The Ruling on Qunut in Prayer

Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he is coming from al-Sharqiyah to ask Your Eminence this question. He says: I am the imam of a mosque, and I found myself in a difficult situation with the people of my mosque because of the qunut performed in the mosques adjacent to mine during the daily prayers. Some of them became angry with me, and someone came to me saying that the shaykhs had said on television on Saturday night that it is obligatory for the imams to perform qunut for our brothers in Palestine, as long as the one in authority has not prohibited it. I went to the Waqf (Endowments) Department, and they said that no order had been issued and no prohibition had been issued. I ask Your Eminence: should I perform qunut or not?

Answer:
He refrained, he refrained from qunut. The one who supplicates—what closed the door against him? He supplicates, he supplicates in his prayer, he supplicates at night, he supplicates in the witr, he supplicates in qunut, he supplicates while walking, he supplicates while sitting. Supplication was not prohibited, meaning, wait, supplication is not prohibited except for qunut only. So I am reassured regarding supplication; supplicate. And as long as no fatwa has been issued, do not perform qunut. Yes. Yes, he says: The obligatory prayer does not admit anything, nothing is added to it or anything else except by a fatwa from the people of knowledge. Yes.