Is it permissible for one who feels tightness in the chest due to some problems to leave the congregational prayer?
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: Most of the time, I am afflicted with tightness in the chest due to some problems that occur to me in this life. And during this tightness, I do not attend the congregational prayer in the mosque because of the severity of what I suffer, so I pray at home. What is the ruling on my action? Knowing that it is beyond my control,
Answer:
If you are unable to attend, you are excused in this. But if you are able to attend, it is obligatory for you to attend, even if you have tightness of the soul. You should attend, and perhaps this—indeed, certainly, if Allah wills, it will be a cause for the removal of what you are feeling. Prayer opens the chest, and the remembrance of Allah opens the chest. If you come with your brothers and the Muslims, and you see your brothers, your chest will open without doubt, and Satan will be kept away from you.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: Most of the time, I am afflicted with tightness in the chest due to some problems that occur to me in this life. And during this tightness, I do not attend the congregational prayer in the mosque because of the severity of what I suffer, so I pray at home. What is the ruling on my action? Knowing that it is beyond my control,
Answer:
If you are unable to attend, you are excused in this. But if you are able to attend, it is obligatory for you to attend, even if you have tightness of the soul. You should attend, and perhaps this—indeed, certainly, if Allah wills, it will be a cause for the removal of what you are feeling. Prayer opens the chest, and the remembrance of Allah opens the chest. If you come with your brothers and the Muslims, and you see your brothers, your chest will open without doubt, and Satan will be kept away from you.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [226 -2802] هل يجوز لمن يشعر بضيق في الصدر بسبب بعض المشاكل أن يدع صلاة الجماعة؟ -الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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