Holding the Friday Prayer and Calling People in Recreational Facilities

The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, young men are staying in a recreational facility fifty kilometers from Riyadh, and they stay there for two days of every

The Shaykh:
came from Riyadh.

The questioner:
fifty kilometers.

The Shaykh:
Fifty or fifty?

The questioner:
It is fifty kilometers from Riyadh.

The Shaykh:
Yes.

The questioner:
and they stay there for two days of every week.

The Shaykh:
Yes.

The questioner:
for the sake of calling people.

The Shaykh:
Yes.

The questioner:
for the sake of calling people, so is it permissible for them to hold the Friday prayer in the recreational facility, given that their number is fifteen?

The Shaykh:
First, calling people, what is calling people? The calling is in the recreational facilities; the recreational facilities have become common among people, yes, as you know, so the wicked and the corrupt have exploited them for seclusion and suspicious matters.
So the calling should not be in the recreational facilities, nor the lessons in the recreational facilities. Rather, they should be in the mosques, openly, among the people, so that the present ones benefit from it, whether they are from the common people or those entering the mosque, and knowledge is not secret; knowledge is public, and the listener benefits from it. So the calling is not held in recreational facilities; rather, the default ruling is that eating or gatherings are held in recreational facilities, but the calling is not. Do not make recreational facilities a place for calling, and you know what problems have occurred in these recreational facilities: gatherings of young men, and the wicked exploit them, coming to them and indoctrinating them and washing their brains. So do not make recreational facilities a place for calling to Allah the Exalted, as they say, or for lessons.
As for the Friday prayer, it is definitely not valid in the recreational facility. They should pray with the mosques, with the congregational mosques. But these people want isolation, even in the Friday prayer and the congregation, and there is no power and no strength except with Allah. Even that which is not valid except in the mosque, which is the Friday prayer, they pray it in the recreational facility. This is not permissible. Pray with the Muslims in the congregational mosques. And if the recreational facility is in the desert and far from the town, and they do not hear the call to prayer, they pray the midday prayer because they are travelers.