 Peace be upon you all, and welcome to the Ramadan edition of Ahkab S.O.S. Your Ramadan is going well, and you had a very, very good late of Qadr. You remember me and the sheikh in your da'az, insha'Allah. And now we are approaching Eid. Most of you will be busy with your preparations for the Yomul Eid, insha'Allah. I'm your host, most insha'Allah. And joining me, as always, is Sheikh Alima. Peace be upon you all. Peace be upon you all. Sheikh Alima, we were talking about Zakat al-Fitrah last time in our discussion. I have a few questions in regards to that, and that is, you were saying that the Zakat has to be paid quite soon. I mean, can you not pay the Zakat al-Fitrah later on? Can you not delay the payment? I seek refuge with Allah from Satan and the accursed. In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. And peace and blessings of Allah be upon Muhammad, his beloved, and his followers. May Allah be with you. With regard to the Zakat al-Fitrah, as I've mentioned in the previous episode, it must be prepared and be ready by the eve of the Eid al-Fitrah and paid by the morning before the Salat of Eid, which I'll mention later on. So basically, if somebody delays the payment for any reason, unable to reach to the centers or Islamic centers or the Alim and so forth, it becomes wajib and obligatory on him to make sure that the Zakat al-Fitrah reaches those who are in need as soon as he can. So delaying without purpose is not accepted. So you have to make sure that you deliver this Zakat to those who are in need and waiting for it. So it's wajib to hasten the payment of the Zakat to those who are in need. What if somebody forgot? Maybe someone was really, really busy with the Eid preparations. There was plans to travel to another country to go see family. He just got caught up in the moment and he had the intention of paying, but he sincerely forgot. Is he allowed to pay it back later on? Or does he wait for the next year and pay double? Well, they can still pay it, of course. It's wajib on them. However, they pay it with the intention of Urba. Urbat and Allah, Ta'ala. They pay it and they try as soon as possible to make sure that this amount is reached to that poor person or people who are in need. Ashayna, what about having people? You were saying that, you know, if people come to your house and they're under your roof between, you know, just before the Maghrib al-Adhan and into the night, if there is an unborn child, let's say, someone's wife is pregnant and heavily pregnant as in, you know, final stages, eight months, nine months pregnant. That child, does that actually count as a person that the zakat has to be paid upon? Well, the unborn child who was not born before the Eid al-Fattar, the eve of the Eid al-Fattar, and let's say that mother remains pregnant even after the Eid, then they don't have to pay any zakat al-Fattar for the unborn child. No, there's no zakat for them. Ashayna, are you saying that, you know, when we give the zakat al-Fattar, it should go to the mu'minin and it should go to the poor mu'minin. You also discussed about, you know, there's issues with sayers and non-sayers, so the right money has to go to the right people. What if there are no shia in this area? Where I live, there's no poor shia. Alhamdulillah, everyone's actually quite well off in doing well. Lakin, there are some muqallifin who are struggling and may need our help. Is it just for us to give the zakat al-Fattar to them? Well, the say it says that it is allowed to be given to the most tawaf of the non-shia, those who are unaware of the shia, believe the will of Ahlul Bayt, for example, they are living in remote areas, never knew about the Haqq, the truth. And, you know, overall, the message has not been reached to them, the true message of Ahlul Bayt, the true Islam of Ahlul Bayt. In this case, with the absence of the poor shia of Ahlul Bayt, who are following Ahlul Bayt and their shia and their poor, with their absence, then you can give it to them, that's fine. So, can you be more specific as in like, oh, they didn't know or they were unaware? I mean, so, if there is someone who is poor and requires such charity, but he knows about the Ahlul Bayt, he knows about the shia, he knows what they talk about and their claims, he doesn't accept what we can't help that brother out. Well, according to the say it, he mentions that he must be most tawaf, a person who is unaware of the truth, as I've said, but those who know, then we have to avoid it, of course, those who try to debate us and to refute our evidences and proofs, no, we have to avoid them, because mainly Zakat is paid to those who follow Ahlul Bayt, and in such case, yes, we can pay to those who are in need and their non-shia of Ahlul Khilaf, then that should be okay. Let's move our conversation now to the day of Eid, and also we know that a lot of us have to wake up very, very early in the morning in order to reach the prayer, the famous Turaqat prayer. This prayer itself, is this prayer wajib or mustahab? Well, with regard to the Eid prayers, be it Eid al-Fattar or Eid al-Adha, now the Salat al-Eidain, and let's, we talk about the Eid al-Fattar, is wajib in the presence of the Imam al-Masoum, alayhi s-salam, and we speak about the Imam al-Hujj al-Muntadar, al-Jalla, al-Farajah al-Sharif, and when he appears, it becomes wajib. So the Salat al-Eid becomes wajib when there is a Masoum, when there is infallible Imam within the people. So you're saying at the moment, it's not wajib until the Imam comes, the Imam of Masoum is present, then it is wajib upon all to actually participate in this prayer. For now, can we say it's mustahab, and can we pray faradah, or it has to be in jama'ah? Yes, in this case, in the time of the disappearance and the ghaybah of Imam al-Jalla, al-Farajah al-Sharif, in his occultation, we pray it as mustahab, and it's better to be done in jama'ah. So, although we don't have mustahab prayers to be prayed in jama'ah, the Eid al-Fatr and Eid al-Adha, as a Salat jama'ah, as a mustahab prayers, so we pray them as jama'ah, and also we can pray them as faradah. Shaikhullah, what time should this prayer be prayed? Should it be connected with any other Salat? You know, should we pray it after Fajr, pray Fajr first, and then straight away pray this prayer, or is it within a certain time period? There's three or four hour gap that you should pray it here. Can you pray it in the afternoon, in the evening? The mustahab I attend has three timings. There are three jama'ah, depending on which one you can make. There's three timings to attend. Is that allowed? Is that acceptable? Well, the timing of Salat al-Adha, be it the Fatr or the Abha, it begins from the sunrise, not the dawn or the Fajr time. From the sunrise, you can begin praying Salat al-Aid. Up to the midday, noon time, Adhan al-Dohr, exactly. So you have these five, six hours, let's say, of time period, where you can pray Salat al-Aid, and that's what we see. Wherever you go to the Islamic centers, most of the shrines of Ahlul Bayt, you see that they repeat the Salat al-Aidain until just before the Adhan al-Dohr. So they stop almost 20 minutes, half an hour before the Adhan al-Dohr. They prepare for the Adhan, they read Quran, for example, and then they start the Adhan al-Dohr. So they try to make sure that everyone attended because it's a mustahab and desirable act on the day of Aid that all people gather and share this joy of fasting the whole month and gaining the benefits and bountains from this great month. So they pray it in Jama'ah, which is mustahab, and they have the time till the Adhan al-Dohr. That's it. Sheikh Na'a, how do you perform such a prayer? As in, are there specific suras that must be recited and specific da'as? Or is it quite flexible, as in you can pick and choose which da'a you'd like to recite, which sura you'd like to recite? Salat al-Aid is basically made of two rak'as, mainly. In the first rak'a, after reading the Hamd and sura, you begin to do five Takbirat. And after each Takbirah, you begin with the da'a, the da'a of the day of the Aid in the prayer in which you read the da'a, for example, Allahumma ahl kibriyai wal-Azamah, wa ahl al-Judwa jabarut, to the end of the da'a. So in each Takbirah, when you finish the Takbirah, Allahu Akbar, you raise both hands for the Qunoot. And you begin to read the da'a, which I just mentioned at the beginning of it. And then you say Allahu Akbar. And again, second Takbir, up to the fifth Takbirah, you read the da'a in the Qunoot. And then afterwards you say Allahu Akbar, and you go to the rak'a. So that's the first rak'a. The second rak'a is only four Takbirah. Again, after the reading of Surah al-Hamd and sura, you raise your both hands. And again, you read the da'a of the Aid. And till the fourth Takbirah. So you do four Takbirah after each Takbirah, the da'a. And then when you finish the fourth Takbirah and the da'a, and then you do the Takbirah, and you go to the rak'a and sujood, and you finish your Salat al-Aid as simple as that. With regard to reading which surahs, initially it is a mustahab praise, and you're allowed to choose any surah. But the ones which are better mentioned in the Rasala Amaliyah of the Sayyid, to read the first option is to read Surah al-Shams in the first rak'a, and in the second rak'a, to read Surah al-Ghashiyah. Or the second option, what to read in these two surahs, is to read for the second option, in the first rak'a, Surah al-A'la, and in the second rak'a, to read Surah al-Shams again, so it's your option, your choice, to either choose the first option of the surahs or the second option, it's up to you. Okay, that's it. Sheikh, what about the khutbah at the end? Is this actually part of the prayer itself? Is it just tradition? Or is this actually mandatory that there is a khutbah after the prayer? Well, it is mustahab in the time of the occultation of the Imam, Al-Jalla Farajuh Al-Sharif, and it's ghaibah for the Imam who is leading the prayers, the Eid prayers, to read two khutbahs, two khutbahs, and to mention in that khutbah the Ahqam of the Zakat al-Fatrah and so forth. And of course, I'm sure you've seen that between two khutbahs, they sit down. So it's mustahab to sit down to have a short break. And then the Imam stands up again and he resumes the second khutbah and reads the second khutbah. That's mustahab, in overall, to have the two khutbahs read by the Imam or by anybody else. The khutbah could be read by the Imam who leads the prayers or anybody else who can come forward and speak. Only speaks Arabic or Farsi. And you bring somebody who speaks English to read the khutbah. That's fine, that's fine. It's up to the center itself or the mosque itself to decide who reads the khutbah. That's fine. And do we actually have to stay for the khutbah? Can we do the prayer and start to leave or do you think that no, you must stay to complete the prayer? The whole process of Salat al-Aid is mustahab. So it's up to you. You want to stay, you want to go, it's up to you. This is all part of the Salat al-Aid, the khutbah itself. And also, Sheikh, being a mustahab prayer, does it actually require wudu? Of course. One of the conditions, the main conditions of Salat al-Aid or the mustahab Salat is to have wudu and to be in purity. Again, the same conditions for the wudu we mentioned, the Salat we mentioned, everything also covers the Salat al-Aid as well. Sheikh, I've also noticed that before this prayer is read, there's also, there's no adhan and also there's takbirat. Can you explain a little bit about this? Yes, basically, because it's a mustahab prayer, there's no adhan for it for Salat al-Aid. So the Imam, who commenced to lead the prayers, would say, as a call for the prayer of Salat al-Aid. And then, you have something before, prior to the start in the commence of Salat al-Aid, and even the Sayyid said, it's a mustahab that you do this after the Salat of Maghrib and Isha of the eve of the Aid. So the night before the Aid. It is a mustahab to say these takbirat, as you mentioned, and also to say these takbirat after Salat al-Fajr in the morning, early morning. So when you pray Salat al-Fajr, to say these takbirat. And then, even the Sayyid says, wakada ba'at Salat al-Fatr, even after the Salat al-Fatr, to say these takbirat, mustahab. To say, for example, the following takbirat, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, La ilaha illa Allah, Allahu Akbar, Walillahi l-hamd, Alhamdulillahi ala ma hadana, Walah shukru ala ma awlana. Mustahab, to say it, as I said. Exactly. I'm sure you've seen this when you go to the mosque or the center and they sit before the Salat of Eid. They wait the Imam to come. They start to recite this takbirat together, for example. This mustahab in over all. And Shaikhna, where should the Salat of Eid, where should it be prayed? Is there any recommended area for it to be prayed in? Well, the mustahab here, as the Sayyid mentioned in his Rasala, that it's mustahab that you perform Salat of Eid in the desert in open land, in other words. Okay. So, where, you know, you have open sky in other words. Okay. Because we do it, in London, we do have prayer in the park. Exactly. A lot of people will do it and they invite everyone to the park. Exactly. I have the Eid prayer in the park. Yes, mustahab. Okay. But it doesn't mean that you can't pray it in the mosque or Islamic center with the ceiling covered. You know, that's fine. It's just mustahab. It's just for the more rewards that you'll get if you pray in open space. And is there any other mustahabat in regards to the Salat? And of course, mustahab, one of the main mustahabat is to do Ghusl of the Eid. Before going to the Salat of Eid, you do Ghusl, Ghusl, and you go out to the Eid prayers with purity and with pure heart, of course, after fasting the whole month of Ramadan. Okay. Sheikhna, any last words or any advice, a message you'd like to give to the people, the viewers? Initially, may Allah accept all the deeds in this holy month of Ramadan and may Allah gives us the opportunity for the next coming years. This Taufiq that we gain the opportunity to fast again every year, insha'Allah, with complete and full health, bodily and mentally and spiritually, insha'Allah. And we have to learn a lot from this holy month that we refrain from the haram, refrain from the bad manners and practice morality and better ekhlaq, insha'Allah. And we try to ask Allah SWT that we accept our deeds and deeds with the blessings of Salat Muhammad Wali Muhammad. As-Sent, Allah SWT. As-Sent, sheikhna. Thank you very much, sheikhla. Thank you for everything. Thank you to all the viewers for joining us on Ekhlaq M.S.S. Ramadan Special, insha'Allah. This Ramadan edition benefited you and helped you with your fasting, insha'Allah. And wishing you all from myself and from sheikh, a very, very glorious, a very, very prosperous Eid, insha'Allah. And may all your amal be accepted, insha'Allah. Insha'Allah, Ekhlaq M.S.S.S.S. will be back with myself, most insha'Allah, and sheikh Ali Mash, insha'Allah. Until then, As-salamu alaikum, rahmatullah, wa barakatuhu.