The ruling on a workplace prayer area and whether it has the rulings of mosques
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: We have a prayer area in our workplace that has mats and loudspeakers,
The Shaykh:
we have.
The questioner:
We have a prayer area in the workplace that has mats and loudspeakers, and prayers are offered in it for all the obligatory prayers, but it does not have an imam; it has no regular imam, and it is subject to removal at any time. His question is: Does this mentioned prayer area have the rulings of other mosques?
The Shaykh:
No, this is a prayer area (musalla), not a mosque. It does not take on, meaning, all the rules of a mosque. It is not a mosque. It is permissible for a menstruating woman to sit in it, and it is permissible to use it as a passageway, and so on. So this is not a mosque; it is a prayer area, and it does not take on the rulings of a mosque.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: We have a prayer area in our workplace that has mats and loudspeakers,
The Shaykh:
we have.
The questioner:
We have a prayer area in the workplace that has mats and loudspeakers, and prayers are offered in it for all the obligatory prayers, but it does not have an imam; it has no regular imam, and it is subject to removal at any time. His question is: Does this mentioned prayer area have the rulings of other mosques?
The Shaykh:
No, this is a prayer area (musalla), not a mosque. It does not take on, meaning, all the rules of a mosque. It is not a mosque. It is permissible for a menstruating woman to sit in it, and it is permissible to use it as a passageway, and so on. So this is not a mosque; it is a prayer area, and it does not take on the rulings of a mosque.
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب المواضع المنهي عنها والمأذون فيها للصلاة — islamhouse.com (48:12)
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