The ruling on praying on ring roads and places of sin
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, we see some people praying on the ring roads inside the city. What is the ruling on this prayer? And Abu Sharat, you are hot now like a bath, so one does not pray in it.
Answer:
The default is that the prayer is valid; the default is that the prayer is valid. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: So any pure place is valid for prayer, whether it is on the edge of highways or on the shores of seas. However, the jurists mentioned that places designated for sins and lewd acts, yes, one does not pray in them. For example, a place with images or an image-making shop, a photography studio, one does not pray in it because it is designated for sin, or because images are hung on the walls, one does not pray in it because this involves imitating the pillars of images, the pillars of idols, or a place prepared for drinking intoxicants, may Allah protect us, or for unlawful sexual intercourse, or even some shops prepared for foolishness, backbiting, and talebearing, one does not pray in them because they are places of sin, so one does not pray in them. And perhaps this is from the category of what is disliked, not from the category of what is forbidden; it is from the category of what is disliked. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, we see some people praying on the ring roads inside the city. What is the ruling on this prayer? And Abu Sharat, you are hot now like a bath, so one does not pray in it.
Answer:
The default is that the prayer is valid; the default is that the prayer is valid. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
It was made for you a place of prostration and a place of purity,
دعي لتي الأرض مسجدا وطهرا،
Source
شرح بلوغ المرام من أدلة الأحكام [ صالح الفوزان ]، باب شروط الصلاة — islamhouse.com (1:08:52)
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