Being Distracted from Prayer by Supporting Clubs
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Your Eminence! What is your opinion of those who support sports clubs during the prayers and are lazy about performing the prayers?The Shaykh: Do they support the clubs and attend them, or do they not attend them?The questioner: They attend them.
The Shaykh: They support them and attend them, and they do not perform the prayer.
The questioner: They are lazy about performing the prayers.
The Shaykh: I see that these people have lost their worldly life and their Hereafter, for they have not benefited from their work except this amusement and play, and they have wasted the prayer, which is the greatest pillar of Islam after the two testimonies. If you know them, may Allah reward you with good, then advise them and say: Fear Allah, these clubs do not benefit you.
But I say: And praise be to Allah, in the clubs now there are righteous young men who embrace the youth and guide them, and when the time for prayer comes, they pray.Meaning: We do not rule that all clubs are not upright; rather, some of the clubs contain much good.
The Shaykh: They support them and attend them, and they do not perform the prayer.
The questioner: They are lazy about performing the prayers.
The Shaykh: I see that these people have lost their worldly life and their Hereafter, for they have not benefited from their work except this amusement and play, and they have wasted the prayer, which is the greatest pillar of Islam after the two testimonies. If you know them, may Allah reward you with good, then advise them and say: Fear Allah, these clubs do not benefit you.
But I say: And praise be to Allah, in the clubs now there are righteous young men who embrace the youth and guide them, and when the time for prayer comes, they pray.Meaning: We do not rule that all clubs are not upright; rather, some of the clubs contain much good.