Permissibility of missing the congregational prayer if the mosque is very far away

Q: A questioner from Bahrain says: We have an orchard that is about twenty to thirty kilometers from us. I go there after the 'Asr prayer with my brother, and we pray Maghrib in the orchard, and I am the imam for him. Sometimes we pray in congregation if some of my brothers and friends are present. I am unable to go to the mosque because the mosques near us are for specific groups that you know about, and they pray late. It is not possible to return to our area due to the tightness of time and the danger of the street, which is crowded with children and cars. If I went out for prayer half an hour early, I would catch the prayer in the mosque, but this would cause me to lose supervision of the workers, who are Sikhs and do not have the protection of a dhimmi. Is my prayer valid? And what is the ruling on workers who are not of the religion of Islam?

A: If the situation is as you described, there is no blame on you for praying in the orchard with your brother and with whoever is present with you. As for praying with the people of innovation you mentioned, do not pray with them, because they are not fit to be imams for you, and you cannot be imams for them. However, if it is facilitated for you to be imams for them and pray with them, there is nothing wrong with it, but it is not fitting for an imam to be from the people of innovation for the people of the Sunnah. But there is no blame on you for praying Maghrib and 'Isha' in the orchard, you and whoever is present with you, because of your distance from the mosques of the people of the Sunnah.
As for the presence of Sikhs as workers, it is obligatory for you to employ Muslims, because your country, Bahrain, is part of the Arabian Peninsula, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) advised to expel the disbelievers from it. What I advise you is to bring in Muslims and to remove the workers who are disbelievers, whether they are Sikhs, or Christians, or Hindus, or others. It is obligatory to remove the disbelievers and to bring in Muslims and employ them in the lands of the Muslims, especially in the Arabian Peninsula, because the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered the removal of the disbelievers from it and advised at his death to expel the disbelievers from this peninsula.
So it is obligatory for you, O brothers, in every place to employ Muslims rather than disbelievers. This is not specific to you; rather, his (peace and blessings be upon him) advice is for all the people of the peninsula, in Bahrain, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in Qatar, in Kuwait, in the United Arab Emirates, in Yemen, and in every place in the peninsula. It is obligatory to remove the disbelievers and to bring in Muslims for the need in work, and they are more deserving of your benefit and more deserving of your wealth than the disbelievers. But if Allah guides a disbeliever and he becomes a Muslim through your hands, there is nothing wrong with his remaining if he has become a Muslim. And it is permissible to bring a disbeliever to this peninsula for a temporary, stronger interest that the one in authority sees, as the scholars have stated.
We ask Allah for guidance for everyone.