Despite the fact that the Prophet ﷺ performed the most (& longest) prostrations, he never gained a mark on his forehead. Such a mark can lead to riya (ostentation or a lack of sincerity). Avoid doing sajdah on rough surfaces, pressing one’s head or dragging it while prostrating.
The above quotes are from Tafsīr al-Qurtubi.
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If people soon become more inclined to visiting (Facebook’s) Metaworld than our real world, then they would have lost touch of reality.
It’s so easy to see how the world will soon believe in a false god (Dajjal) that leads them away from reality surrounding them.
I’m not saying Dajjal is a non-tangible character (he will be a real figure in the real world) but his introduction to minds connected to a virtual world - wherein already people are complaining of being raped & seeing shocking images - is all but simple.
Fake news in the real world already made people swing their votes to Brexit (through Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica) and also helped Trump win the 2016 Presidential elections. What fake perceptions of Metaworld are we going to see it’s users fall into in the near future?!
Ibn Khillikhan narrates in Wafayat al-‘Ay’an, on the authority of Hasan b. Ziyad al-Lu’lu’i, one of the star pupils of Imam Abu Hanifa رح, that a man came to Imam Abu Hanifa and said, ‘I buried wealth in the ground but I forgot where I buried it. Can you help me locate it?’
Imam Abu Hanifa رح replied that this wasn’t a jurisprudential inquiry, and so he couldn’t offer any substantive help. But, Imam Abu Hanifa being who he was, (sharp & intelligent) instructed the man to go home and pray the entire night and then come back to him the next day.
The man did so, and returned to Abu Hanifa رح to inform him that he had discovered the location of his missing wealth. The man was bewildered as to how Abu Hanifa’s directive to pray the night prayer allowed him to discover the location of his wealth.