Is there anything excepted from the prohibition of stepping over people’s heads in the mosque?

The questioner : All right, the author excepts from this issue, yes, Ibn Dawud. Proceed to your group. This is one, and there are others. Come on, you two.

The Shaykh : Or the imam. All right, is the exception for the imam absolute or restricted? The exception for the imam, O people,

The questioner : if he finds a gap inside the mosque.

The Shaykh : How does the imam find a gap? The imam does not find a gap.

The questioner : The path, I mean. He can enter through it to

The Shaykh : his place.

The questioner : Yes. This is permissible.

The Shaykh : If he finds a path by which he can reach his place.

The questioner : I mean, it is not permissible, why did he stand up?

The Shaykh : No, it is not permissible to step over people, but if he does not find a way, it is permissible out of necessity, is that not so? All right, we said out of necessity, and we also said that the people are not harmed by it, because they excuse him; they know his excuse. All right,