Back to search

Is it permissible to pray in a place where alcoholic beverages are sold and their bottles are present, and do the worshippers sin for not inviting others to the congregation or for others not following their example?

1 min readAlso available in العربية

It is impermissible to attend a feast where there is an evil [act] if one cannot remove it. Your attendance at a feast where alcoholic beverages are circulated is impermissible, and you incur sin unless you remove the evil. One of the conditions of faith is not to sit at a table where alcohol is consumed. If one is invited to a feast where there is disobedience [to God] and one is able to denounce it, then attendance and denunciation become obligatory; otherwise, one should not attend. As for praying in a place of disobedience, it is disliked but valid. There is no dislike in praying before the food is served if it does not distract the worshiper, and there is no sin in not praying with them if you pray later and time is not limited. Praying in the presence of food is disliked when time is ample; otherwise, there is no dislike. The summary of the fatwa is that it is impermissible to attend the feast unless one is able to change the evil; otherwise, one is sinful and must repent. The group who prayed in that place committed a disliked act if time was ample, and their prayer is valid. There is no sin for those who did not pray with them if time was ample.

Summarized from the full answer at Ftawy · reviewed Sep 2, 2026

Read the full answer on Ftawy