What is the ruling on turning churches and Jewish temples into mosques?
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The questioner:
A questioner says: What is the ruling on what Muslims in the West do by turning churches, Jewish temples, and other places of shirk (associating partners with Allah) into mosques?
The Shaykh:
What?
The questioner:
What is the ruling on what Muslims in the West do by turning churches, Jewish temples, and other places of shirk (associating partners with Allah) into mosques?
The Shaykh:
There is no harm in praying in a church if it is pure; there is no barrier to praying in it. If the time for prayer catches up with a person, he prays in it if it is pure and has no images erected in it. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
The Shaykh:
The earth is a mosque and pure. Yes.
A questioner says: What is the ruling on what Muslims in the West do by turning churches, Jewish temples, and other places of shirk (associating partners with Allah) into mosques?
The Shaykh:
What?
The questioner:
What is the ruling on what Muslims in the West do by turning churches, Jewish temples, and other places of shirk (associating partners with Allah) into mosques?
The Shaykh:
There is no harm in praying in a church if it is pure; there is no barrier to praying in it. If the time for prayer catches up with a person, he prays in it if it is pure and has no images erected in it. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
The Shaykh:
The earth is a mosque and pure. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم اتخاذ الكنائس ومعابد اليهود مساجد؟ لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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