The Prohibition of Swaying Back & Forth While Reading The Qur'aan - Dawud Adeeb Bakr Aboo Zayd said that Aboo Hayyaan said (in Al-Bahr Al-Muheet) that Az-Zamakhsharee said in Al-Kash-shaaf, "When Moosaa came with the slates that had the Book of Allaah Most High (the Tawraah) on them, there was no tree, mountain, or rock, except that it shook, and for that reason, you never see a Jew reading the Tawraah expect he shakes and moves his head towards it." Aboo Hayyaan said: "And this has made its way to the Muslim youth, as I have seen in Egypt, you see them when they read the Qur'aan shaking and moving their heads. However in our lands, in Al-Andelus and in the West, if a young man would move about when reading the Qur'aan, the teacher would get on him and say, "Do not move about so that you become like the Jews when they study!" See Tasheeh Ad-Du'aa' of Bakr Aboo Zayd, p.79-81 for some more stuff on swaying and moving about when reading the Qur'aan. In the book The Concise Legacy by Shaykhul Islaam ibn Taymiyyah, english print, pg. 16 there occurs a hadeeth: "The loners (mufarridoon) have taken the lead." The companions asked, "O Messenger of Allaah! Who are the loners?" He replied, "Those men and women who remember Allaah in abundance." This hadeeth is also narrated via a route different to Muslim's by Ahmad and al-Haakim, who declared it to be Saheeh and adh-Dhababi agreed, in which the final answer to the meaning of 'mufarridoon' is , "Those who are passionately occupied ...
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