A traveler who missed the Friday prayer because the imam is an innovator?
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The questioner : A traveler who missed the Friday prayer because the imam of the Friday prayer is an innovator?
The Shaykh : Does this innovation constitute disbelief or open sinfulness?
The questioner : It constitutes disbelief.
The Shaykh : It constitutes disbelief? If it constitutes disbelief, then neither the traveler nor the resident should pray with him, because the prayer of one who commits an innovation that entails disbelief is invalid. Yes, that is correct.
The questioner : May Allah reward you... May He make this in the cause of Allah...
The Shaykh : In the verse regarding charity? Because he is the one who needs the money, and through it the community is supported; it is jihad in the cause of Allah, the expedition.
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : It is as I told you, because the one who needs the money... the original purpose of zakah is to meet needs, and we cannot say that every avenue of good meets needs, while the poor are dying of hunger and we leave them to build mosques and repair roads and the like.
The questioner : ....
The Shaykh : Everything is according to its due.
The Shaykh : Does this innovation constitute disbelief or open sinfulness?
The questioner : It constitutes disbelief.
The Shaykh : It constitutes disbelief? If it constitutes disbelief, then neither the traveler nor the resident should pray with him, because the prayer of one who commits an innovation that entails disbelief is invalid. Yes, that is correct.
The questioner : May Allah reward you... May He make this in the cause of Allah...
The Shaykh : In the verse regarding charity? Because he is the one who needs the money, and through it the community is supported; it is jihad in the cause of Allah, the expedition.
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : It is as I told you, because the one who needs the money... the original purpose of zakah is to meet needs, and we cannot say that every avenue of good meets needs, while the poor are dying of hunger and we leave them to build mosques and repair roads and the like.
The questioner : ....
The Shaykh : Everything is according to its due.