What is the ruling on performing the obligatory prayers in protest squares when there are mosques nearby, and what is your advice to those who come from distant places to pray there?
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Our advice to everyone is to fear Allah and to diligently perform prayers in the mosques, for they were built for prayer. Indeed, a group of scholars who deem congregational prayer obligatory have gone so far as to say it is obligatory to perform it in the mosque. There is no disagreement among them that performing it in the mosques is better than performing it elsewhere.
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