The ruling on stepping over people to reach the first row in the mosque

The questioner : He says: Honorable Shaykh, we see some of the young men who pray with us. They come and are in the third row, but when they see that you have moved forward, they step over the second row, and perhaps the first, in order to be in the first row. In fact, one of them will put his feet between the legs of the men sitting or standing who are waiting. Yes, they prevent those in the second row from moving forward to the first row, even though they arrived before them. I do not know what your Eminence says about that. May Allah reward you with good.

The Shaykh : What people should do when they enter the mosque is to fill the first row, then the next, and everyone should remain in his place. As for the one who does not have a reserved place, but he prayed and there is a row between him and this open space, and he is waiting for the iqamah of the prayer, and then he moves forward to the first row, there is nothing wrong with that, because it can be said to the second row: Why did you not move forward?
Move forward to the open space, but it is not desirable from the standpoint that this causes the people in the second row to have something against the one who moved ahead of them, meaning they hold a grudge against him. And anything that causes hearts to hold grudges against one another, it should be avoided. So leave the open space for the one who was ahead of you in the second row, and you take his place. Yes.