Designating specific prayer mats for workers in the mosque
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Some of the imams of the mosques place specific mats for the workers and order them not to pray except on them. Is that permissible?
Answer:
Meaning, he separates them from the worshippers and keeps them to themselves? That is not what should be done. I say that is not what should be done, because they may become disgusted and not pray and not come.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Some of the imams of the mosques place specific mats for the workers and order them not to pray except on them. Is that permissible?
Answer:
Meaning, he separates them from the worshippers and keeps them to themselves? That is not what should be done. I say that is not what should be done, because they may become disgusted and not pray and not come.
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب اتخاذ متعبدات الكفار ومواضع القبور إذا نبشت مساجد — islamhouse.com (1:07:20)
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