The Ruling on the Prayer for Rain and Its Virtue

Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. Is the prayer for rain obligatory, or is it a confirmed recommended practice? We ask you to clarify its virtue, as many people are lax in performing the prayer and do not attend it.

Answer:
The prayer for rain is a recommended practice, a confirmed recommended practice, not obligatory. People need it, people need it when the rains are withheld and water is scarce. The prayer for rain is a recommended practice, a recommended practice, not obligatory, and people need it because of the withholding of rain and the scarcity of water, and the occurrence of many diseases when the rain is withheld. So they need to seek rain and supplicate to Allah the Exalted and Majestic. It is confirmed that it is the right of the Muslims to go out for the prayer for rain, and to supplicate to their Lord, and to repent, to repent from sins and transgressions, so that perhaps Allah will accept their repentance and accept from them. So they need to supplicate to Allah .
And He the Exalted and Majestic said, and your Lord said: “Call upon Me, I will respond to you,” Those who delay from the prayer of the Fajr are one of two: either it is laziness on their part and lack of concern.
Regarding the state of the Muslims. This is a matter that is not permissible. The Muslim is a brick in the building of the Muslims; what concerns him concerns him, what harms him harms him, and what pleases him pleases him, so he is one of them. If he is rich and he claims that he is rich and that he does not need the rain, there are among his brothers poor people who are in need of what? Of the rain. The Muslims are like one body; if one part of it complains, the whole body responds to it with fever and sleeplessness. This is one category. The second category is that he may not see the Qur'an, charity, and he mocks them.
And this is not far-fetched, because some of them have abandoned the obligatory prayer, abandoned the five prayers, he does not pray. Is it strange to us to be surprised at him with the same prayer in the prayer for rain? If he abandons the five prayers, it is not strange that he mentions the prayer of al-Fatihah, but this, if Allah wills, is not common among the Muslims. This is a small category among the Muslims.