The ruling on ordering one who prayed facing a direction other than the qiblah in Makkah to repeat the prayer
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: I saw people praying facing a direction other than the qiblah, with their backs to it, so I ordered them to repeat the prayer because they are in Makkah, and there is no ijtihad (independent legal reasoning) in Makkah. He says: Is what I said correct?
Answer:
Yes, this is negligence on their part? In Makkah, where they have Muslims, mosques, and mihrabs (prayer niches), and they have what is permissible for them to pray toward, yet they say, "We are exercising ijtihad." Our ijtihad is not in the desert where there are no signs, nothing, and no one to ask. That is ijtihad. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: I saw people praying facing a direction other than the qiblah, with their backs to it, so I ordered them to repeat the prayer because they are in Makkah, and there is no ijtihad (independent legal reasoning) in Makkah. He says: Is what I said correct?
Answer:
Yes, this is negligence on their part? In Makkah, where they have Muslims, mosques, and mihrabs (prayer niches), and they have what is permissible for them to pray toward, yet they say, "We are exercising ijtihad." Our ijtihad is not in the desert where there are no signs, nothing, and no one to ask. That is ijtihad. Yes.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 29-05-1433هـ — alfawzan.live (52:11)
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