Is it permissible to walk and stay on a floor that is above the mosque, while the prayer is being held below us?
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Question:
After this, we move on to a letter whose content is that he speaks about praying behind a floor that is above or overlooks a mosque. The questioner is a student in the third year of secondary school who takes lessons in a building. This building consists of three floors. The first floor is a mosque where the men pray. The second floor is above it, and it is a mosque where the women pray. As for the third floor, it is above the second floor, and it contains the lessons of knowledge and the circles of dhikr. However, I found it difficult in my heart to be on the top floor while the mosque on the bottom floor is holding the 'Asr prayer, and we are receiving the lessons of knowledge on the third floor. I was afraid that this matter is haram, that I walk on the ground where there is a mosque. Is this true, before what I did, or the thing that I did?
Answer:
The matter is not in your walking on a floor above a mosque where there are people praying below; that is an easy matter. But the difficult matter is that the congregation is praying, and you are on this floor, or with you are people who claim that you are studying the lessons and seeking knowledge. Yes.
It is obligatory for you to go down and pray with the congregation. Once the prayer is finished, you go up to your lessons on the roof, on the third floor. It is not permissible for you to remain on this floor on the pretext that you are studying your lessons or receiving knowledge, while you are leaving the attendance of the congregational prayer, and you are in one building and close to one another. It is obligatory for the Muslims to pray in congregation and not to be scattered. Yes.
After this, we move on to a letter whose content is that he speaks about praying behind a floor that is above or overlooks a mosque. The questioner is a student in the third year of secondary school who takes lessons in a building. This building consists of three floors. The first floor is a mosque where the men pray. The second floor is above it, and it is a mosque where the women pray. As for the third floor, it is above the second floor, and it contains the lessons of knowledge and the circles of dhikr. However, I found it difficult in my heart to be on the top floor while the mosque on the bottom floor is holding the 'Asr prayer, and we are receiving the lessons of knowledge on the third floor. I was afraid that this matter is haram, that I walk on the ground where there is a mosque. Is this true, before what I did, or the thing that I did?
Answer:
The matter is not in your walking on a floor above a mosque where there are people praying below; that is an easy matter. But the difficult matter is that the congregation is praying, and you are on this floor, or with you are people who claim that you are studying the lessons and seeking knowledge. Yes.
It is obligatory for you to go down and pray with the congregation. Once the prayer is finished, you go up to your lessons on the roof, on the third floor. It is not permissible for you to remain on this floor on the pretext that you are studying your lessons or receiving knowledge, while you are leaving the attendance of the congregational prayer, and you are in one building and close to one another. It is obligatory for the Muslims to pray in congregation and not to be scattered. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل يجوز السير والمكوث على طابق هو أعلى المسجد، والصلاة تقام أسفلنا؟ — youtube.com
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