Designating specific mosques for Friday prayer for visitors in their languages
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The questioner:
Your Eminence the Shaykh! It is not hidden from Your Eminence the number of visitors to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Among these visitors are our brothers from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, and they are Muslims, praise be to Allah. But what is Your Eminence’s opinion if a mosque were designated for them in every neighborhood to perform the Friday prayer in congregation, with the imam being Pakistani or Indian? This would spread the benefit, and perhaps the sermons would benefit them. They attend Friday prayer, and the imam delivers the sermon, but they do not understand what he is saying because it is in Arabic, and they do not understand Arabic. You find most of them talking while the imam is delivering the sermon. And unfortunately, even if we guide them to this, it is not permissible, so they do not understand. We know that there are Pakistanis among them who are proficient in Arabic and have memorized the entire Qur'an. We ask that this idea be adopted, and may Allah reward you with the best reward for us and for them.
The Shaykh:
The efforts made in advising them and guiding them at their places of work.
The questioner:
Yes.
The Shaykh:
And we ask Allah to make the means beneficial in every place, whether they are Indians or not. Efforts are being made to guide these people to good and to teach them. The Muslim increases in knowledge, and the disbeliever, perhaps Allah will guide him until he returns to the truth. We ask Allah to make the means beneficial in
The questioner:
O Allah, amen.
The Shaykh:
As for establishing a special congregation for them, this is a matter of the land. Yes.
Your Eminence the Shaykh! It is not hidden from Your Eminence the number of visitors to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Among these visitors are our brothers from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, and they are Muslims, praise be to Allah. But what is Your Eminence’s opinion if a mosque were designated for them in every neighborhood to perform the Friday prayer in congregation, with the imam being Pakistani or Indian? This would spread the benefit, and perhaps the sermons would benefit them. They attend Friday prayer, and the imam delivers the sermon, but they do not understand what he is saying because it is in Arabic, and they do not understand Arabic. You find most of them talking while the imam is delivering the sermon. And unfortunately, even if we guide them to this, it is not permissible, so they do not understand. We know that there are Pakistanis among them who are proficient in Arabic and have memorized the entire Qur'an. We ask that this idea be adopted, and may Allah reward you with the best reward for us and for them.
The Shaykh:
The efforts made in advising them and guiding them at their places of work.
The questioner:
Yes.
The Shaykh:
And we ask Allah to make the means beneficial in every place, whether they are Indians or not. Efforts are being made to guide these people to good and to teach them. The Muslim increases in knowledge, and the disbeliever, perhaps Allah will guide him until he returns to the truth. We ask Allah to make the means beneficial in
The questioner:
O Allah, amen.
The Shaykh:
As for establishing a special congregation for them, this is a matter of the land. Yes.
Source
ندوات الجامع الكبير مع الأسئلة - 54 — archive.org (56:49)
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