Al-Qawl al-Mufid ala Kitab al-Tawhid — Volume 1 (القول المفيد على كتاب التوحيد) — Page 457

Line-by-line translation · المعاني

جَمِيعُ النَّوَافِلِ لِقَوْلِهِ ﷺ : «أَفْضَلُ صَلَاةِ الْمَرْءِ فِي بَيْتِهِ إِلَّا الْمَكْتُوبَةَ»، إِلَّا مَا وَرَدَ الشَّرْعُ أَنْ يُفْعَلَ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ مِثْلُ : صَلَاةِ الْكُسُوفِ، وَقِيَامِ اللَّيْلِ فِي رَمَضَانَ، حَتَّى وَلَوْ كُنْتَ فِي مَسْجِدِ النَّبِيِّ، لِأَنَّ النَّبِيَّ قَالَ ذَلِكَ وَهُوَ فِي مَسْجِدِهِ، وَتَكُونُ الْمُضَاعَفَةُ بِالنِّسْبَةِ لِلْفَرَائِضِ وَالنَّوَافِلِ الَّتِي تُسَنُّ لَهَا الْجَمَاعَةُ.

All supererogatory prayers [should be performed at home] due to his saying (peace be upon him): 'A person's best prayer is in his house, except for the obligatory one,' unless the Sharia has specified that it be performed in the mosque, such as the eclipse prayer and the night prayer (Qiyam) in Ramadan, even if you are in the Prophet's Mosque, because the Prophet said that while he was in his mosque, and the multiplication [of reward] applies to the obligatory prayers and the supererogatory prayers for which congregational prayer is prescribed.

قَوْلُهُ : «عِيدًا» الْعِيدُ اسْمٌ لِمَا يُعْتَادُ فِعْلُهُ، أَوِ التَّرَدُّدُ إِلَيْهِ فَإِذَا اعْتَادَ الْإِنْسَانُ أَنْ يَعْمَلَ عَمَلًا كَمَا لَوْ كَانَ كُلَّمَا حَالَ عَلَيْهِ الْحَوْلُ صَنَعَ طَعَامًا وَدَعَا النَّاسَ، فَهَذَا يُسَمَّى عِيدًا لِأَنَّهُ جَعَلَهُ يَعُودُ وَيَتَكَرَّرُ.

His saying: 'An Eid'—Eid is a name for that which is habitually done or frequented; so if a person gets into the habit of doing an action, as if, for example, every time a year passes, he prepares food and invites people, this is called an Eid because he has made it return and repeat.

وَكَذَلِكَ مِنَ الْعِيدِ أَنْ تَعْتَادَ شَيْئًا فَتَتَرَدَّدَ إِلَيْهِ مِثْلُ : مَا يَفْعَلُ بَعْضُ الْجَهَلَةِ فِي شَهْرِ رَجَبٍ وَهُوَ مَا يُسَمَّى بِالزِّيَارَةِ الرَّجَبِيَّةِ، حَيْثُ يَذْهَبُونَ مِنْ مَكَّةَ.

Likewise, it is part of an Eid that you habituate something and frequent it, such as what some ignorant people do in the month of Rajab, which is what is called the Rajab pilgrimage, where they go from Mecca.

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Vocabulary · المفردات (15 verbs · 55 nouns)

• وَرَدَ — to be reported
• فَعَلَ — to do
• كَانَ — to be
• جَمِيعٌ — all
• نَافِلَةٌ — supererogatory prayer
• قَوْلٌ — saying