What is the guidance regarding what one of them wrote in one of the newspapers, stating: “Closing shops during prayer is a bid'ah (religious innovation)”
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. These are many questions, may Allah preserve you, on one single topic, which is what one of the newspapers published in an article today by a person who says that closing commercial shops during prayer is a bid'ah (religious innovation), and there is no evidence for it,
The Shaykh:
and there is no evidence for it, la ilaha illa Allah, and it is also a bid'ah (religious innovation). There is no problem; this is an ignorant person, a compound ignoramus, yes.
The presenter:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
This is his statement, and he refutes it himself. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. These are many questions, may Allah preserve you, on one single topic, which is what one of the newspapers published in an article today by a person who says that closing commercial shops during prayer is a bid'ah (religious innovation), and there is no evidence for it,
The Shaykh:
and there is no evidence for it, la ilaha illa Allah, and it is also a bid'ah (religious innovation). There is no problem; this is an ignorant person, a compound ignoramus, yes.
The presenter:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
This is his statement, and he refutes it himself. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [683 -939] ما التوجيه حول ما كتبه أحدهم في إحدى الصحف يقول: إن إغلاق المحلات وقت الصلاة بدعة.. — youtube.com
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