Is it better to follow the imam in combining prayers or to leave the congregation?

The questioner : It is a weather-related issue. There are no weather conditions. You hear or you grant a dispensation for combining. So, for example, some people, I mean, for instance, some people like to combine. They do not like to take the dispensation. So you find, for example, that he leaves the second congregation, for example, combining 'Isha' by advancing it. He goes, or he leaves. From the perspective of what is better. Is it better for him to join the congregation or to separate from it, for example? Because there are people, for example, many of them, for example, there is a difference, and the weather is not cold, it is not cold, so there are discussions. So what is better, for example?

The Shaykh : It is better for him to follow the imam. And to pray with the congregation, especially since this man you are describing is a distracted man. It is not conceivable that he would return to pray the congregational prayer at the second time, which is 'Isha'. So he has lost not only the dispensation, but he has lost the dispensation and the default ruling. The dispensation is leaving the combining, and the default ruling is leaving the congregational prayer of 'Isha'. Is that clear? I see you standing.

The questioner : No, no, no. Actually, there was no difference. The difference was whether the dispensation, for example, is obligatory or not? That the weather, in his opinion, is in a country, but the imam says, for example, I want, for example, to care for the optional state of the people, for example, or the elderly, so I want to combine. He says, no, we do not have to combine. So the difference is, is it better, for example, that he joins the congregation or leaves it, for example, and prays in the shelter? May Allah bless you.

The Shaykh : I gave you the answer, I think. May Allah bless you.

The questioner : And because of that, I am patient. Perhaps another congregation will form and he will pray 'Isha' in it.