Is the prayer of one who works in a video club accepted?
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The questioner : If you please, Shaykh, a young man is asking and saying that he works in one of the forbidden jobs and that he wants to...
The Shaykh : What does he do? What does he work in?
The questioner : In forbidden jobs, for example, he works in a video club.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : And he wants to pray, so he is asking whether his prayer is accepted or not, and at the same time, he is not able to leave the club or his job because he needs it?
The Shaykh : No, this statement is not correct.
The questioner : Why is it not correct?
The Shaykh : Because we advise him to remember the saying of his Lord:[At-Talaq 65:2-3]. So your statement that he is unable to leave the job in this place where there is what is forbidden is not correct. However, the prayer is valid in any case, because there is no connection between the validity of the prayer and the defectiveness of the work or the means by which the Muslim earns his livelihood. Our Lord (Mighty and Majestic) says: [Az-Zalzalah 99:7-8]. So if he performs the prayer at its times, with its pillars, conditions, and obligations, it is accepted by Allah, and nothing invalidates it except what he does within the prayer itself that invalidates it. As for if he does a work outside the prayer and this work is forbidden, then it is to his account [Az-Zalzalah 99:7-8].
The Shaykh : What does he do? What does he work in?
The questioner : In forbidden jobs, for example, he works in a video club.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : And he wants to pray, so he is asking whether his prayer is accepted or not, and at the same time, he is not able to leave the club or his job because he needs it?
The Shaykh : No, this statement is not correct.
The questioner : Why is it not correct?
The Shaykh : Because we advise him to remember the saying of his Lord:
And whoever fears Allah - He will make for him a way out (3) And will provide for him from where he does not expect.
وَمَنْ يَتَّقِ اللَّهَ يَجْعَلْ لَهُ مَخْرَجًا * وَيَرْزُقْهُ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَحْتَسِبُ(7) So whoever does an atom's weight of good will see it, (8) And whoever does an atom's weight of evil will see it.
فَمَنْ يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ خَيْرًا يَرَهُ * وَمَنْ يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ شَرًّا يَرَهُ(7) So whoever does an atom's weight of good will see it, (8) And whoever does an atom's weight of evil will see it.
فَمَنْ يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ خَيْرًا يَرَهُ * وَمَنْ يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ شَرًّا يَرَهُ
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