What is your opinion on the statement that "holding some of the scholarly lessons in the rest houses leads to abandoning the mosques"?

The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: In our area, we have established scholarly lessons in the mosques for some of the shaykhs and students of knowledge, based on the Book and the Sunnah. He says: I asked these shaykhs to deliver one of their lessons in the rest houses every month so that the students of knowledge would gather in this rest house and the bond of brotherhood would increase. He says: One of the students of knowledge objected to me regarding this matter, arguing that it leads to abandoning the mosques, and that the method of rest houses and delivering scholarly lessons in them is the method of the partisan groups. So what is your guidance regarding such a statement?

The Shaykh:
Yes, this statement has a point. The lessons should be in the mosques. As for advice and exhortation, there is no harm in you going to the rest house to honor them and remind them. But organizing lessons in the rest houses that deprive the mosques of them, this is not acceptable.

The presenter:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.

The Shaykh:
And his intention is that the partisans are secretive; they do not announce it in the mosques. They go to the rest houses and hidden places and do not announce this in the mosques, because the people disapprove of them for this. Yes.