The ruling on praying at home or at work and leaving the congregational prayer

Q: What is your advice for our brothers who pray in their places and at their workplaces?

A: Whoever hears the call to prayer, let him respond. It is obligatory for Muslims to respond to the caller to prayer if there is no valid religious excuse. It is established that a blind man said to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him): "I have no guide to lead me to the mosque, so do I have a dispensation to pray in my house?" The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to him: He said: Yes. He said: .
So this is a blind man to whom the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) responded by saying: . In another wording, he said: .
So it is obligatory for Muslims to pray with the congregation in the mosques. Whoever lags behind without a valid religious excuse has imitated the hypocrites; due to the statement of Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) : "Whoever likes to meet Allah tomorrow as a Muslim, let him maintain these five prayers where they are called for, for Allah has prescribed for His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) the sunnahs of guidance, and these are among the sunnahs of guidance. If you were to pray in your houses as this laggard prays in his house, you would have abandoned the sunnah of your Prophet, and if you abandoned the sunnah of your Prophet, you would have gone astray—and in another wording, you would have become disbelievers—and I have seen us, and none lagged behind them except a known hypocrite—and in another wording, or a sick person."
So this is Abdullah ibn Mas'ud, who is among the great Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) , saying: "None lags behind the congregational prayer except a hypocrite or a sick person." This indicates that it is obligatory for the believer to strive to perform the prayer in congregation and to beware of the characteristics of the hypocrites. And success is from Allah.