Reconciling Ibn Taymiyyah’s statement on the essential nature of congregational prayer with the caller’s statement, “Pray in your homes.”
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'Umar al-Ashqar: All right, how does Ibn Taymiyyah, who holds that it is an essential pillar, deal with the hadith ?
The Shaykh : As I said, this is a valid legal excuse. I mean, Ibn Taymiyyah himself follows the rules; that is a general rule for him, and this is an exception, like combining the two prayers, for example, in the case of travel or in the case of residence if it is to remove hardship. There is absolutely no contradiction. And therefore, I like a rule of Ibn Hazm, because we mentioned it just now, meaning in response to him now, I like a very good statement from him: when two texts conflict, we exclude the lesser from the greater. This is very beautiful speech, and with it, many, many, very many problems are resolved. We exclude the lesser from the greater, meaning the lesser is opposed to the greater if this lesser is excluded from it, meaning the general and the specific, meaning, but his expression.
Pray in your homes
صلوا في رحالكمThe Shaykh : As I said, this is a valid legal excuse. I mean, Ibn Taymiyyah himself follows the rules; that is a general rule for him, and this is an exception, like combining the two prayers, for example, in the case of travel or in the case of residence if it is to remove hardship. There is absolutely no contradiction. And therefore, I like a rule of Ibn Hazm, because we mentioned it just now, meaning in response to him now, I like a very good statement from him: when two texts conflict, we exclude the lesser from the greater. This is very beautiful speech, and with it, many, many, very many problems are resolved. We exclude the lesser from the greater, meaning the lesser is opposed to the greater if this lesser is excluded from it, meaning the general and the specific, meaning, but his expression.