The ruling on performing the Friday prayer and lessons in rest houses
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Young men stay in a rest house that is fifty kilometers from Riyadh, and they stay there for two days of every week. Fifty kilometers. Fifty or fifty. It is fifty kilometers from Riyadh. Yes. And they stay there for two days of every week, yes. For the purpose of calling people, is it permissible for them to perform the Friday prayer in the rest house, given that their number is fifteen?
Answer:
First, calling people, what is the call? The call is in rest houses. Rest houses have become common among people. Yes, now, as you know, the wicked and the corrupt have exploited them for seclusion. This is suspicious. So the call should not be in rest houses, nor should lessons be in rest houses. Rather, they should be in mosques, openly, among the people, so that the present common people and those entering the mosque benefit from them. Knowledge is not secret; knowledge is public, and the listener benefits from it. So the call is not held in rest houses. Rather, the default ruling, or eating, is held in rest houses. As for the call, no. Rest houses are not to be taken as a place for the call, and you know what problems have occurred in these rest houses: gatherings of young men, and the wicked exploit them, coming to indoctrinate them and wash their brains. So rest houses are not to be taken for the call to Allah the Exalted, as they say, or for lessons.
As for the Friday prayer, it is definitely not valid in a rest house. They should pray with the mosques, with the congregational mosques. But these people want seclusion, even in the Friday prayer and the congregation, and there is no power and no strength except with Allah. Even that which is not valid except in the mosque, which is the Friday prayer, they perform it in the rest house. No, it is not permissible. They should pray with the Muslims in the congregational mosques. And if the rest house is in the desert, and far from the town, and they do not hear the call to prayer, they should pray the midday prayer, because they are travelers.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Young men stay in a rest house that is fifty kilometers from Riyadh, and they stay there for two days of every week. Fifty kilometers. Fifty or fifty. It is fifty kilometers from Riyadh. Yes. And they stay there for two days of every week, yes. For the purpose of calling people, is it permissible for them to perform the Friday prayer in the rest house, given that their number is fifteen?
Answer:
First, calling people, what is the call? The call is in rest houses. Rest houses have become common among people. Yes, now, as you know, the wicked and the corrupt have exploited them for seclusion. This is suspicious. So the call should not be in rest houses, nor should lessons be in rest houses. Rather, they should be in mosques, openly, among the people, so that the present common people and those entering the mosque benefit from them. Knowledge is not secret; knowledge is public, and the listener benefits from it. So the call is not held in rest houses. Rather, the default ruling, or eating, is held in rest houses. As for the call, no. Rest houses are not to be taken as a place for the call, and you know what problems have occurred in these rest houses: gatherings of young men, and the wicked exploit them, coming to indoctrinate them and wash their brains. So rest houses are not to be taken for the call to Allah the Exalted, as they say, or for lessons.
As for the Friday prayer, it is definitely not valid in a rest house. They should pray with the mosques, with the congregational mosques. But these people want seclusion, even in the Friday prayer and the congregation, and there is no power and no strength except with Allah. Even that which is not valid except in the mosque, which is the Friday prayer, they perform it in the rest house. No, it is not permissible. They should pray with the Muslims in the congregational mosques. And if the rest house is in the desert, and far from the town, and they do not hear the call to prayer, they should pray the midday prayer, because they are travelers.
Source
إقامة صلاة الجمعة في الاستراحة وعدد الموجودين خمسة عشر — alfawzan.live
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