Aids to worship and prayer that are common in our times: Compass, Dhikr beads, Prayer mat, Mushaf stand, Phone apps:

The compass and prayer mat: Muslims can
turn any suitable place into a musallā (place of prayer) by deciphering the direction of
Makkah (Qiblah) and making sure that the
location is free from impurities. The Prophet
(ﷺ ) said: “The whole of the
world has been made for me a place of
purification and prayer.” Additionally, Muslims
are not permitted to pray the daily prayers in
a graveyard, nor bury anyone in a Mosque, as
that leads to grave worship. The Prophet
(ﷺ ) said: “God cursed the
Jews and Christians because they turned the
graves of their prophets and their righteous
into places of worship.” (Bukhaaree). Muslims
are not permitted to pray in toilet areas either
as that is unbefitting.

To find the direction of the Qiblah, Muslims
can use their knowledge of stars and their
relative locations, or the rising and setting of
the Sun, or quite simply, a compass.
Nowadays, most smart phones will have a
Prayer Time application that gives the user
the approximate prayer times and the
direction of the Qiblah. Many Muslims also
use a prayer mat to pray upon when they are
out and about. There is no harm in this (as
the Prophet himself would use a mat) so long
as one does not believe that the mat is a
necessary requirement for the prayer or that
by leaving its use, the prayer is somehow
deficient. Prayer mats are usually one meter
long by half a meter wide. Prayer mats can
be very decorative and elaborate, even have
pictures of the Ka’bah or the Prophet’s
mosque upon them. However, that should be
avoided because it leads to thinking that the
prayer is somehow better with these pictures
upon them, and one relies upon having these
“sacred” images on the prayer mats. Some
manufacturers put a deliberate design into
the patterns on prayer mats to “remind the
worshipper that only Allaah is perfect.” This
is a burden not needed in the religion and is
unnecessary, and regarded as a bid’ah
(forbidden innovation).

The Qur’an stand: The Qur’an or “Mus-
hafs” (written copies of the Qur’an) must
always be treated with great respect because
they contain the words of Allah as given
directly to the Prophet (ﷺ ).
Muslims should make sure they are purified
(with ablution/wudhu) before touching a Mus-
haf . Also stands are used to make sure that
the Qur’an never touches an unclean surface
or the ground. Muslims reciting or studying
the Qur’an will sit on the floor and put the
Qur’an on its stand in front of them so that
they can read it. Others simply use a cushion
or hold it in their hands – all of this is
acceptable.


Prayer beads (tasbeeh or dhikr beads) : Prayer
beads are used by some Muslims in private
prayer to help them count when they glorify
Allah or when “counting His names”. They
move one bead along the string each time
they say a name. Many strings have 99
beads, one for each of Allah’s names. Some
have 33 beads in which case Muslims go
around the string three times. They believe,
this aids them to focus and concentrate in
worship. However, the use of “prayer beads
(dhikr beads)” is an innovation (bid’ah ) not
practiced by the Prophet ( ﷺ )
nor his rightly guided Caliphs, and is therefore
forbidden to use them in worship.
Additionally, the mere repeating of Allah’s
names on their own was not a practice of the
Prophet and his companions. Rather, the dhikr
(remembrance of Allah) should be done in
accordance to the Sunnah (i.e. authentic
hadeeth).

The Five Authentic Modes of Dhikr After the
Salaah
Allah’s Messenger (salallaahu alaihi wassallam) would make tasbeeh (glorify Allaah), tahmeed (praise Him)
and takbeer (extol His greatness) after the obligatory prayers. The following is what is authentically reported from him:

1. Subhaanallaah: 33 times, al-
hamdulillaah: 33 times, Allaahu-
akbar: 33 times and finishing with a
single Laa ilaaha illallaah wahdahu laa
shareekalahu, lahul mulk walahul hamd wa
huwa ‘alaa kulli shayin qadeer. (Muslim,
597).

2. Subhaanallaah: 33 times, al-
hamdulillaah: 33 times, Allaahu-akbar: 34
(Muslim, 596).

3. Subhaanallaah: 33 times, al-
hamdulillaah: 33 times, and Allaahu-
akbar: 33 (Bukhaaree, 843, Muslim, 595).

4. Subhaanallaah: 10 times, al-
hamdulillaah: 10 times, and Allaahu-
akbar: 10 (Bukhaaree, 6329).

5. Subhaanallaah: 25 times, al-
hamdulillaah: 25 times, Allaahu-
akbar: 25 times, and Laa ilaaha
illallaah: 25 (An-Nasaa’ee 1351
authenticated by al-Albaanee)

Abdullaah bin ‘Amr said: I saw Allaah’s Messenger ( ﷺ) counting them on [the fingers of] his right hand. (Abu Dawood, 5065, at-Tirmidhee, 3410). One should alternate between the various modes.

It is not allowed to use threaded beads,
counters or stones to count dhikr as they all
are innovations – and the best guidance is
that of the Prophet.

An important question: Why is a compass
allowed and dhikr beads are disallowed in
Islam since the Prophet (ﷺ )
used neither? Aren’t they both, therefore
forbidden innovations?

Answer: This a good question. The fact is
that “Dhikr beads”, pebbles, seeds, etc, were
available in the time of the Prophet
(ﷺ ) and his Companions, yet
they never used them to count the
glorifications (dhikr) of Allah, rather they
shunned such methods even though they had
access to them. As for the use of a compass,
then the compass was not a tool available to
the Prophet and his Companions, so instead
they would use whatever was available to
them to determine the direction of the Qiblah
as occurs in the hadeeth of Jaabir (may Allah
be pleased with him) who said: “We were
with Allaah’s Messenger on a campaign, and
it became cloudy. We tried to determine the
qiblah and differed concerning it, so each
man prayed on his own, and each of us
marked the direction he faced so that he
could check it later. The following morning we
looked and found that we had prayed facing a
direction other than the qiblah. We told the
Prophet (ﷺ ) and he did not
instruct us to repeat it and he said: “Your
prayer is valid.”

(Reported by Al-Haakim and
others; and authenticated by Al-Abaanee in
Al-Irwaa, no. 291)

This hadeeth indicates that a Muslim should try his best with the means hehas to seek the Qiblah direction, and that could include, looking to the stars, the Sun, or
in these times a compass or a phone app.

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#yeyeman

^^ kai kai, smhfu....

@Topic

raising your hands upward (together) while supplicating is also an aid....

Empiree:
Why then Tesuba is sold in Saudi Arabia?. Why then it's widely sold worldwide in the Muslim world?. Why do they do "gold teeth" in Saudi Arabia?

#yeyeman

Ok.

AbdelKabir:
^^ kai kai, smhfu....

@Topic

raising your hands upward (together) while supplicating is also an aid....

if I get you right that's bidiya too right? . How about dua qunut in Saudi Arabia headed by sheik Sudais and everyone raised theirs hands upward (together) while supplicating?. That's exceptional, abi?.

Empiree:
if I get you right that's bidiya too right? . How about dua qunut in Saudi Arabia headed by sheik Sudais and everyone raised theirs hands upward (together) while supplicating?. That's exceptional, abi?.

brother, pls if you don't understand me, dont quote me.

AbdelKabir:


brother, pls if you don't understand me, dont quote me.

Clarify yourself.

Thats why i said "if I get you right". i:e If I understood you. Is that too much to allege?

Empiree:
Clarify yourself.

Thats why i said "if I get you right". i:e If I understood you. Is that too much to allege?

you should've simply asked for clarification, instead of trying to make fun of something that isnt funny.

Anyway, I was speaking with respect to a reliable hadeeth found in tirmidhi and Abu Dawood, which makes us understand that when you raise your hand when supplicating, Allaah feels shy if that supplication is not answered, so with that raising of hands is also an aid.

Islamic pictures, arabic texts, beads and some other stuff s are something I find ridiculous among Muslims.

You will see many Muslims taking all these to be sacred.