The ruling on a smoker leading the prayer in a farm
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Question:
This questioner says: We are in a farm and we have many workers, some of whom are not proficient in recitation, and some are proficient in recitation but they smoke. Is it permissible for one of them to lead us in prayer in the farm, given that we are workers and our number is more than twenty?
Answer:
Choose one who does not use tobacco, and, if Allah wills, his prayer and his leading of the prayer will suffice for this. Not one who is a Muslim among you and maintains the prayer, but choose one whom Allah has kept away from tobacco. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh
This questioner says: We are in a farm and we have many workers, some of whom are not proficient in recitation, and some are proficient in recitation but they smoke. Is it permissible for one of them to lead us in prayer in the farm, given that we are workers and our number is more than twenty?
Answer:
Choose one who does not use tobacco, and, if Allah wills, his prayer and his leading of the prayer will suffice for this. Not one who is a Muslim among you and maintains the prayer, but choose one whom Allah has kept away from tobacco. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/041 — archive.org (3:54)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.