The ruling on performing the prayer for rain in a school
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah inform you, the prayer for rain will be held next Monday, if Allah wills. Is it established to perform the prayer for rain in the school as a congregation with the students and teachers at its proper time, given the positive effects this has on the students?
Answer:
What is required in the prayer for rain and the festival prayer is going out, the people of the town going out to one place, if possible, or several places. As for praying in schools, this is not known among the Salaf. They did not disperse and pray, with each person praying in his own place, and each group of people praying in their own place. Rather, they would gather, go out, and go forth, praying together and supplicating to Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He). What is required of Muslims is gathering, gathering. What is not required is dispersing and scattering. So the students are granted a dispensation in the prayer for rain; they go out and pray with the Muslims, and they do not return to dispersing and scattering. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah inform you, the prayer for rain will be held next Monday, if Allah wills. Is it established to perform the prayer for rain in the school as a congregation with the students and teachers at its proper time, given the positive effects this has on the students?
Answer:
What is required in the prayer for rain and the festival prayer is going out, the people of the town going out to one place, if possible, or several places. As for praying in schools, this is not known among the Salaf. They did not disperse and pray, with each person praying in his own place, and each group of people praying in their own place. Rather, they would gather, go out, and go forth, praying together and supplicating to Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He). What is required of Muslims is gathering, gathering. What is not required is dispersing and scattering. So the students are granted a dispensation in the prayer for rain; they go out and pray with the Muslims, and they do not return to dispersing and scattering. Yes.
Source
شرح لمعة الاعتقاد [ صالح الفوزان ]، بداية من قوله : وقال النبي - صلى الله عليه وسلم - لحصين — islamhouse.com (1:01:55)
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