What is the ruling on passing in front of people praying in the Sacred Mosque?
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Question:
A questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, what is the ruling on passing in front of people praying in the Sacred Mosque?
Answer:
There is nothing wrong with it out of necessity. In the Sacred Mosque, the Prophet’s Mosque, and crowded mosques where there is no path and a person needs to pass through, there is nothing wrong with that.[Al-Hajj 22:78] If you do not pass in front of the people praying, the one standing will be blocked, because prayer in the Sacred Mosque is continuous, and you will not find a place where no one is praying. To remove the hardship, there is no objection to it. This is for those who are not praying behind an imam. As for those praying behind an imam, there is no harm, because the imam’s sutrah serves as a sutrah for those behind him. So if they are praying behind the imam, the imam’s sutrah is sufficient.
A questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, what is the ruling on passing in front of people praying in the Sacred Mosque?
Answer:
There is nothing wrong with it out of necessity. In the Sacred Mosque, the Prophet’s Mosque, and crowded mosques where there is no path and a person needs to pass through, there is nothing wrong with that.
and has not placed upon you in the religion any difficulty
وَمَا جَعَلَ عَلَيْكُمْ فِي الدِّينِ مِنْ حَرَجٍ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم المرور أمام المصلين في المسجد الحرام؟ لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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