An imam who wanted to lengthen the bowing and prostration in the night prayer, and it was said to him: There is hardship in that for the elderly!
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, I am the imam of a mosque, and I have heard what you mentioned, may Allah preserve you, regarding the evidence for the permissibility of easing the burden on the congregation and considering their conditions. However, in the Tahajjud prayer last Ramadan, I wanted to lengthen the bowing and prostration so that everyone could make supplication. Some of the elderly and sick people in the congregation told me that it was a hardship for them. So I sometimes eased it and sometimes lengthened it. What is prescribed in this matter?
Answer:
The middle way. The prescribed middle way is to take the middle: do not lengthen it until it becomes a hardship for them, and do not shorten it until you neglect the prayer, but take the middle. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, I am the imam of a mosque, and I have heard what you mentioned, may Allah preserve you, regarding the evidence for the permissibility of easing the burden on the congregation and considering their conditions. However, in the Tahajjud prayer last Ramadan, I wanted to lengthen the bowing and prostration so that everyone could make supplication. Some of the elderly and sick people in the congregation told me that it was a hardship for them. So I sometimes eased it and sometimes lengthened it. What is prescribed in this matter?
Answer:
The middle way. The prescribed middle way is to take the middle: do not lengthen it until it becomes a hardship for them, and do not shorten it until you neglect the prayer, but take the middle. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [396 -2802] إمام أراد تطويل الركوع والسجود في قيام الليل، فقيل له: إن في ذلك مشقة على كبار السن! — youtube.com
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