The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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Then we return to what we are talking about, and I say that the meaning of squatting in the language is the squatting of a dog and a monkey, and its description is that a man sits on his buttocks, bringing them to the ground in prayer, with his thighs erect. This is the characteristic of squatting, like the squatting of a dog and a lion, and there is no disagreement. Mention among the scholars that this form is not an attribute. Prayer: The prohibition of squatting in prayer has been mentioned, so we interpret it as the standing that is known in the tongue. If the Sharia assigns it to a specific form that takes it out of what is understood from it on the tongue and is spoken, then we stopped at it and know that that form is the one that was forbidden. A group said that the forbidden squatting is for him to place his buttocks on his heels. Between the two prostrations and to sit on the tops of his feet. It was narrated on the authority of Ibn Umar that he used to do that because he


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