Kissing the the Thumbnails and touching the eyes
Shaykh M. Afifi al-Akiti (hafidhAllah) elucidates the issue of kissing one’s thumbnails and touching the eyes with them from a Shafi’i perspective: Ma sha’ Allah, Rabbi zidni ‘ilman! In fiqh, the discussion of taqbil al-unbulatayn wa mash al-‘aynayn is usually found at the end of Bab Adhan. Certain gestures performed during the adhan, and specifically the ‘amal of kissing the thumbs and wiping the eye, are something known to Shafi’is, and there can be no objection whatsoever by our jurists…