SUHUR [THE PRE-DAWN MEAL] => Unit-2 THE CALL TO PRAYER SHOULD NOT STOP YOU FROM TAKING SUHUR Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), reported that Bilal used to pronounce the call to prayer at night, so Allahs Messenger (peace be upon him) said: Carry on taking your meals till Ibn Umm Maktum prnounces the call to prayer, for he does not pronounce it till it is dawn. [Recorded by al-Bukhari] Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with him), reported that the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him), had two muadhdhin: Bilal and Ibn Umm Maktum. The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him), said: Bilal proclaims the call to prayer at the end of the night, so eat and drink till Ibn Umm Maktum pronounces it. Ibn Umar added: And the gap between their calls to prayer was not more than the time spent in ones getting down and the others climbing (the minaret). [Recorded by al-Bukhari and Muslim] We learn from this tradition that in the days of the Prophet (peace be upon him) there used to be two adhan in the morning .The first was meant to warn the people who were taking the suhur meals that the time for the suhur was about to finish and they should make preparation for fajr prayer. Soon after that there was a second by another, which signified that the time for food was finished and people should attend to the prayer. So far, the question of time between the two calls is concerned, the scholars have stated that after announcing the call, Bilal used to be engaged in prayer, etc., and waited for the daybreak. When the time for the daybreak drew near, he would then come down and inform Ibn Umm Maktum who would then make ablutions, and proceed the call at the beginning of the daybreak. WHEN ANY OF YOU HEARS THE SUMMONS TO PRAYER WHILE HE HAS A VESSEL IN HIS HAND The Prophet (peace be upon him), said: When any of you hears the summons to prayer while he has a vessel in his hand, he should not lay it down till he fulfils his need. [Reported in the Sunan of Abu Dawud] ¤>> Shaykh Muhammad Nasir ud-Din al-Albani explained: Indeed there is an authentic statement reported from the Prophet (peace be upon him), which shows the ease afforded by Islam, to be counted as one of the principles of Islam, which the Muslims are proud of, especially with regard to the matter of fasting, since Allah (the Mighty and Majestic), concluded the verses concerning fasting with His Saying: Allah desires ease for you, and He does not desire to make things difficult for you. So from this ease is the Prophets saying: If one of you hears the call to prayer and the vessel is in the hand of one of you, then let him not put it down until he fulfils his need from it. The vessel containing food, whether it be milk, some drink, water, anything which a person may take as suhur, and he hears the call to prayer, then he should not say that the food is forbidden due to the call being heard. The person who has had enough, it is not allowed for him to then have anymore, whether it be a drink, or some fruit, when he has had his fill of whatever he was eating. But as for the one who hears the call and he has not yet taken what he needs from the food and the drink, then the Messenger (peace be upon him), made that lawful for him. So he clearly said, in the clear and eloquent Arabic language: If one of you hears the call to prayer and the vessel is in the hand of one of you, then let him not put it down until he fulfils his need from it. And what is meant here by the call is the second call. It is not the first, which they wrongly call that of imsak (i.e. withholding). We must know that there is no basis for calling the first call, the call for withholding (imsak). The second call is when we are to withhold, and this is clearly stated in the Quran, since Allah (the Mighty and Majestic) says: And eat and drink until the white thread of dawn becomes clear to you from the black thread of the night. ¤ ¤ ¤ UNIT-3 is Loading soon in sha Allahu Taala. Admin. By
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