Students abroad who pray the Friday prayer in one of the classrooms due to the distance of the mosques: what is the ruling on that?
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The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. We are students in one of the foreign countries, and there is no mosque near us except one that is thirty-five kilometers away, so we are forced to establish the Friday prayer in one of the university classrooms. Is that permissible for us? And is a specific number required for its establishment?
The Shaykh:
You do not establish it except with settled residents. You are not settled residents. One of the conditions for the validity of the Friday prayer is settlement. If there are Muslims in the town who are residents and settled, you establish it with them as followers. As for the one who is not settled, he does not pray the Friday prayer, because he lacks the condition of settlement.
The questioner:
He says: Some settled residents come to pray with us. Is that sufficient for its establishment?
The Shaykh:
If there are settled residents with you, there is no harm. The condition has been met?
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. We are students in one of the foreign countries, and there is no mosque near us except one that is thirty-five kilometers away, so we are forced to establish the Friday prayer in one of the university classrooms. Is that permissible for us? And is a specific number required for its establishment?
The Shaykh:
You do not establish it except with settled residents. You are not settled residents. One of the conditions for the validity of the Friday prayer is settlement. If there are Muslims in the town who are residents and settled, you establish it with them as followers. As for the one who is not settled, he does not pray the Friday prayer, because he lacks the condition of settlement.
The questioner:
He says: Some settled residents come to pray with us. Is that sufficient for its establishment?
The Shaykh:
If there are settled residents with you, there is no harm. The condition has been met?
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [314 -582] طلاب في الخارج يقيمون صلاة الجمعة في إحدى الفصول وذلك بسبب بعد المساجد، فما حكم ذلك؟ — youtube.com
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