If the imam accustoms the congregation to shortening the prayer on the grounds of gradual adaptation with them, is that permissible?
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The questioner : If an imam has become accustomed to... they have become accustomed to... to shorten the prayer in a way that invalidates the prayer, then this imam says, "I will gradually adapt them in the recitation so that I can accustom them to the Sunnah of the prayer by shortening it, just as the prayer of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was."
The Shaykh : That means he has started praying with them first with a shortening that invalidates the prayer.
The questioner : It is not invalidating; he is gradually adapting them to the better practice.
The Shaykh : There is no harm, there is no obstacle, there is no harm, there is no obstacle, but on the condition that it is his intention to transition them to the prayer of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him).
The Shaykh : That means he has started praying with them first with a shortening that invalidates the prayer.
The questioner : It is not invalidating; he is gradually adapting them to the better practice.
The Shaykh : There is no harm, there is no obstacle, there is no harm, there is no obstacle, but on the condition that it is his intention to transition them to the prayer of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him).