The ruling on entering the mosque with wet sandals

Question:
May Allah greet you. Allah is the Greatest. He says: I work in the Kingdom at a military college, and I notice that during the adhan for the Zuhr prayer, the soldiers enter the restrooms wearing their military shoes, perform wudu by wiping over the shoes, and then enter the mosque without removing those shoes, praying directly in them. We observe that these shoes leave wet footprints on the mosque mats, which leaves a bad impression on some of us. Therefore, we prefer to pray in a place other than the mosque, even though we also pray in congregation. What is your Eminence’s opinion? And what is the best solution to this issue?

Answer:
The matter, if Allah wills, we ask those who know about it. Yes. Yes. Allah in Islam, yes. I buy cars and sell them on installment, but I buy them from the owner. That is because the issue is general: these people enter the restroom; they should enter a special area where they can remove them. When he goes to the mosque, he should enter with clean feet so as not to disturb people, if the carpet is not harmed by the sand, dirt, or moisture; because this drives people away from praying on it, and drives people away from the congregation. So he should enter with his two clean feet so as not to disturb people. However, if the mosque is paved with gravel, sand, or the like, he is not affected by entering with his sandals if they are clean. For this reason, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, when he prayed in his sandals one day and Jibril alerted him that there was something in them, he removed them. He said: If one experiences a state of ritual impurity and wipes, let him look. If he sees dirt or something in the sandals, let him wipe it off and then pray in them. And he said: Differ from the Jews, for they do not wipe their sandals. This is if they are clean and sound. But today, it is not hidden from anyone that most people do not care, do not pay attention to them, and do not look at them. Also, the mosques are now carpeted with clean carpets, so people need to be encouraged to pray. If he steps on them with his sandals containing dirt or filth, it becomes a deterrent for them from praying. He wants a voluntary prayer, he wants the virtue of praying in the sandals, and what happens from him is worse than that: separating people from the congregational prayer, and soiling the spread carpets. So it is not permissible for a believer to seek a virtue while committing something greater than driving people away from congregational prayer, or soiling the mosque carpets. And with the observation we mentioned, which is that you or so-and-so or so-and-so, if you assumed that you checked your sandals or that he checked them, but most people, and most of the people, do not check them, and they do not care about the state of their sandals, and they step on the carpet with them without checking. So if he puts them in the sandal area, or at the mosque doors, or in the special areas, so as not to drive people away from congregational prayer, and so as not to soil their carpets for them, this is the most suitable, considering the most suitable and most comprehensive matter.