His statement: "The chapter on the virtue of facing the qiblah, even though it is obligatory."

Machine translationRead the Arabic original

The questioner : He said: "The virtue of facing the qiblah..."

The Shaykh : What indicates that it is not obligatory will come to us, if Allah wills, in the headings. The virtue in what is obligatory is more emphatic than the virtue in what is recommended, as came in the authentic hadith:

And the most beloved things with which My slave comes nearer to Me, is what I have enjoined upon him

ما تقرب إلي عبدي بشيء أحب إلي مما افترضته عليه

Sahih al-Bukhari 6502

Source alathar.net

The Arabic text is copied verbatim from the original source, without any edits.

Similar fatwas