The Ruling on Praying in a Warehouse or Residential Unit
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The questioner:
Several questions ask about praying in places other than mosques, such as a factory quarter or a residential unit, or someone says it is a warehouse quarter and more than two hundred people pray there. So, is this considered a mosque or
The Shaykh:
It is not a mosque. No, they have no right to the mosque, to the greeting of the mosque, or to sitting in it. No, they have no right to the mosque, and they are not to pray in it. The mosques are close by. In fact, it is obligatory for them to pray in the mosques: the main mosque, or the hospital mosque, or one nearby. It is obligatory for the authorities to order them to do so. If they do not make the prayer, they should all pray together in one place in the mosque, which serves the function of a mosque until a mosque is built, or if the mosque is far from them, or if a mosque is nearby, or in the mosque, in a visiting mosque, or in the hospital mosque, or similar, it is obligatory for them to pray together. And what is obligatory is that they pray in the other prayer halls or in the streets. No, Allah has made it obligatory for them to pray in congregation and to pray in the mosques. So there is no excuse for delaying that, except in preserving life, sitting in the mosques, or going to what they can bear, so we all pray in a right place or a right place until it is prepared for the Messenger of Allah.
The presenter:
This may be a problem between your people and your tribe.
The Shaykh:
For example, the women.
Several questions ask about praying in places other than mosques, such as a factory quarter or a residential unit, or someone says it is a warehouse quarter and more than two hundred people pray there. So, is this considered a mosque or
The Shaykh:
It is not a mosque. No, they have no right to the mosque, to the greeting of the mosque, or to sitting in it. No, they have no right to the mosque, and they are not to pray in it. The mosques are close by. In fact, it is obligatory for them to pray in the mosques: the main mosque, or the hospital mosque, or one nearby. It is obligatory for the authorities to order them to do so. If they do not make the prayer, they should all pray together in one place in the mosque, which serves the function of a mosque until a mosque is built, or if the mosque is far from them, or if a mosque is nearby, or in the mosque, in a visiting mosque, or in the hospital mosque, or similar, it is obligatory for them to pray together. And what is obligatory is that they pray in the other prayer halls or in the streets. No, Allah has made it obligatory for them to pray in congregation and to pray in the mosques. So there is no excuse for delaying that, except in preserving life, sitting in the mosques, or going to what they can bear, so we all pray in a right place or a right place until it is prepared for the Messenger of Allah.
The presenter:
This may be a problem between your people and your tribe.
The Shaykh:
For example, the women.
Source
التعاون على البر والتقوى 2 — islamhouse.com (28:45)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.