The ruling on keeping an imam who smokes and sleeps through some of the prayers
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: We are workers living in a rural area, and we have a prayer hall with an imam from among us. However, this imam, who is the most memorized of the Qur'an among us, is a smoker and sleeps through some of the prayers. Should we continue to keep him as our imam, or should we replace him with someone else?
Answer:
Replace him with someone else if you find another. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: We are workers living in a rural area, and we have a prayer hall with an imam from among us. However, this imam, who is the most memorized of the Qur'an among us, is a smoker and sleeps through some of the prayers. Should we continue to keep him as our imam, or should we replace him with someone else?
Answer:
Replace him with someone else if you find another. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 57 من 86 /شرح كتاب إغاثة اللهفان في مصائد الشيطان/غناء البغايا/صالح الفوزان/العقيدة/كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:13:10)
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