The Ruling on Congregational Prayer for Those with Unpleasant Odors

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Answer:
That is, it means not harming people with an unpleasant odor. One should wash, use perfume, and strive to control oneself. It does not mean that he...

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Answer: ...should strive, he should strive. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered the one who eats garlic or onions not to enter the mosque, but to pray in his home, in his place, not to pray with the Muslims, and not to harm them.

Question: For how many days, O Shaykh?

Answer: Until the odor disappears.

The student: Once it disappears, does he enter?

Answer: Yes.

Question: As for his saying forty days, or more?

Answer: There is no fixed limit; the limit is the disappearance of the odor. And if he intentionally eats it so that he does not pray, he is to be disciplined.

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Answer: They all pray, with their odors, in their tents, without harming people, or they do not wash and clean themselves... the washing... so that they do not harm the Muslims, if the odor is apparent and harms those around them.