ANSWER:

What they said is baseless and a blatant lie! Raising the hands in the first takbeer would have been sufficient to make such idols fall down and there was no need to raise them every rakah!

Sheikh I’m from pakistan and only 14. I wanted to ask you about rafa ul dain I didn’t do it but then I started to do it because of the sahih hadiths that I read.But then some people from tablighi jamah saw me and told me this is not real and I shouldn’t do it they said that the munafic used to keep idols in their arm pits the prophet did rafa ul dain so the idols would fall.plz clear the confusion