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| Shahida |
| 11/11/02 at 09:09:55 |
| [slm] This is my first post for Ramadaan, so alto late, I would like to wish everyone Ramadaan Kareem! I just have a quick question about somethign I witnessed in the prayer room today. An elderly lady walked in and there were a few girls sitting at the back of the room reading Quraan, I was among them. My friend was on the other side of the room, and after the lady prayed she turned around and rudely told my friend that she should not sit with her feet facing Qiblah. She was so rude, sub7anAllah, and my friend closed her Quraan and left the prayer room in tears. Does anyone know about why it would be terrible to sit with your feet facing Qiblah? JazakumAllahu khairun in advance Wasalaam Shahida :-) |
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| jannah |
| 11/11/02 at 14:36:32 |
| [wlm] For some reason I feel like we discussed this before, but then again we've probably covered 99% of topics ;) I don't know of the exact fiqh of this issue, but I do know that some people, especially elders find it extremely disrespectful to put your feet towards the qiblah. In fact to put your feet pointing towards anyone. And as elder people sometimes they are harsh in trying to tell people not to do it. You can tell your poor friend that the woman probably was not deliberately trying to be mean, just trying to tell her something. |
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| UmmZaid |
| 11/16/02 at 20:01:43 |
| [slm] It's a matter of Adab. I've seen it addressed in some fiqh books, nothing I can name off hand though, besides a Hanbali book that is not fully translated into English (hence, not available). But although it is bad adab to sit with your feet facing the qibla, it is also bad adab to be harsh with people. Your friend could have been told about this adab in such a way that it didn't reduce her to tears and cause her to leave the room. :( |
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| Fatimah |
| 11/17/02 at 08:18:24 |
| [slm] I found this :) Question: Some people say that you are not allowed to point your feet at the qibla while sitting down in the mosque and that it is bad adaab. Does this have any basis or is it a cultural thing or is an addition? Answer: Praise be to Allaah. Shaykh ‘Abd-Allaah ibn Humayd (may Allaah have mercy on him) was asked about pointing one’s feet in the direction of the qiblah. He replied: There is nothing to say that this is not allowed, but some of the scholars regarded it as makrooh (disliked) to stretch the feet out towards the Ka’bah if one is close to it; they regarded this as makrooh but not emphatically so. But if there is a mosque somewhere else and there is a Muslim there who points his feet towards the qiblah, there is no harm in that and he is not doing anything forbidden in sha Allaah, as the scholars stated. And Allaah knows best. See Fataawa al-Shaykh Ibn Humayd, p. 144 Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen was asked about pointing the feet towards the qiblah whilst sleeping. He said: There is no blame on a person if he sleeps and his feet are pointing towards the qiblah. Fataawa al-Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen, 2/976. Islam Q&A Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid (www.islam-qa.com) |
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| Shahida |
| 11/18/02 at 02:28:32 |
| [slm] JazakumAllahu khairun for the replies! Wasalam Shahida :-) |
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