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Shaykh Muqbil: The Harms of NOT Praying In Your Shoes…
Ash-Shaykh, Al-Allaamah, Al-Imaam, Muqbi bin Haadi Al-Waadi’ee (Rahimahullah) has a very good chapter in his beneficial book ‘Shar’iyatus-Salaah Fiin-Ni’aal’ (The Legality of Performing The Prayer in shoes) page 24-26, where he (rahimahullah) speaks about the harms of a person not acting upon this Sunnah and abadoning it, so he then speaks about what he has witnessed and heard about what happened to those who wanted to act upon this Sunnah:
“The Harms of Abandoning Praying in the Shoes
Firstly, from the greatest of harms of leaving off performing the prayer in shoes is that the majority of Muslims have become ignorant of this Sunnah and they see that the one who prays in his shoes has committed a great crime…
And I have heard whilst I am in Yemen of a keeper of Masjid saying: “A man who was once in Saudi and then returned to his country, when he wanted to enter the Masjid I said to him: ‘By Allah, if you enter the Masjid with your shoes I will break your leg!’”
And I have seen in the Haram of Makkah underneath the microphone, a group of people who all came together against one man refuting him because of his prayer in shoes, so one of them then said intending the one praying in his shoes: “He’s a devi!l”…
And I have seen whilst being in ‘Beeshah’ a man who apparently has the signs of good and righteousness upon him refuting somebody who is praying in their shoes, so it was said to him: ‘It is Sunnah’, so he then said: ‘ I seek refuge with Allah from this Sunnah!’…
And that which is greater than all of that mentioned, is that some of our brothers for the sake of Allah wanted to act upon this Sunnah in the Haram of Madinah, so the people severely refuted him. (Footnote from the book Pg: 25: He was taken to the office of the Haram and a pledge was taken from him that he will not pray in his shoes.)
And all of this is because of the lack of action done by the people of knowledge, if the people of knowledge were to act upon this Sunnah, then we wouldn’t have to gather all of these hadiths and spread it between in the people.
And another reason for all of this, is the negligence of the people with regards to the books of the Sunnah, if they only returned back to the books of Sunnah then they would have no doubts regarding the legality of performing the prayer in the shoes and that it is a Sunnah which has been ordered to be acted upon.
Secondly, from the harms of leaving off praying in the shoes, is that those who are praying all leave their shoes in a place, so that can possibly cause the rows which have been ordered to be straightened to then be crooked and we have certainly witnessed the crookedness of the rows in the Haram of Makkah because of the piling of shoes…
Thirdly, from the harms also is that a lot of Muslims leave off looking at their shoes at the doors of the Masjid, because they do not intend to pray in them anyway, so probably there could be some dirt which is on his shoes, so then if he places his shoes in the Masjid, the dirt drops insideMasjid and all of that is because of abandoning the sunnah which is looking at the shoes by the door of the Masjid and wiping off the dirt with sand if there is any dirt on it.
Fourthly, that the one who is praying can be afraid of his shoes being stolen, so he becomes disturbed whilst he is in prayer, a disturbance which eliminates his khushoo’ and al-khushoo’ is the essence of the prayer as Allah, the Most High said:
“Indeed the believers are successful, those that in their prayer submit humbly” – 23 Al-Mu’minoon:1-2”
Summarized and translated by meaning: Younus bin Muhammad As-Somaalee
Allah, azza wa jal, knows best
May Allah forgive him, his family and the rest of the Muslims.
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