Work, Prayer & Problems: Some Practical Solutions -Mufti Abu Layth

[Music] can you please touch on the issue of praying at work it can be difficult for us living in the West what are the minimum conditions of prayer praying with shoes do you need a prayer mat can you combine you need one of those copies you need to have like a center parting hairstyle you need to put all this oil on you hear me just stand there you need to wear that I thought you know that you know when you were kids they used to have this utter this kind of read this this toxic radioactive smell on there that used to be probably like the cheapest up there people used to bring back from Saudi and if you worry

you could just never wash it off it's like you know people would be like generously can I give you some and you put it on and it's like oh my god now I just think of this thing and I can't take it off and then they like you can run but you can't hide alright so basically now the good news these people none of that is required thank god that's so you don't need to decimate your work environment every day

look right there you've got more here can you pray in the bathroom if you cover the toilet you cover the toilet wait otherwise if you don't cover it would your head it's okay I'm just doing so dude what's that was that the place with but it's okay guys I covered it you you've knocked yourself out now because you've kind of got the lid on there you've hit your head on it

a casualty in the break-in and if they go we had this strange hat on is it and it is really strange smell this knocked out well okay let's read on so we can cover all the the parts of this equation obviously our brother Tootie hood is having a difficult time at work right what about the minimum requirements will tissue and no lotta those of you don't know our Lata is lota is that kind of like I don't know that

kind of pot or kettle like instrument that is used for water to kind of clean your royal behind once you've gone to the toilet that you see in a lot of these toilets Muslim toilets you see oh they may have the bday oh the toilet shower right so the point is what if you don't have a lota and you just have to minimum prayer requirements when you are rushed for time there's quite a lot going on Tootie this in your bathroom at work there's a hell of a lot going on there this like I rushed for time

there's no water there's no space there's no right so right so what can we do look okay let's get this clear people you can combine prays to facilitate life for work and things like that so the praise you can combine of the horan Asad and multi Benicia so so let me just do that kind of like a lien parting the these to the Horan SR and Mosley Benicia I feel like one of those aliens from an alien movie so these two can be combined

and these two can be combined and so if by delaying the heart till you get home and praying it with us ah you'll make life easier you can do that if by bringing us our forward and praying at lunchtime because you could make life easier you can do that now if like in the UK if it's not of any help let's say you can combine them yes but you still need to do them at work if you can get a quiet spot that's excellent if you can't cut the question can you pray in the bathroom in the toilet you can I mean it's not that the prey

won't be invalid obviously depends because not all toilets have been created equally and not all toilets are used equally so I mean you have certain people like you made it you know what can I say okay the aiming expertise is a hot topic of discussion often known to the male species you see this this aiming can be you know the aim getting the aim right can be big problem all the

men on here will probably know what's going on they they probably like mmm like some words of wisdom but the aiming can be a problem so you might have a lot of people they've they've kind of decorated around the toilet bowl so so obviously that's something you don't want to be doing so dude kind of get up and he go he want the good news or the bad news he go well the good news is I've done my Salah the bad news is I've

quite interestingly managed to contract several urinary infections in my eyes and in my nose I mean it's a it was quite an experience I'll tell you so that's that's not what you want to do so but yes you can you can't pray in a toilet that's not the slice accepts how eyes acceptable anyway if the place is clean okay so that's that's just to make

that clear um I would say that you see if you can get a quiet place to pray somewhere hamdullah that's excellent you can maybe I don't know you have to assess wherever is that you praying I don't know your environment as far as doing voodoo is concerned yes I would say that there you can go with the photo of many scholars saying look you can wipe over socks fine if you'll create ease if you are struggling to do we do in a place I feel that in those circumstances you are opted it is permissible for you to do TM TM um is

just with a stone so if let's say let's say this is a stone right so you can't really account if I put that day it's kind of definitely fall trying to see if I've got a okay we're gonna have to go with this no you still can't see it right okay no you can't see okay so this is the stone people I'm gonna have to just use any object phone put it there now all you do is you just tap it or just rub your hands rub your hands on me that's not to be cut out and edited and to be misconstrued then you're in a disciplinary hearing at work and you

like well for most the appellate said just rub your hands I'm talking about the stone god dammit focus focus people focus right so you can rub your hands on your taffy the stone right and then so you can wipe over your face that's it tap on it again and then you just wipe over the forearms like that job done that is teaming people tailmon works the same for whistle oh we do and it is this so and

that is a substitute for whistle or whistle if time was running out or if there was no water or if you were ill or voodoo and there is can a gemstone be used is such an interesting question so Lee Hannam I don't actually know so much about gemstones any natural unless it is it I was gonna say okay let's see

people okay google our gemstones natural synthetic gemstones are physically identical to their natural gemstone counterparts that are mined from the earth they have the same physical properties and chemical composition as naturally occurring gemstones technology god I love it people right so right mind you yesterday I was with a friend we're

coming back and I said I'm not gonna say exactly the whole dialogue but I said I said ok and I asked for instructions I said what's the post give me directions to and it came up with something toe drop directions it just came up with something which I can't say anyway so that's when Google goes totally wrong but some gemstones that are natural yes you can do TM among them you can do TM them on stones pebbles sand earth anything natural of the earth connected

to the earth mainly I mean that's the agreed-upon general broadly agreed upon some people disagree but broadly agreed upon and then some people have gone to other extents of saying even trees and wood and but most people didn't accept stuff like that but they accepted all stones pebbles clay that kind of stuff okay so now so in my understanding that if it was going to inconvenience you to agreat it considerably you can do tear mom at work if you're struggling that's my understanding in many places in Morocco today you will

see most of the misdeeds I'm using Morocco as an example they all have a team on stone in there and you will see people like that are slightly odd not even that old that will come in just because like when it comes to washing the feet they kind of struggle a bit so they just go in and do Thea moment and that's actually quite common it's okay I hope I've answered most of that let's take some other questions people let's go for some rapid rounds last ten minutes should we say barn Eddie's saying what's the topic of today any and all it's a free-for-all how are

you gonna find stones and rocks in your office whose eyelash are you killing it yeah of course you know but you can carry a little pebble you can carry a little stone you can carry a gemstone that's a good one right so unless you're working in a cave you go don't worry oh I will just Islamic will or final testament hmm what do you mean by that

Imran Khan you can put one in about yeah you can carry a small little nice shiny pebbles you can carry that and some people have this understanding that it has to be a big rock Oh only big rock tell mum I only do big rock till moon I think look that's that's just stipulating without any that's there's no nothing in the Quran or some nether says it must be a big rock although many Foca have said cells so friends nails as their dead friends nails I don't know

what that is right okay the walls are stone the walls because if you see because in an office or at home more usually they will be painted and stuff like this so you won't have direct contact with something natural so you'd be more dealing with the paint and stuff like this free will what's my thought on freewill and destiny I've answered before that I believe we have choice although our choice may be limited in this world but we do have choice and the best way to understand this is like a game that's been pre-designed but every option now you

can't change the game but we you get to in the game is up to you as a player I think that is a pretty good answer for that right so what are some questions what would be weird to get caught with a stone in a suit pocket search my by the by the five-o by the cops no not if it's a payable I mean I'm not saying carry a rock it's like you got this big rock and you like

right okay I can explain officer he's like hmm you're like well this is actually for worship no I'm not a pagan I can explain that part too it's so right so this is I think look you can you can keep a small tiny pebble somewhere yeah I'm sure that the cops won't be cops won't be like what the

hell is this pebble doing in your pocket with police brutality the cop calls get him in a headlock get him taser this good-for-nothing right so