Men from the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice Praying in Congregation at Their Center
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Some people criticize the men of the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, saying that they order people to pray in congregation in the mosques, but they themselves pray in congregation at their center. He asks: Is that permissible?
Answer:
You have heard the statement that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) intended to appoint someone to lead the people in prayer and then go to forbid what is wrong. So if the men of the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice are engaged in forbidding what is wrong and monitoring open sinners and criminals, observing them, then the obligation of praying in congregation in the mosque is lifted from them, and they pray in congregation at their location. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Some people criticize the men of the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, saying that they order people to pray in congregation in the mosques, but they themselves pray in congregation at their center. He asks: Is that permissible?
Answer:
You have heard the statement that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) intended to appoint someone to lead the people in prayer and then go to forbid what is wrong. So if the men of the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice are engaged in forbidding what is wrong and monitoring open sinners and criminals, observing them, then the obligation of praying in congregation in the mosque is lifted from them, and they pray in congregation at their location. Yes.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 28-12-1434هـ — af.org.sa (46:06)
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