{"id":12299,"date":"2015-11-30T04:39:58","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T04:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/new\/?p=12299"},"modified":"2015-11-30T04:39:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T04:39:58","slug":"the-importance-of-salaah-with-jamaat-in-the-lives-of-our-akaabir-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/?p=12299","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Salaah with Jamaat in the Lives of our Akaabir (Part 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hadhrat Mufti Muhammad Shafee` Sahib\u00a0<em>(rahmatullahi alaih)<\/em> writes explaining the daily routine of his father Hadhrat Moulana Muhammad Yaseen Sahib\u00a0<em>(rahmatullahi alaih)<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After lunch, he would never have his\u00a0<em>qailulah<\/em> (siesta) at home. Rather, he would rest in a room adjacent to the musjid so that nothing may become an obstacle in the performance of Zuhr Salaah with\u00a0<em>jamaat<\/em>. This was his routine for his entire life. Towards the latter part of his life when he had become exceptionally weak, it became extremely difficult for him to leave the home in the severe heat and hot wind. Thereafter, on the insistence of some close ones he would rest at home. Despite this, he still deemed it necessary to go to the\u00a0<em>musjid<\/em> for Zuhr Salaah.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Punctuality on\u00a0<em>jamaat<\/em> Salaah was a distinctive feature in all the\u00a0<em>mureeds<\/em> of Hadhrat Moulana Gangohi<em>(rahmatullahi alaih)<\/em>. My father also placed a lot of emphasis on it according to the teaching of his\u00a0<em>shaikh<\/em>. He would not allow his\u00a0<em>jamaat<\/em> Salaah to be missed even at the time of heavy rain. When the path to the\u00a0<em>musjid\u00a0<\/em>would be dark and muddy because of the rain at the time of Esha and Fajr, he would go to the\u00a0<em>musjid<\/em> holding an umbrella in one hand and a lantern in the other.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once there was a heavy downpour at the time of Fajr. By then I had completed my formal studies and had begun teaching in Darul Uloom Deoband. I did not have the courage to go to the\u00a0<em>musjid<\/em> due to the torrential rain. Thus, thinking this to be a valid\u00a0<em>shar`ee<\/em> excuse I performed my Salaah at home. However, even in this condition my father went to the\u00a0<em>musjid<\/em>. Upon reaching the\u00a0<em>musjid<\/em> he found that there was no one else besides the\u00a0<em>mu\u2019azzin<\/em>. Hence, both of them performed Salaah with\u00a0<em>jamaat<\/em>.\u00a0When he returned home, he reprimanded me saying: \u201c<em>Masha Allah<\/em>! You have become an\u00a0<em>aalim<\/em>. You are able to quote the\u00a0<em>ahaadeeth<\/em> of\u00a0<em>rukhsat<\/em> (concession) but, tell me, if the Ulama continue looking for concessions, who will then practise upon\u00a0<em>azeemat<\/em>? These\u00a0<em>masaajid<\/em> will remain deserted.\u201d (<em>Mere waalid maajid<\/em>, p. 22)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hadhrat Qaari Siddeeq Ahmad Baandwi\u00a0<em>(rahmatullahi alaih)<\/em> once mentioned regarding his\u00a0<em>shaikh<\/em> Hadhrat Moulana Asadullah Sahib\u00a0<em>(rahmatullahi alaih)<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHadhrat Naazim Sahib\u00a0<em>(rahmatullahi alaih)<\/em> seldom travelled, fearing he would miss his Salaah with\u00a0<em>jamaat<\/em>and his\u00a0<em>takbeer-e-ula<\/em>. Once he had to go to Deoband to visit Hadhrat Qaari Muhammad Tayyib Sahib<em>(rahmatullahi alaih)<\/em>. Prior to the journey he drew up an itinerary for the journey. He first found out the times for the trains.\u00a0Those trains wherein there was a possibility of missing out Salaah with\u00a0<em>jamaat<\/em> were then avoided. It was his habit to travel only on those trains wherein he would not miss his Salaah with\u00a0<em>jamaat<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thus we travelled to Deoband in this manner. After meeting with Hadhrat Qaari Muhammad Tayyib Sahib<em>(rahmatullahi alaih)<\/em> we quickly returned. On our return he was also very careful that no Salaah was missed with\u00a0<em>takbeer-e-ula<\/em>.\u201d (Hayaat-e-Siddeeq &#8211; English, p. 105)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lessons-from-the-lives-of-the-pious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12300,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12299\/revisions\/12300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}