Is it permissible for a student to pray by gesture in a school that forbids prayer?
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner is from outside this country. He says: In our country, the state forbids performing the prayer inside government and private schools, and has installed cameras to monitor and punish anyone who prays in the school. It has also forbidden leaving the school at prayer time. His question is: Is it permissible for the student to pray by gesture?
The Shaykh:
No. He should pray if he leaves the school, as long as he wants to leave at the time, even if it is at the very end of the time, he should pray if he leaves. Yes.
The questioner:
You mentioned, may Allah preserve you, in the question that they enter at eight in the morning and do not leave until the call to Maghrib prayer. He says: So they miss the Zuhr and 'Asr prayers. Is it permissible for them to pray by gesture?
The Shaykh:
They should practice their religion; it is obligatory for them, and they should not enter this school. There should be a school for Muslims for them. If they do this, there should be private schools for them, and they should leave the schools of disbelief.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner is from outside this country. He says: In our country, the state forbids performing the prayer inside government and private schools, and has installed cameras to monitor and punish anyone who prays in the school. It has also forbidden leaving the school at prayer time. His question is: Is it permissible for the student to pray by gesture?
The Shaykh:
No. He should pray if he leaves the school, as long as he wants to leave at the time, even if it is at the very end of the time, he should pray if he leaves. Yes.
The questioner:
You mentioned, may Allah preserve you, in the question that they enter at eight in the morning and do not leave until the call to Maghrib prayer. He says: So they miss the Zuhr and 'Asr prayers. Is it permissible for them to pray by gesture?
The Shaykh:
They should practice their religion; it is obligatory for them, and they should not enter this school. There should be a school for Muslims for them. If they do this, there should be private schools for them, and they should leave the schools of disbelief.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 1008- هل يجوز للطالب أن يصلي بالإشارة في مدرسة تمنع الصلاة؟ - صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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