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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The ruling on the prayer of one who cannot maintain his wudu in al-Masjid al-Haram

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: I have a friend who suffers from a condition where wind constantly escapes from him. He performs wudu for every prayer, but when he prays in al-Masjid al-Haram and sits after the prayer, it is difficult for him to go out to perform wudu due to the severe congestion. Is it permissible for him to pray the next prayer with his first wudu?

Answer:
He prays in al-Masjid al-Haram, he prays in the other mosques. As long as he is unable to maintain his wudu, he should not pray in al-Masjid al-Haram. Rather, the prayer in al-Masjid al-Haram: the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) descended at al-Mi'lat during the Farewell Pilgrimage and did not go to al-Masjid al-Haram for every prayer. He would pray in his location, peace and blessings be upon him. All the mosques of Makkah, and praise be to Allah, from al-Masjid al-Haram, everything within the miles is al-Masjid al-Haram. All the mosques of Makkah have the virtue. The prayer in them is worth a hundred thousand prayers because it is in the Haram.
So they should not burden themselves by crowding into al-Masjid al-Haram and being there all the time, and they get uncomfortable and are unable to pray as required, also because of the congestion. Allah did not command this, O brothers? Pray in the mosques of Makkah, spread out, and praise be to Allah. Yes. And the Haram. He did not go except for tawaf and sa'y. He did not go to al-Masjid al-Haram, even though he was at al-Mi'lat, near the graveyard, close by, in order to make things easy for his Ummah. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [570 -3022] رجل يصلي في المسجد الحرام وهو مصاب بانفلات الريح هل له أن يصلي بوضوئه الأول بسبب الزحام؟ — youtube.com

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