Question
I was praying with a few brothers in a musalla with a young mufti as the imam. He would cover his mouth and expose his nose as he led the prayers. We did pray shoulder to shoulder but I would have my mask or bandana lowered on my beard just around my neck to make it look like I am wearing a mask. I was doing this just in case if the authorities would come in. But Alhamdulillah here in the South (of America) where we live the authorities are very conservative and they do not bother religious establishments. The churches down here fill their churches. They do not do social distancing and the majority do not wear masks. The authorities don't do anything to them. Two synagogues and the New York Arch Diocese took the governor of New York to court because of the limit on people going into their places of worship, and they won the cases. Unfortunately no Muslim organization or group want to do the same thing. They are more afraid than anyone else of practicing their faith even though this country is for people to have freedom of religion and to fight for that freedom. Is Salaat valid praying behind an imam who wears the covid mask?
Answer
Salaat is not valid behind a man who subscribes to the kufr theory of the atheists. Those who don the niqaab of Iblees on the basis of the kufr understanding that disease by itself is contagious, lose their Imaan. They are mushriks following the atheist kuffaar of the west and the mushrikeen of the pre-Islam era. Those who suffer the calamity of performing Salaat behind such zanadiqah should repeat their Salaat.
Muslims –the vast majority – today are not Mu'mineen. Despite professing to be Muslims, they are kuffaar at heart. They are kuffaar of a medley of kinds – munaafiqeen, zanadaqah and murtaddeen. That is why they fear their own shadows more than anything else. They are the worst bootlickers of the kuffaar. They have sunk to gutter levels far below the Yahood and Nasaara. Even the so-called ulama have become bootlickers and hindlickers of the western atheists. That is why our Nabi (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said that they are "the worst of mankind under the canopy of the sky". They are worse than the Yahood, Nasaara, Mushrikeen and worse than even khanaazeer.
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- themajlis.co.za
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- The Majlis Vol 25 No 10
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