Discussion regarding moving the long pulpit in the mosque and what it causes in terms of breaking the row?

The Shaykh : No, by Allah, you do not do it like that. Go back and check; I think he is mistaken. We have absolutely no evidence that the pulpit was in the western side of the Prophet's Mosque. I was speaking with Abu Muhammad and I said recently that the transmission is a proof, and now we affirm this transmission in the Prophet's Mosque. The pulpit in the Prophet's Mosque is in the middle of the mosque, approximately. So moving it to the western side...

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : I think this is, as I said to Abu Muhammad, something some people do to avoid the problem of breaking the row, but this is not what is transmitted.

The questioner : Then the issue becomes that the best is for the pulpit to be movable; meaning, three steps, they put it down like this, on the basis that on ordinary days, so that they do not break the row. Then, until the issue of the mihrab is raised; that the protrusion of the mihrab...

The Shaykh : Why does it not break the row here when it is on the Sunnah?!

The questioner : If it is, but it does not break; because there is no need... and consequently.

The Shaykh : This is it, so for what reason is it movable?

The questioner : Meaning, the issue was raised that it is movable, and then there is the issue of the mihrab, its protrusion outward. Most people really assume that this exists, and the best is that it does not exist, that this is not the mihrab. May Allah reward him, even the one who... then it was said on the basis that people are now pushing the mihrab a little to the west so that the imam stands there, and consequently saves a row, because if the imam... and truly the matter... saves a row.

The Shaykh : Here they think about saving the row, but with the long pulpit that breaks the rows, they do not think about it, so religion has become a whim! ...