Ruling on Following Schools to Monitor Students' Prayer
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Question:
The questioner says: What is your opinion in a religious context? He says: I say in prayer, and sometimes I deal with school correspondence regarding the observation of prayer by Allah, and sometimes it is congregational prayer, and I pray alone. I do not want from you in this poem, and what is preserved in this?
Answer:
If this is done on a full-time basis, then it is not permissible for you to leave the prayer to go follow these people. But if you know that they do not pray, take another measure. Take another measure with them, such as reporting them to the authorities and their superiors. As for repeatedly going to them when it is known that they are harmful and have a desire to pray, this causes them to lose that prayer, and there is no hope that they will correct themselves. So these people should be reported to their authorities, and the necessary measures should be taken with them until they commit to prayer.
As for if this is only sometimes, meaning you went once to monitor a person or to check on a place or his family and encountered the prayer, there is no harm in that. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:Sahih al-Bukhari 2420 Then I will appoint a man to lead the people, then I will go to a group of men, and I will appoint men with them, stones of danger, Bulugh al-Maram 2:305 their cups with fire.
If this is only sometimes and in a matter that ends and does not repeat, do not forget, and do not abandon the prayer, because this is a remedy for a specific issue that does not repeat.
The questioner says: What is your opinion in a religious context? He says: I say in prayer, and sometimes I deal with school correspondence regarding the observation of prayer by Allah, and sometimes it is congregational prayer, and I pray alone. I do not want from you in this poem, and what is preserved in this?
Answer:
If this is done on a full-time basis, then it is not permissible for you to leave the prayer to go follow these people. But if you know that they do not pray, take another measure. Take another measure with them, such as reporting them to the authorities and their superiors. As for repeatedly going to them when it is known that they are harmful and have a desire to pray, this causes them to lose that prayer, and there is no hope that they will correct themselves. So these people should be reported to their authorities, and the necessary measures should be taken with them until they commit to prayer.
As for if this is only sometimes, meaning you went once to monitor a person or to check on a place or his family and encountered the prayer, there is no harm in that. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
No doubt, I intended to order somebody to pronounce the Iqama of the (compulsory congregational) prayer
لقد أملت أن أمر بالصلاة فتقامthen going off to some people (men) who are not present at the prayer and burning down their houses
ثُمَّ أُخَالِفُ إِلَى رِجَالٍ لَا يَشْهَدُونَ اَلصَّلَاةَ فَأُحَرِّقَ عَلَيْهِمْIf this is only sometimes and in a matter that ends and does not repeat, do not forget, and do not abandon the prayer, because this is a remedy for a specific issue that does not repeat.
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