What is the ruling regarding my father praying in the first row on a chair, with the back of the chair aligned with the backs of the worshippers, after the Imam asked him to move the chair backward?
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Your father is not at fault for praying on a chair in the first row, and he is not religiously obligated to obey the Imam of the mosque by refraining from praying in the first row and moving to another row.
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