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Is it permissible for the imam of the mosque to remove workers who have a bad smell from the row so that they pray in the last row by themselves?

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This is a question from outside this country. He says: Is it permissible for the imam to remove workers who have a bad smell from the row? If he removes them and orders them to pray behind the rows by themselves, or in the rear courtyard where they can see him but cannot hear him, is this action valid?

Answer:
No, do not drive people away from the prayer. Do not drive them away, but guide them. Say to them: Whoever comes to the mosque should make his smell pleasant, clean himself, and apply perfume. Guide them to this. As for driving them out of the mosque or out of the first row, that is driving them away, and perhaps they will not pray at all. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [1269 /1350]هل يجوز لإمام المسجد أن يخرج العمال الذين بهم رائحة كريهة من الصف ليصلوا آخر الصف وحدهم؟ — youtube.com

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