Passing in front of the praying people in case of necessity
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, you mentioned the prohibition of passing in front of a person praying without necessity. What is the ruling if there are many people praying the regular voluntary prayers after the obligatory prayer, and I have no way to leave the mosque except by passing in front of one of them? Is this permissible for me?
Answer:
What necessity? Yes, if there is no path except to pass in front of the person praying, and you cannot do otherwise. It is better if you wait and sit, but if it is urgent, if it is something you need, if you go out, if it is something you need, that is a necessity. Intoxicants, you do not transgress. But if there is no necessity, you sit until every passerby has passed. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, you mentioned the prohibition of passing in front of a person praying without necessity. What is the ruling if there are many people praying the regular voluntary prayers after the obligatory prayer, and I have no way to leave the mosque except by passing in front of one of them? Is this permissible for me?
Answer:
What necessity? Yes, if there is no path except to pass in front of the person praying, and you cannot do otherwise. It is better if you wait and sit, but if it is urgent, if it is something you need, if you go out, if it is something you need, that is a necessity. Intoxicants, you do not transgress. But if there is no necessity, you sit until every passerby has passed. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 141/28 شرح زاد المستقنع/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (1:21:05)
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