What is the ruling on female students performing the prayer for rain in congregation at one of the colleges?
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. A questioner says: The Girls' Education Administration in one of the regions sent out a circular today to the girls' college to perform the prayer for rain tomorrow inside the college. The administrators and students are asking: Do they pray it in congregation? Does one of them deliver the sermon? Or do they pray individually?
Answer:
By Allah, the Sunnah, if one wants to follow the Sunnah, is that the Muslims go out and pray together, the men and the women, with the women behind the men. This is the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). As for separating and each person praying in their own place without a fatwa, that is a loss, that is a loss. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. A questioner says: The Girls' Education Administration in one of the regions sent out a circular today to the girls' college to perform the prayer for rain tomorrow inside the college. The administrators and students are asking: Do they pray it in congregation? Does one of them deliver the sermon? Or do they pray individually?
Answer:
By Allah, the Sunnah, if one wants to follow the Sunnah, is that the Muslims go out and pray together, the men and the women, with the women behind the men. This is the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). As for separating and each person praying in their own place without a fatwa, that is a loss, that is a loss. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [565 -858] ما حكم إقامة الطالبات صلاة الاستسقاء جماعة في إحدى الكليات؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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