{"id":1276,"date":"2015-02-14T00:28:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T05:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darussaafi.wordpress.com\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2015-02-14T00:28:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T05:28:20","slug":"the-ruling-on-praying-in-front-of-a-heater-shaikh-saalih-al-fawzaan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/?p=1276","title":{"rendered":"The Ruling on Praying In front of a Heater- Shaikh Saalih al-Fawzaan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><strong>Question<\/strong>: Is it allowed to pray in front of a heater while\u00a0it is working? Does this have an effect on the &#8216;Aqeedah?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer<\/strong>: &#8220;There is no harm in praying in front of an electric heater even if it is turned on because it is like an electric lamp which is used for lighting. Verily the jurists (may Allah have mercy upon them) mentioned a dislike to pray in front of fire and the electric heater is not fire. The dislike of praying facing a fire is because in it is a resemblance to the Zoroastrians who worship the fire. And Allah knows best&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>[[Taken from <em>809 Qadiyah Tahumm ul-Muslim wa ra\u2019i al-\u2018Ulamaa Feeha<\/em> pg. 163]<\/p>\n<p>Translated by<\/p>\n<p>Faisal Ibn Abdul Qaadir Ibn Hassan<\/p>\n<p>Abu Sulaymaan<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Is it allowed to pray in front of a heater while\u00a0it is working? Does this have an effect on the &#8216;Aqeedah? Answer: &#8220;There is no harm in praying in front of an electric heater even if it is turned on because it is like an electric lamp which is used for lighting. Verily the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}