Going to drink water during the Friday sermon
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: I am the khatib (sermon giver) in a mosque in the city of Riyadh, and there is a refrigerator at the back of the mosque containing bottles of water. Some of the worshippers go to it during the Friday sermon, take water from it, and drink it. His question is: Should I forbid this action, or is there nothing wrong with it during the sermon?
Answer:
Alert them to this. Say: During the sermon, no one stands up or moves without necessity, without a pressing need. So he remains until the sermon ends or the prayer ends, then he goes and drinks, and he will not, and will not, be harmed, if Allah wills. When the sermon begins, movement and speech are cut off, and one turns to listening and paying attention to the sermon. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: I am the khatib (sermon giver) in a mosque in the city of Riyadh, and there is a refrigerator at the back of the mosque containing bottles of water. Some of the worshippers go to it during the Friday sermon, take water from it, and drink it. His question is: Should I forbid this action, or is there nothing wrong with it during the sermon?
Answer:
Alert them to this. Say: During the sermon, no one stands up or moves without necessity, without a pressing need. So he remains until the sermon ends or the prayer ends, then he goes and drinks, and he will not, and will not, be harmed, if Allah wills. When the sermon begins, movement and speech are cut off, and one turns to listening and paying attention to the sermon. Yes.
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب ما يقول إذا فرغ من وضوئه — islamhouse.com (55:23)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.