Congregation and Mosque
1,833 questions
Is it permissible to pray Fajr while experiencing intermittent سلس (urinary incontinence), and is a person considered negligent regarding Fajr prayer if sleep overwhelms them after waiting for the سلس to cease?
Is it permissible for a person praying alone who suffers from irritable bowel syndrome to pray alone if he experiences severe noises and rumbling in his abdomen that cause him extreme embarrassment during prayer?
What is the ruling on leaving the mosque and abandoning prayer behind an Imam when you know with certainty that he falsified his certificate of memorizing the Holy Qur’an?
Is it permissible for a worshiper who frequently experiences flatulence and urethral discharge to repeat the prayer at home before going to pray with the congregation, in anticipation of his ablution being nullified during his prayer?
What is the ruling on the intrusive thought (waswas) of not joining the second or third congregational prayer due to fear of the imam's speed in bowing and prostrating, which might lead to invalidating the prayer?
Are the prayers performed by the questioner outside the mosque or by combining prayers considered a barrier to attaining the virtue of the Hadith: "Whoever prays to Allah for forty days in congregation, catching the first Takbir, will be granted two immunities: immunity from Hellfire and immunity from hypocrisy"?
Is it permissible for a Muslim to pray behind an ignorant or polytheistic imam known for his polytheism and hypocrisy? And is prayer valid behind an imam who curses the Divine Essence during marital disputes?
Given the current security situation in Iraq, is going to the mosque considered throwing oneself into destruction? And is one rewarded for that? And is it obligatory to obey one's parents by staying home and praying there, or by going to the mosque?
Which is better: praying behind an imam who shaves his beard in a mosque with many worshippers, or praying in a mosque with a small number of worshippers who follow the Sunnah of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)?
Is the reward for praying in an open area equipped with tents, loudspeakers, and carpets for the purpose of prayer the same as the reward for praying in a mosque, or does the mosque have superiority?
Is it permissible to pray at home due to the difficulty of walking to the mosque and rising from prostration and sitting from it due to thigh and knee pain, and will it be counted as prayer in the mosque? Also, what is the solution for the difficulty of washing the feet during ablution for the same reasons?
Is it permissible to perform two rak'ahs of Qiyam Al-Layl in congregation immediately after the 'Isha Sunnah prayer in the mosque?
Is it permissible for a mother to pray in congregation with her sick son at home?
Is it better to leave the imamate to those who shorten the prayer, or to shorten it and abandon the Sunnah, especially with complaints about the prolongation of the prayer?
Is it permissible to hold a single congregational prayer in a multi-story building where worshippers fill all floors behind one imam?
Is obedience to parents to be given precedence over congregational prayer, especially if the father asks one to stay home to guard money for fear of theft, and the son refuses that in order to perform the Asr prayer in congregation? Is his action correct or an act of disobedience?
Is it permissible for a person praying at home, while the congregational prayer is being established in the mosque, to say the prescribed post-prayer supplications (adhkar) after his prayer, even though the Imam is reciting the Quran, or is it obligatory for him to listen attentively?
What is the ruling of Islamic law on a father watching his children view pornographic clips under the pretext that it is sex education, knowing that he misses congregational prayers because of watching television?
What is the Sharīʿah ruling on a man who lives in a non-Muslim country and has stopped praying in the mosque, and now prays at home due to his discomfort with praying in the mosque because of shortcomings and transgressions on the part of the Muslims in that country?
Is it permissible to forgo performing the absolute supererogatory prayers by sitting in the mosque awaiting the congregational prayer while reciting Surat Al-Ikhlas, and consider that sufficient as a substitute for the supererogatory prayers?
Is congregational prayer valid if led by a non-Arab whose pronunciation of some letters is unclear, while there are two Arab worshippers, one of whom shaves his beard and the other is a smoker?
Is it permissible to perform tasbih after the congregational prayer and the Isha supererogatory prayer, or after shaf and witr?
Is one sinful for missing the Maghrib prayer in the mosque due to being occupied with breaking a voluntary fast?
Is it permissible for someone suffering from constant seminal discharge (sals al-madhi) and flatulence to pray the obligatory prayer at home alone, and then go to the mosque to pray it with the congregation, and is there any legal basis for this?