Certain prayer postures haram?

Assalaamualaikum

We pray as the Prophet(saw) prayed. The Prophet (saw) has said "pray as you see me praying" (cannot find this hadith source at the moment, but its sahih insha allah).


Regarding looking at the sky:

Volume 1, Book 12, Number 717: Sahih Bukhari

Narrated Anas bin Malik:

The Prophet said, "What is wrong with those people who look towards the sky during the prayer?" His talk grew stern while delivering this speech and he said, "They should stop (looking towards the sky during the prayer); otherwise their eye-sight would be taken away."

Volume 1, Book 12, Number 718:

Narrated 'Aisha:

I asked Allah's Apostle about looking hither and thither in prayer. He replied, "It is a way of stealing by which Satan takes away (a portion) from the prayer of a person."

Regarding Hands:
Still searching for the hadith for you, but there is no such thing of keeping hands outstretched.

Wassalaam.

Assalaamualaikum,

How to place the hands in prayer:

It was narrated from Waa�il ibn Hujr (may Allaah be pleased with him) that he saw the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) raising his hands level with his ears when he started to pray and saying takbeer, then he wrapped himself in his garment and placed his right hand on his left. Narrated by Muslim, 401. 

The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) passed by a man who was praying, and who had placed his left hand on his right hand. He grabbed his arms and put his right hand on his left.� (Ahmad, no. 12671)

And the hands are placed over the chest. So Insha Allah we should follow his sunnah as much as we can.
Wassalaam

Your welcome!

farhan asi.

Hope you will not mind if I answer your question. I don't know who is Dr. Naik as I have not heard much about him in the region that I live, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.

Salaath in Qur'aan means prayers, an act of worshipping God Almighty. Qur'aan describes the act as standing (Qaim), bowing down or kneel (Ruku) and Sajda (Prostration with forehead on the ground).

You must have read the verses that show all those acts carried out by Maryam (Mary), Zakariah (Zeccharias) and others.

Prophet was the one who taught people the prayers and he did it by standing, then bowing down/kneeling, prostration and sitting down.

Thus our dear Prophet combined all the three acts of worshipping God Almighty in the prayers that he taught and did. The basic three acts remain the same in all sects of Islam. 

It does not matter whether one hangs down the hands straight or one folds them across. The three acts of standing before God, bowing down and prostration are the key acts of prayers in Islam.

For Maryam (Mary), the verse tells us that God told her,"Ya Maryam-uqnuti lay-rabbakay, wasjudi warka-ee ma-ar raakayeen"

"O'Maryam,be devout to your Lord, do the sajda and follow the people who bow before God."

For Zakaria, the verse tells us that he used to stand in the Mihrab, praying to God.(Wa howa qaa'imuin-yussallee fil-mihraab".

In Surah Hajj, "Ya Ayyuhal-lazeena aama-nur-ka-oo wasjudoo wa'abudoo rabbakum.................."

Hope this helped.

BMZ

 

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