The ruling on prohibiting prayer in the mosque until a cow is slaughtered
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Question:
This is a questioner from Africa who says: When the construction of the mosque or the grand mosque is completed with us, it is not permissible to pray in this mosque or to deliver the sermon until a cow or sheep is purchased, then slaughtered and fed to the congregation. Without this, they claim among us that the imam of the mosque will die before his appointed time if he prays in it without doing so.
Answer:
We say: This is from superstitions and from falsehood. A mosque is inhabited for prayer, and they do not pray in it because of the bid'ah (religious innovation) or shirk (associating partners with Allah) that is done. We ask Allah for safety. This is all falsehood, mixing the truth with falsehood. Yes.
This is a questioner from Africa who says: When the construction of the mosque or the grand mosque is completed with us, it is not permissible to pray in this mosque or to deliver the sermon until a cow or sheep is purchased, then slaughtered and fed to the congregation. Without this, they claim among us that the imam of the mosque will die before his appointed time if he prays in it without doing so.
Answer:
We say: This is from superstitions and from falsehood. A mosque is inhabited for prayer, and they do not pray in it because of the bid'ah (religious innovation) or shirk (associating partners with Allah) that is done. We ask Allah for safety. This is all falsehood, mixing the truth with falsehood. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم الاعتقاد بوجوب ذبح ذبيحة قبل افتتاح المساجد؟ لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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