What is the ruling on students performing the prayer for rain in schools due to their limited time?
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: If I cannot perform the prayer for rain except in the school with the students, due to the tightness of time, since the school principal has decided that the prayer for rain will be held in the school this Monday, should I pray with them or not?
Answer:
By Allah, we neither order them nor forbid them. We neither order them nor forbid them. This is their own responsibility. The prayer for rain, the festival prayer, and the Friday prayer. Muslims gather for these. They do not disperse. They do not disperse in schools and homes. Gathering and going out for the prayer for rain is required. Muslims gather and supplicate together and do not disperse. This is the default. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: If I cannot perform the prayer for rain except in the school with the students, due to the tightness of time, since the school principal has decided that the prayer for rain will be held in the school this Monday, should I pray with them or not?
Answer:
By Allah, we neither order them nor forbid them. We neither order them nor forbid them. This is their own responsibility. The prayer for rain, the festival prayer, and the Friday prayer. Muslims gather for these. They do not disperse. They do not disperse in schools and homes. Gathering and going out for the prayer for rain is required. Muslims gather and supplicate together and do not disperse. This is the default. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [414 -858] ما حكم إقامة الطلاب في المدارس صلاة الاستسقاء وذلك لضيق الوقت عندهم؟ — youtube.com
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