The ruling on praying at home with a bedridden father and leaving the congregation
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The Shaykh:
Allah commanded this blessing.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: My father is old, sick, and bedridden, and he prays at home. He asks me to pray with him inside the house and gets angry if I do not pray with him. I went to the mosque. What is obligatory for me? Is it obligatory for me to go to the mosque and pray with the congregation, or should I sit and pray with him at home?
The Shaykh:
No, teach him that this is not permissible, that you should be absent from the mosque while you have no excuse. Whoever hears the call to prayer and does not come to it has no prayer except one who has an excuse. This is not an excuse. The father is excused and prays at home. The father is excused. This is specific to the one who is excused. The father prays at home because he is excused, and this does not prevent you from praying in the mosque. Yes, convey to him that this is not permissible. Yes.
Allah commanded this blessing.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: My father is old, sick, and bedridden, and he prays at home. He asks me to pray with him inside the house and gets angry if I do not pray with him. I went to the mosque. What is obligatory for me? Is it obligatory for me to go to the mosque and pray with the congregation, or should I sit and pray with him at home?
The Shaykh:
No, teach him that this is not permissible, that you should be absent from the mosque while you have no excuse. Whoever hears the call to prayer and does not come to it has no prayer except one who has an excuse. This is not an excuse. The father is excused and prays at home. The father is excused. This is specific to the one who is excused. The father prays at home because he is excused, and this does not prevent you from praying in the mosque. Yes, convey to him that this is not permissible. Yes.
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المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 30-10-1436هـ — alfawzan.live (1:03:56)
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