Ammena came up with this tag and is asking about the mosque or prayer area and is asking for 3 hadith to be posted on this subject.
She says,
Having spent a considerable amount of time at the masjid this month, masha’allah, reciting with my sisters and praying with my community I have realised a few things about people and how they pray [...] I got thinking yesterday, yes my mind does tend to wander!! about a blog post.. ‘if I could post ahadith around this masjid, what would they be?’ .. just 3… and im going to make it into a tag post [...]
Sooooo, here goes…
The immediate things that I notice when I go to any masjid or prayer room (musalla) in this country are shoes. Yes shoes! Shoe racks or shelves are always provided, I have never been to a masjid where they are not provided yet there is always a pile of shoes in the immediate entrance into the praying room for everyone to trip over. It’s an even bigger problem for mothers who wish to take the stroller with baby in, into the prayer room (I am referring to prayer rooms that have a corridor along the side where the stroller can sit and not dirty the carpets). Why can people not remove their shoes and place them on the shelf? I’m sure it would be far easier to find their shoes after prayer if they did this as the shoes get kicked around by people trying to step over them or wade through them. So, this reminds me of the hadith of ‘removing the harm’ from the public right of way:
It is narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira that the Messenger of Allah (may peace and blessings be upon him) said: Faith has over seventy branches or over sixty branches, the most excellent of which is the declaration that there is no god but Allah, and the humblest of which is the, removal of what is injurious from the path: and modesty is the branch of faith.
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In Muslim, it is reported on the authority of `Aishah (May Allah be pleased with her) that Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said, “Everyone of the children of Adam has been created with three hundred and sixty joints; so he who declares the Glory of Allah, praises Allah, declares Allah to be One, glorifies Allah, and seeks forgiveness from Allah, and removes stone, or thorn, or bone from people’s path, and enjoins good and forbids evil, to the number of those three hundred and sixty, will walk that day having rescued himself from Hell”.
The next thing I have noticed after my Jumu’ah prayer experience last week is the lateness of those coming to pray Jumu’ah prayer. As you know, I arrived at the mosque and found the ladies entrance locked so I had to resort to sitting outside the mosque for the duration of the prayer and khutbah whilst I waited for my husband. In that half hour I observed the men coming for prayer. We arrived just as the imam was arriving so it was only minutes before he began his khutbah and the carpark, even at that time, was almost empty. As I sat on the step to the ladies entrance I saw the carpark slowly filling and men walking from nearby villas, 5 minutes walk away. Many men were arriving towards the end of the khutbah and there seemed to be a rush as the iqama for the actual salah was called. Do they not know about the reward for arriving early in the mosque on a Friday? Please read:
Bukhari, Volume 2, Book 13, Number 51:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, “When it is a Friday, the angels stand at the gate of the mosque and keep on writing the names of the persons coming to the mosque in succession according to their arrivals. The example of the one who enters the mosque in the earliest hour is that of one offering a camel (in sacrifice). The one coming next is like one offering a cow and then a ram and then a chicken and then an egg respectively. When the Imam comes out (for Jumua prayer) they (i.e. angels) fold their papers and listen to the Khutba.”
Lastly, I was at the Eid prayer just over a week ago and had the pleasure of praying in congregation and then sitting for the khutbah and joining in the du’a that the imam made in the second part of his khutbah. I was most disappointed to hear the two ladies next to me talking virtually non-stop throughout the khutbah and even the du’a and there were many other ladies in the room also chatting instead listening and benefitting not only from the words of the imam but from the reward of listening:
Bukhari, Volume 2, Book 13, Number 56:
Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah’s Apostle (p.b.u.h) said,
“When the Imam is delivering the Khutba, and you ask your companion to keep quiet and listen, then no doubt you have done an evil act.”
I tag, in no particular order: OmLujain, Umalmujahid, UmmK, Redwan, Nabbu, UmmHibaat (again… just to heap the pressure on a bit more 
) UmmAdam and Brandy.
Rules as follows:
- Link back to the person who tagged you.
- List 3 hadith you’d like to pin up in your masjid and why.
- Tag some of your fellow bloggers by linking to them in your post and don’t forget to post a comment on their blog to let them know they’ve been tagged.
I also wonder how it is living in such a beautiful place as the Moroccan Atlas and if she ever misses Germany.
