The namâzes of women

Question: What are the differences between the namâzes of men and those of women?
ANSWER
They are:

1- When beginning to perform namâz, a woman raises both hands up to the level of her shoulders. She does not grasp her left wrist with the fingers of her right hand. She puts her hands on her breast, right hand on top of the left.

2- While making ruku’, she bends less as compared to men, and she does not bring the heel of her left foot near her right foot. She does not keep her legs straight, nor her back level. She puts her hands on her knees, but she does not grasp them. Also, she does not keep her fingers wide apart.

3- When making sajda, she lays her arms on the ground, bringing her arms to her sides while she keeps her abdomen placed over her thighs.

4- In the tashahhud [sitting posture], she sits on the buttocks, her feet jutting out towards right. She keeps her toes adjacent to one another.

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Things that nullify namâz

Question: What are the things that nullfiy namâz?
ANSWER
Things that nullify a namâz are called mufsids. A worship being fâsid or bâtil is the same; it means it is broken, nullified.
Some of them are as follows:

1- To talk. Even one word nullifies namâz. It always nullifies namâz regardless of whether it is said intentionally or inadvertently or under duress or by forgetting. However, it does not nullify namâz to say the salâm at the end of the first sitting posture, mistaking it for the second sitting. Yet if you say, “Assalâmu,” thinking that the namâz is of two rak’ats, or if you say it while standing, your namâz becomes nullified. To respond to someone else’s greeting, in any manner whatsoever, nullifies namâz.

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Dinimizde tesettürün önemi

Sual: Tesettürü kimler inkâr ediyor?
CEVAP
Kur’ana inanmadıkları halde, (Yalnız Kur’an) diyen yalancılarla, On dokuzculuk bâtıl dinine sarılanlar, tesettürü inkâr ediyorlar. Halbuki Kur’an-ı kerimde mealen buyuruluyor ki:
(Mümin kadınlara söyle, gözlerini sakınsınlar, ırzlarını korusunlar, görünen kısmı hariç, ziynetlerini göstermesinler, başörtülerini yakalarına kadar örtsünler!) [Nur 31]

Bu âyette bazı hususlar açık değil. Mesela kadın, gözünü neden sakınacak, ırzını nasıl koruyacak, ziynetten maksat ne? Kına, sürme mi, altın, gümüş mü, küpe, kolye, bilezik mi? Bu hususlar tam açık değildir, bunlar hadis-i şerifle açıklanarak bildirilmiştir. Allahü teâlâ, (Resule itaat Allah’a itaattir) ve (Sana indirdiğim Kur’anı, anlamaları için insanlara açıkla) buyuruyor. (Nahl 44)

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