Schedule for the Halqahs [learning sessions] of the weekly Ijtima’ (overseas), 11 February 2021

   ۔1Short Bayan on different topics: 5 minutes

   ۔2Memorising Du’a: 5 minutes

   ۔3Fikr-e-Madinah: 5 minutes

   ۔4Total duration: 15 minutes

Remaining Sunnahs and etiquettes of wearing shoes

A’la Hadrat Imam Ahmad Raza Khan رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه states: Whenever you go to the Masjid, remove the left foot from the shoe first and place it on the shoe, then remove the right foot from the shoe and enter the Masjid, and if you are outside the Masjid, take out the left foot and place it on the shoe, then take out your right foot and wear your right shoe and then wear the left shoe. (Nuzhat-ul-Qaari, vol. 5, p. 530)

   ۔1Men should wear male shoes and women should wear female shoes.

   ۔2Someone said to Sayyidatuna ‘Aaishah رَضِیَ الـلّٰـهُ عَنْهَا, ‘A woman wears shoes (like men)’, so she رَضِیَ الـلّٰـهُ عَنْهَا said, ‘The Messenger of Allah صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم cursed the women who imitate men.’ (Abu Dawood, vol. 4, p. 84, Hadees 4099) ‘Allamah Maulana Mufti Muhammad Amjad Ali A’zami رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه states: Meaning, women should not wear male shoes, in fact, in all those matters where there is a distinction between men and women, it is prohibited for them to imitate each other; men should not imitate women nor should women imitate men. (Bahar-e-Shari’at, p. 65, part 16)

   ۔3Remove your shoes when you sit down; the feet feel comfort in this.

   ۔4 (one reason for poverty) is to look at a shoe that is upside down and not turn it the right way up; it is written in ‘Dawlat-e-Be Zawaal’: If a shoe is left upside down throughout the whole night, Satan sits on it; it is his throne. (Sunni Behshti Zaywar, p. 601, part 5)

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب                                                            صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد