The ruling on praying in mosques that have restrooms above them.
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The questioner: Well, in Egypt we haveThe Shaykh : Al-Sha'rawi issued a fatwa that it is not permissible to perform the Friday prayer in mosques built under upper floors?
The Shaykh : Why?
The questioner: I do not know, meaning he said something incomprehensible. He said: the air of the mosque, and the mosque may have rooms.
The Shaykh: up to the seventh heaven.
The questioner: Yes, this naturally caused confusion; because our Salafi brothers do not possess anything but these mosques, meaning that if they were taken from them, they would not be able to pray, so it caused a great deal of confusion. So we need the satisfying answer - if Allah wills - to this question?
The Shaykh: Many of the conditions mentioned regarding some acts of worship, including mosques and the Friday prayer, are in fact stated based on opinion. And opinion, as we all know, includes what is correct and what is incorrect. If an opinion is issued by a scholar who exercises independent legal reasoning and it is incorrect, he is rewarded - and upon you be peace, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings - but an opinion like this, which, after research, is stripped of the compelling evidence to follow it from the Book or the Sunnah or a report from the righteous predecessors, when such an opinion is stripped of any of these proofs, we then direct to it the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him):Sunan Ibn Majah 2521Sahih (Darussalam). We see no objection to building, for example, a school above the mosque, or building a house above the mosque for the imam, the mu'adhdhin, the servant, or the like. But I hold the opinion that the toilet must be on the side, and not above the mosque; this is in the category of honoring the mosques. As for building a structure on the mosque where no sin is committed, there is no objection to it, because the claim that what is above the mosque up to the sky of the world or up to the seven heavens is a mosque is a claim devoid of evidence. And the matter is as it was said:
"And claims, unless you establish upon them *** clear proofs, their claimants are claimants"
This is what I have regarding this issue, and whoever claims otherwise, we ask them for the argument.
Yes.
The Shaykh : Why?
The questioner: I do not know, meaning he said something incomprehensible. He said: the air of the mosque, and the mosque may have rooms.
The Shaykh: up to the seventh heaven.
The questioner: Yes, this naturally caused confusion; because our Salafi brothers do not possess anything but these mosques, meaning that if they were taken from them, they would not be able to pray, so it caused a great deal of confusion. So we need the satisfying answer - if Allah wills - to this question?
The Shaykh: Many of the conditions mentioned regarding some acts of worship, including mosques and the Friday prayer, are in fact stated based on opinion. And opinion, as we all know, includes what is correct and what is incorrect. If an opinion is issued by a scholar who exercises independent legal reasoning and it is incorrect, he is rewarded - and upon you be peace, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings - but an opinion like this, which, after research, is stripped of the compelling evidence to follow it from the Book or the Sunnah or a report from the righteous predecessors, when such an opinion is stripped of any of these proofs, we then direct to it the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him):
Every conditions that is not in the Book of Allah (SWT) is invalid, even if there are one hundred conditions
كلُّ شرطٍ ليس في كتاب الله ؛ فهو باطلٌ ، ولو كان مِائة شرط"And claims, unless you establish upon them *** clear proofs, their claimants are claimants"
This is what I have regarding this issue, and whoever claims otherwise, we ask them for the argument.
Yes.
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