The ruling on praying on a clean bedspread placed over impurity
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Question:
May Allah reward you with good and do you well. After this, we move on to a message sent by a listener who says: Your brother in Allah, Yusuf al-Nur Adam Abu Basawi, a Sudanese resident in the Kingdom. Our brother has a number of issues, among which he says: If I know that there is a place where I find impurity, and then I spread a clean bedspread over it, such as a carpet or the like, and I pray, is my prayer considered valid?
Answer:
And his prayer is valid; there is no harm in it. If you spread something clean over a place that is impure and pray on it, then your prayer is valid, because this clean thing stands between you and the impurity. However, some scholars dislike this act; they dislike it as a disliked act of avoidance (makruh tanzih), but it is not forbidden (haram).
May Allah reward you with good and do you well. After this, we move on to a message sent by a listener who says: Your brother in Allah, Yusuf al-Nur Adam Abu Basawi, a Sudanese resident in the Kingdom. Our brother has a number of issues, among which he says: If I know that there is a place where I find impurity, and then I spread a clean bedspread over it, such as a carpet or the like, and I pray, is my prayer considered valid?
Answer:
And his prayer is valid; there is no harm in it. If you spread something clean over a place that is impure and pray on it, then your prayer is valid, because this clean thing stands between you and the impurity. However, some scholars dislike this act; they dislike it as a disliked act of avoidance (makruh tanzih), but it is not forbidden (haram).
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، نور على الدرب 112 من المجموعة الأولى للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (12:23)
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