Congregation and Mosque
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Which is better for the traveler: shortening the prayer in his place of residence or performing it in full with the congregation in the mosque?
Is it permissible to pray in a mosque in a foreign country if its administrators are not trustworthy in managing donation funds, and nothing can be done about them except to supplicate?
Which is better: to join the imam in the final tashahhud and complete what I missed, or to wait for another congregation? And is the congregation (jama‘ah) attained if I join the imam before his first taslim?
Is it permissible for me to prevent my ten-year-old son from accompanying me to Fajr prayer due to the severe cold?
Is it permissible to participate in collective remembrance (dhikr) and supplication (du'a) after prayer, or to continue praying behind someone who makes errors in recitation, or to pray in congregation at home, or to pray behind someone who makes errors in the silent prayers, given the presence of innovations (bid'ah) and problems in the imamate at a mosque frequented by non-Arab Muslims?
Is filial piety truly prioritized over prayer?
Is it permissible for congregants to pray behind the Imam at different elevations, such as some praying on the floor and others on a bed, if the space does not accommodate congregational prayer uniformly?
What should I do to attain the reward of the Prophet's حديث (Hadith): "Whoever prays Fajr (morning prayer) in congregation, then sits remembering Allah until the sun rises, then prays two rak'ahs, will have a reward like that of a Hajj and an 'Umrah," while repeatedly doing so without causing embarrassment to the mosque's muezzin or feeling ostentatious?
Is it permissible to pray behind an imam who supplicates, seeks assistance, and swears by other than Allah? Is praying in a second congregation in the mosque's antechamber valid? And did Sheikhs Ibn Baz and Ibn Uthaymeen permit that?
Is it permissible for a neighbor of the mosque who lives very close to combine prayers due to rain?
Is it obligatory for one who suffers from constant flatulence due to chronic constipation to attempt purification multiple times or to stay in the restroom for a long time before prayer, or is he considered to have continuous flatulence and should not pay attention to the emission of gas during prayer?
Is fearing leading the second congregational prayer in the mosque – due to apprehension of people’s requests for it and a desire for solitary prayer to prolong it – considered hypocrisy?
What is the ruling on a father's behavior who talks to girls via "Facebook" and refuses to pray in the mosque, citing knee pain as an excuse, and is it considered spying if his children remove the girls from his page, and does the father's role as a role model get affected by these actions?
Does a person praying a fardh prayer receive the full reward of congregational prayer and enter among those who have attained the virtue of the opening takbir for forty days if another person prays with him with the intention of a supererogatory prayer?
Is a qualified person’s failure to step forward to lead the prayer—in a mosque where there is no regular Imam—considered humility on their part, or is there a concern that it might be a forfeiture of good, especially if the one who does step forward to lead is not better than them in memorization or recitation?
Does the supplicant bear the sin of not regularly attending prayers in the mosque after having duplicated the mosque's keys to enable prayer, and does attendance then become obligatory upon him?
What is the ruling on abandoning congregational prayer in the mosque to prevent illicit seclusion (khalwa) if it leads to temptation elsewhere?
Is merely hearing statements about the erroneous beliefs of some worshippers, which indicate their knowledge of the unseen and their ability to benefit or harm, sufficient to prove these beliefs, or must one hear them directly from them? What is the ruling on praying behind such individuals? Is it permissible to pray behind them with the intention of repeating the prayer, or can a second congregation be formed within the first congregation?
Is a single expiation required, or an expiation for each day, from one who swore to pray Fajr in congregation upon hearing the adhan, but then failed to do so?
Is it permissible to return home to awaken one's family for Fajr prayer, and then return to the mosque to attain the reward of Hajj and Umrah, after having already performed the Fajr prayer in congregation at the mosque?
Is it permissible to go pray in a second or third congregation at gas station prayer rooms that have no Imam, and abandon the first congregation in the mosque without an excuse, knowing that praying in a second or third congregation without an excuse has not been authentically reported from the Prophet, may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him, nor from his companions?
What are the five rulings concerning one who catches the last Tashahhud with the Imam?
What is the ruling on an individual praying alone behind the row in congregational prayer if the worshippers intentionally distance themselves from each other in the rows and leave gaps, such that the first row is not completed, then the Imam gathers them together again in a complete row for the Witr and Shafa' prayers? And is this considered an innovation (bid'ah)? And is the prayer invalidated due to the presence of hadiths that mandate the completion of rows?
Is it permissible for a father to pray in congregation at home with his family instead of going to the mosque, in consideration of guests they have or who are visiting them, in application of the saying of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him: "Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day, let him honor his guest"?