Asl Sifat Salat al-NabiNasir al-Din al-Albani

“Allah is the Greatest” (1),

nothing of it is to be pronounced aloud, and no wording for intention was ever transmitted from the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—or from any of his Companions in any circumstance. Those formulae that people have introduced at the start of ablution or prayer are not acts of worship at all, for niyyah (intention) is simply the will to perform an act. Anyone who has resolved to do something has already intended it; anyone who purposes a deed has already intended it. It is impossible for the deed to be detached from intention, because intention is the very reality of the resolve; its absence cannot be imagined once the act is present. Whoever sits down to perform wudu has intended wudu, and whoever rises to pray has intended the prayer. A rational person hardly ever performs any act—devotional or otherwise—without niyyah; it is an inescapable element of every deliberate human action and requires no exertion or special formulation.” End of the abridged citation. Having learned that voicing the intention was not part of the practice of the salaf al-salih (the righteous predecessors), you must follow their example, for they are the models to be emulated: “All good lies in following those who have gone before, and all evil lies in the innovations of those who came later.” One should pay no heed to the later scholars’ claims of istiḥsan (declaring something preferable), for introducing istiḥsan into acts of worship is to legislate a religion for which Allah has given no permission. Al-Shafii alluded to this in his famous dictum: “Whoever deems something good has legislated.” The Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—said: “Whoever introduces into this affair of ours that which is not from it, it shall be rejected.” Agreed upon. The hadiths forbidding innovation in religion are many, but citing them all would exceed the scope of this note; what we have quoted is sufficient for anyone whom Allah wills to guide. (1) There are several hadiths on this matter. The first is the lengthy hadith of Aisha, which we shall quote in full so that we can refer to it whenever the need arises. She said:
" الله أكبر" (١) ،...............................................................
تعلق لها باللسان، ولم يُنقل عن النبي ﷺ ولا أصحابه في النية لفظ بحال، وهذه العبادات التي أُحدثت عند افتتاح الطهارة والصلاة ليست من العبادة أصلاً؛ فإنما النية قصد فعل الشيء. فكل عازم على شيء؛ فهو ناويه، وكل قاصد لشيء؛ فهو ناويه، لا يُتصور انفكاك ذلك عن النية؛ لأنه حقيقتها؛ فلا يتصور عدمها في حال وجودها، ومن قعد ليتوضأ؛ فقد نوى الوضوء، ومن قام ليصلي؛ فقد نوى الصلاة، ولا يكاد العاقل يفعل شيئاً من عباداته ولا غيرها بغير نية؛ فالنية أمر لازم لأفعال الإنسان المقصودة، ولا يحتاج إلى تعب ولا تحصيل ". اهـ باختصار. فإذا علمت أن السلف الصالح لم يكن من هديه التلفظ بالنية؛ فيجب عليك أن تقتدي بهم؛ فهم القدوة: وكل خير في اتباع من سلف ... وكل شرفي ابتداع من خلف ولا يُلتفت إلى استحسانات المتأخرين؛ فإن الاستحسان في العبادات تشريع في الدين لم يأذن به الله، وقد أشار إلى ذلك الشافعي ﵀ بقوله المشهور: " من استحسن؛ فقد شَرَعَ ". وقد قال ﷺ: " من أحدث في أمرنا هذا ما ليس منه؛ فهو رد ". متفق عليه. والأحاديث في النهي عن الابتداع في الدين كثيرة لا يتسع المقام لإيرادها، وفيما ذكرنا كفاية لمن أراد الله له الهداية. (١) فيه أحاديث: الأول: حديث عائشة: وفيه طول؛ فنسوقه بتمامه؛ كي نحيل عليه حينما يقتضي الأمر ذلك. قالت:

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