The ruling on praying in a musalla that does not have the rulings of a mosque

Question:
The questioner says: Your Eminence! We have a musalla in the college, where we enter and sit whenever we wish, and we also break our fast there. Some people may sleep there, and a student may enter it without being in a state of ritual purity. What is your opinion on this?

Answer:
It is obligatory for you to pray in the mosques, in the mosque near you whose call to prayer you hear. It is obligatory to pray in the mosque. If that is not possible because the mosques are far from you, then you pray in the musalla that you designate, which does not have the ruling of a mosque. If someone sleeps in it or enters it, it does not have the rulings of mosques. So it is permissible for him to sleep in it. As for the mosque, there is no harm in sleeping in it. A menstruating woman may enter it, and a person in a state of major ritual impurity may enter it without blame; because it is not a mosque. The musalla is not a mosque. Yes.

The presenter: May Allah reward you.