If the road to the mosque is asphalt, is it permissible to pray in sandals (unclear)?
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The questioner : ... Of course ... but now, the streets in Jordan, for example, it is permissible ... public restrooms, it is permissible ... .
The Shaykh : May Allah forgive you, yes.
The questioner : But you pass by and find yourself walking on asphalt, not on dirt.
The Shaykh : Yes
The questioner : Does the same ruling apply to him?
The Shaykh : And then
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : And then ... .
The questioner : ... Is it permissible for him to enter the mosque
The Shaykh : from ... the mosque?
The questioner : Meaning
The Shaykh : Be realistic, you ... reality
The questioner : Is it permissible that
The Shaykh : I am asking you a question
The questioner : Please go ahead.
The Shaykh : He enters from the asphalt ... the mosque
The questioner : Yes
The Shaykh : And where is this?
The questioner : This is happening
The Shaykh : This is not happening at all, especially when you gave the example of the mosque
Another questioner : If it happens, Professor
The Shaykh : Be patient
The questioner : This is happening, of course, not ... in the mosque, he passes by ... I want to pray
The Shaykh : The mosque door, which they call the Haram door
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Good.
The questioner : This is the matter
The Shaykh : What is with the neighborhood gate?
The questioner : Of course, I gave you an example ... an example I saw with my own eyes
The Shaykh : Very well.
The questioner : ... Riyadh, in the Grand Mosque
The Shaykh : Very well.
The questioner : The imam of the mosque, one of the blind students of Shaykh Ibn Baz, it is permissible, do you know him?
The Shaykh : How would I not know him?!
The questioner : He passes from the back of the mosque in his sandals to the place of the mihrab
The Shaykh : Good, may Allah give him health
Another questioner : Amen, O Lord
The questioner : This is what I want to ask about so that I can be at ease ... .
The Shaykh : What does the dirt do to the sandal? Did you notice just now, it does not drag ... what is in ... right?
The questioner : Right, ... .
The Shaykh : Yes?
The questioner : ... I want to say, meaning
The Shaykh : Excuse me, do not waste our time, I am asking you a simple question now, right? You said right, or you said not right. I asked you, what does the dirt do to the sandals? Does it pull the moisture from the sandal?
The questioner : No.
The Shaykh : Say no
The questioner : No.
The Shaykh : Okay, now, contrary to what you understand from your words regarding the Al-Hussein Mosque, you gave an example of a mosque where all the ground to the door is asphalt
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Okay, the asphalt, when you do this, let us assume also that there is no dust at all
The questioner : No, there is dust
The Shaykh : Okay, is it permissible to bring me this picture ... rain, hey, pay attention, is it permissible to bring me a picture where it rained and washed it, the asphalt became ... is that not so? When you do this with the sandal, it should be one of two things: the sandal has impurity with substance, okay, or there is no impurity with substance. If it is the first case, meaning there is impurity with substance in the sandal, when you rub the sandal with the asphalt that the rain just washed and immediately the sun came out, it is completely clean. When he did this, did the substance of the impurity remain or not? In the asphalt? Answer me? What happened to the substance of the impurity
The questioner : ... Never mind, let me ... on the subject of the shoe
The questioner : The shoe has a heel and the heel has something low, there is a space between them
The Shaykh : Good.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Okay, ... the matter until it is resolved, but this question is not within the scope of reality, but ... you are not doing this calculation
The questioner : Because the problems
The Shaykh : ... the person who is fighting and the enemy is pressuring him, so what does he take? New fortifications because he is being defeated at first. You gave me an example of a mosque, what is it that ... the asphalt to what? The mosque door, I do not know where you got this from. You brought me a second picture that was not in your mind, why? Because it became clear to you that it was a mistake. Why all these complications? When you bring this last picture, I remind you of the hadith, perhaps you memorized itSunan ad-Darimi 2:188 Okay, he turned his sandals over, stood up, and saw the view that you saw, and it did not occur to us what is under the heel, between the heel
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, what is the ruling in this case? Will the Shari'ah say pray? I am asking you now, and unfortunately, do not take it against me if I say to you, do not prolong the Shari'ah a little. What is the ruling?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : I told you ... I told you, there is a glass here, what is it worth
The questioner : He removes it and prays
The Shaykh : ... What is the problem? What did you benefit? What did you gain from all this going around and around?
The questioner : I mean...
The Shaykh : My brother, a clear going around and around, you do not mean ... this is our brother here, always with us, sitting with us. I am talking about what is missing from us. What did you benefit from these questions? No ... what ... this point, what did you benefit? You do not pray ... and Allah is sufficient for the believers in fighting
But engage in the matters that frequently occur and take ... the Shari'ah allowed, facilitated, is broad, etc. So why did you come and follow up on the matter ... to reach a point where you were embarrassed from it? ... and the Messenger (peace be upon him), as came from Ibn Umar and others, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to pray barefoot and wearing sandals
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : ... A difficult and narrow situation, it is necessary to remove the sandals ... we did not reverse the matter, we did not say that it is not permissible for one to pray barefoot, but we say it is permissible to pray wearing sandals, because the scholars fight against praying in sandals, meaning a very strange fighting, even in our country, we in Albania, we transferred the custom to Syria, to Damascus, because it is in their minds that praying in sandals is not permissible, and sometimes they are embarrassed because they cannot reconcile some of the jurisprudential texts they have with other texts, so there is a contradiction. They say in their books and their saying, the truth is that the Sunnah is to pray the funeral prayer outside the mosque, and they are stricter in this issue than necessary. And you know from the rulings of funerals that the Messenger (peace be upon him) prays over the funeral in the prayer ground, but sometimes he prayed in the mosque. And this is what we attribute to Allah, the Hanafis, except outside the mosque. And therefore they take a good custom, every cemetery has a prayer ground next to it ... to the graves, so they pray the funeral there, and then they bring the funeral to bury it. Yes, but this does not always happen, especially in these countries they migrated to, and they do not have this care. What do they do? In summary, our Albanian group, they will tell them a place near the cemetery, they will take off their sandals and step on them. Here is the point, they take off their sandals, they take off their sandals and step on them. Why did you take them off? Praying in sandals is not permissible because it is impure. Okay, why ... on them ... they do not want to step on the ground, they do not know if this ground is pure ... impure, meaning a very strange phenomenon.
Even Allah helped them with Al-Albani, and they saw the amazing from him, hehe, not only ... on a funeral, an obligatory prayer, he used to pray it in his sandals. The point is, the Sunnah is to pray sometimes barefoot, sometimes wearing sandals. So if a rare situation comes like what you detailed in the picture, take them off and pray ... but why do we take them off, and why do we deny these Najdis, for example, really, he is walking in his sandals to the middle of the mosque. In reality, Subhan Allah, meaning people are followers of customs. How is our group that I told you about, that they pray in the prayer ground and ... .
The Shaykh : May Allah forgive you, yes.
The questioner : But you pass by and find yourself walking on asphalt, not on dirt.
The Shaykh : Yes
The questioner : Does the same ruling apply to him?
The Shaykh : And then
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : And then ... .
The questioner : ... Is it permissible for him to enter the mosque
The Shaykh : from ... the mosque?
The questioner : Meaning
The Shaykh : Be realistic, you ... reality
The questioner : Is it permissible that
The Shaykh : I am asking you a question
The questioner : Please go ahead.
The Shaykh : He enters from the asphalt ... the mosque
The questioner : Yes
The Shaykh : And where is this?
The questioner : This is happening
The Shaykh : This is not happening at all, especially when you gave the example of the mosque
Another questioner : If it happens, Professor
The Shaykh : Be patient
The questioner : This is happening, of course, not ... in the mosque, he passes by ... I want to pray
The Shaykh : The mosque door, which they call the Haram door
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Good.
The questioner : This is the matter
The Shaykh : What is with the neighborhood gate?
The questioner : Of course, I gave you an example ... an example I saw with my own eyes
The Shaykh : Very well.
The questioner : ... Riyadh, in the Grand Mosque
The Shaykh : Very well.
The questioner : The imam of the mosque, one of the blind students of Shaykh Ibn Baz, it is permissible, do you know him?
The Shaykh : How would I not know him?!
The questioner : He passes from the back of the mosque in his sandals to the place of the mihrab
The Shaykh : Good, may Allah give him health
Another questioner : Amen, O Lord
The questioner : This is what I want to ask about so that I can be at ease ... .
The Shaykh : What does the dirt do to the sandal? Did you notice just now, it does not drag ... what is in ... right?
The questioner : Right, ... .
The Shaykh : Yes?
The questioner : ... I want to say, meaning
The Shaykh : Excuse me, do not waste our time, I am asking you a simple question now, right? You said right, or you said not right. I asked you, what does the dirt do to the sandals? Does it pull the moisture from the sandal?
The questioner : No.
The Shaykh : Say no
The questioner : No.
The Shaykh : Okay, now, contrary to what you understand from your words regarding the Al-Hussein Mosque, you gave an example of a mosque where all the ground to the door is asphalt
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Okay, the asphalt, when you do this, let us assume also that there is no dust at all
The questioner : No, there is dust
The Shaykh : Okay, is it permissible to bring me this picture ... rain, hey, pay attention, is it permissible to bring me a picture where it rained and washed it, the asphalt became ... is that not so? When you do this with the sandal, it should be one of two things: the sandal has impurity with substance, okay, or there is no impurity with substance. If it is the first case, meaning there is impurity with substance in the sandal, when you rub the sandal with the asphalt that the rain just washed and immediately the sun came out, it is completely clean. When he did this, did the substance of the impurity remain or not? In the asphalt? Answer me? What happened to the substance of the impurity
The questioner : ... Never mind, let me ... on the subject of the shoe
The questioner : The shoe has a heel and the heel has something low, there is a space between them
The Shaykh : Good.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Okay, ... the matter until it is resolved, but this question is not within the scope of reality, but ... you are not doing this calculation
The questioner : Because the problems
The Shaykh : ... the person who is fighting and the enemy is pressuring him, so what does he take? New fortifications because he is being defeated at first. You gave me an example of a mosque, what is it that ... the asphalt to what? The mosque door, I do not know where you got this from. You brought me a second picture that was not in your mind, why? Because it became clear to you that it was a mistake. Why all these complications? When you bring this last picture, I remind you of the hadith, perhaps you memorized it
If one of you comes to the mosque, let him turn his sandals over
إذا جاء أحدكم المسجد فليقلب نعليهThe questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, what is the ruling in this case? Will the Shari'ah say pray? I am asking you now, and unfortunately, do not take it against me if I say to you, do not prolong the Shari'ah a little. What is the ruling?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : I told you ... I told you, there is a glass here, what is it worth
The questioner : He removes it and prays
The Shaykh : ... What is the problem? What did you benefit? What did you gain from all this going around and around?
The questioner : I mean...
The Shaykh : My brother, a clear going around and around, you do not mean ... this is our brother here, always with us, sitting with us. I am talking about what is missing from us. What did you benefit from these questions? No ... what ... this point, what did you benefit? You do not pray ... and Allah is sufficient for the believers in fighting
But engage in the matters that frequently occur and take ... the Shari'ah allowed, facilitated, is broad, etc. So why did you come and follow up on the matter ... to reach a point where you were embarrassed from it? ... and the Messenger (peace be upon him), as came from Ibn Umar and others, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to pray barefoot and wearing sandals
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : ... A difficult and narrow situation, it is necessary to remove the sandals ... we did not reverse the matter, we did not say that it is not permissible for one to pray barefoot, but we say it is permissible to pray wearing sandals, because the scholars fight against praying in sandals, meaning a very strange fighting, even in our country, we in Albania, we transferred the custom to Syria, to Damascus, because it is in their minds that praying in sandals is not permissible, and sometimes they are embarrassed because they cannot reconcile some of the jurisprudential texts they have with other texts, so there is a contradiction. They say in their books and their saying, the truth is that the Sunnah is to pray the funeral prayer outside the mosque, and they are stricter in this issue than necessary. And you know from the rulings of funerals that the Messenger (peace be upon him) prays over the funeral in the prayer ground, but sometimes he prayed in the mosque. And this is what we attribute to Allah, the Hanafis, except outside the mosque. And therefore they take a good custom, every cemetery has a prayer ground next to it ... to the graves, so they pray the funeral there, and then they bring the funeral to bury it. Yes, but this does not always happen, especially in these countries they migrated to, and they do not have this care. What do they do? In summary, our Albanian group, they will tell them a place near the cemetery, they will take off their sandals and step on them. Here is the point, they take off their sandals, they take off their sandals and step on them. Why did you take them off? Praying in sandals is not permissible because it is impure. Okay, why ... on them ... they do not want to step on the ground, they do not know if this ground is pure ... impure, meaning a very strange phenomenon.
Even Allah helped them with Al-Albani, and they saw the amazing from him, hehe, not only ... on a funeral, an obligatory prayer, he used to pray it in his sandals. The point is, the Sunnah is to pray sometimes barefoot, sometimes wearing sandals. So if a rare situation comes like what you detailed in the picture, take them off and pray ... but why do we take them off, and why do we deny these Najdis, for example, really, he is walking in his sandals to the middle of the mosque. In reality, Subhan Allah, meaning people are followers of customs. How is our group that I told you about, that they pray in the prayer ground and ... .