes down to the floor, the simple part.
The Shaykh: It is all extravagance.
The questioner: It is all extravagance.
The Shaykh: This should be.
The questioner: To the extent of the need.
The Shaykh: To achieve privacy. As for covering the walls, this is disliked in the Shari'ah, whether it is a solid wall or an open one. This open one, we cover it to the extent that achieves what covers it, but we look up and down; it is extravagance and a waste of money.
Abu Layla: How, Muhammad?
The Shaykh: How do you cover this?
Abu Layla: I mean... it is broken?
The student : ... .
Abu Layla: Sami, go, what do you want, what else, let him bring it, how? That you try to fix it on the basis that you have oil with you, I saw, our Shaykh, it will become a place for chickens under the tank.
The Shaykh: A canopy.
Abu Layla: A canopy, then they stand on the legs, which are the bases...
The Shaykh: If it is something that is not said by opinion or independent legal reasoning such that the report stopping at a Companion is said to be: "It is a report stopping at a Companion in the ruling of a report traced to the Prophet"... but here there is a detail: if there are reports stopping at Companions and none of them is in the ruling of a report traced to the Prophet, but they are in places of independent legal reasoning, reports stopping at Companions plus a report traced to the Prophet gives the report traced to the Prophet strength, because fiqh says that if there were not... What happened, you changed the pipe now.
The questioner: ... the permissibility.
The Shaykh: Tell us what is not permissible.
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