What is the ruling on praying behind a shaven or a smoker?
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The questioner : The last question, if Allah wills, is about a shaven person.
The Shaykh : What is the good news in this last word of yours? What is the good news, O Malik?
The questioner : What is there, our Shaykh?
The Shaykh : Your word, the last question, what is the good news?
The questioner : What?
The Shaykh : What is the sign?
The questioner : Yes, I mean, I am not prolonging the matter on you.
The Shaykh : This is your annoyance, your comfort.
The questioner : May Allah preserve you, and by Allah, O our Shaykh, I am being sincere, a person does not hesitate but to hear the answer from you, by Allah.
The Shaykh : May Allah bless you.
The questioner : Praying behind a person. I am asking you the questions because I hear the answers of my uncle and my father, but I want to take the final answer, the definitive answer from you. The question is: praying behind a shaven person, or for example, in the government office, sometimes the congregation is held and a person prays shaven or smoking, so do we pray behind him or not?
The Shaykh : No, you pray behind him, because first, you do not pray except for Allah. And second, he bears his own sin, so his sin is on his side, not on the side of others.
The questioner : If it is like this.
The Shaykh : Yes, and the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) says
The questioner : Yes. May Allah lengthen your life and keep me, O my sister.
The Shaykh : What is the good news in this last word of yours? What is the good news, O Malik?
The questioner : What is there, our Shaykh?
The Shaykh : Your word, the last question, what is the good news?
The questioner : What?
The Shaykh : What is the sign?
The questioner : Yes, I mean, I am not prolonging the matter on you.
The Shaykh : This is your annoyance, your comfort.
The questioner : May Allah preserve you, and by Allah, O our Shaykh, I am being sincere, a person does not hesitate but to hear the answer from you, by Allah.
The Shaykh : May Allah bless you.
The questioner : Praying behind a person. I am asking you the questions because I hear the answers of my uncle and my father, but I want to take the final answer, the definitive answer from you. The question is: praying behind a shaven person, or for example, in the government office, sometimes the congregation is held and a person prays shaven or smoking, so do we pray behind him or not?
The Shaykh : No, you pray behind him, because first, you do not pray except for Allah. And second, he bears his own sin, so his sin is on his side, not on the side of others.
The questioner : If it is like this.
The Shaykh : Yes, and the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) says
The imam is a guarantor.
إمام ضامن.The questioner : Yes. May Allah lengthen your life and keep me, O my sister.
Source
سلسلة الهدى والنور، المجلس 924 — d3watuna.com (9:23)
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