Is it permissible to delay the prayer with the congregation in order to carry out enjoining good and forbidding evil?
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is it permissible to delay the prayer with the congregation in order to carry out enjoining good and forbidding evil?
Answer:
Yes, if the evil does not cease and you cannot control it, and you cannot control the evil unless you go at the time of the congregational prayer, then there is no harm. This is because the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said:Sahih al-Bukhari 2420 So, if the forbidding of the evil and its control depend on this time, there is no objection. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is it permissible to delay the prayer with the congregation in order to carry out enjoining good and forbidding evil?
Answer:
Yes, if the evil does not cease and you cannot control it, and you cannot control the evil unless you go at the time of the congregational prayer, then there is no harm. This is because the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
No doubt, I intended to order somebody to pronounce the Iqama of the (compulsory congregational) prayer
لقد هممت ان امر بالصلاه فتقامThen he ordered a man to lead the people in prayer, and then I would go with men carrying bundles of firewood to a people who do not attend the prayer
ثم امر رجلا يؤم الناس ثم اذهب ومعي رجال معهم حزم من حطب الى قوم لا يشهدون الصلاه
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [130 -521] هل يجوز تأخير الصلاة مع الجماعة من أجل القيام بالأمر بالمعروف والنهي عن المنكر؟ — youtube.com
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