The deviation of the Hanafis residing in Western countries from their school of jurisprudence regarding the conditions for the validity of the Friday prayer

The Shaykh: As for boasting, if it is permissible to boast about establishing the Sunnah, it is to establish it while a Muslim is a stranger among his own people, his own tribe, and his own fellow Muslims. This is what constitutes establishing it. However, if one is compelled, there is no boasting in that. I say this because I have had the opportunity, for about twenty years, to travel through some of the disbelieving countries in Europe, such as Germany, Britain, and so on. And there, the Hanafis who are strict about their school of jurisprudence establish the prayer: first, in a disbeliever’s land; second, in a rented house, not in a mosque. And these conditions? They have gone and vanished into the wind. Why? Because they felt that in their foreign land, if they left the prayer with the congregation on Friday and... the weekly [prayer], as you know, every week, they felt in their conscience and hearts that, by Allah, this is not reasonable. Especially given the explicitness of the previous verse: This is your brother... .
The student: Basil.

The Shaykh: No, it is not Basil; it is Dr. ... .
The student: Ahmad.

The Shaykh: Ahmad.