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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The ruling on going to a distant mosque because its imam has a better recitation or sermon, or for other reasons

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Question : Sometimes a person is attached to a mosque. He finds the people of that mosque to be more devoted in worship than the people of the second mosque. The mosques differ, Shaykh. Their decorations differ, and the people of this mosque are found to be better than the people of the second mosque.

Answer : There is nothing wrong with it, because he did not go for the sake of the mosque itself, but for the sake of its people, and he did not undertake a journey to it. This happens often, either because its people are people of worship and obedience, or because they are his friends, or because its imam has a better recitation, or a better Friday sermon, and he goes to it on Fridays. The important thing is that if it is not for the sake of the place, there is no harm. Let us see this.
Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، 1396- حكم الذهاب إلى مسجد بعيد لأن إمامه أحسن تلاوة أو خطبة وغيرها - الشيخ ابن عثيمين — youtube.com

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