Question
Aslam o alaikum, I'm a student and I pray duhur in my university timings. The congregation starts at 1:30. My new semester teacher wants to change the timing of the class and that will clash with my congregation timing. I asked him not to do so, but he insists. Is it allowed for me to leave the congregation and then pray on my own after the class or not? Can you please provide some shariah evidence that I may convince him?
Answer
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
As-salāmu 'alaykumwa-rahmatullāhiw barakātuh. If your teacher does not facilitate for you to perform salaah in congregation, you will be excused to perform salaah by yourself after the classes." (End of fatwa)
I always understood that if one wishes to meet Allah as a Muslim on the Day of Judgement as a Muslim he should perform Salah in the Masjid and according to certain Sahabah (Radiallahu Anhum)
Salah without Jamaat is no Salah at all. In addition, Salah with Jamaat can only be missed if there is a valid excuse such as fear or illness.
How then can the Mufti lower the standard and assert publicly that it is permissible to perform Salah individually to acquire dunya knowledge in the den of zina, i.e. a university. Please clarify if this is a baatil view or not.
Muslims have made the Deen subservient to the dunya, and even subservient to haraam worldly pursuits. The Deen has become a hobby and a secondary activity which Muslims have made the handmaid of secular and material objectives. That is precisely why Allah Ta'ala has imposed kuffaar domination on the Ummah.
In the eyes of even the Ulama who are supposed to be the Heirs and Representatives of Rasulullah ( s a l l a l l a h u a l a y h i wasallam), Salaat is of secondary or even lesser importance. This is tantamount to Istikhfaaf with the Deen, and this is an act of kufr. The Muftis of today lack the ability to apply their minds constructively to uphold the Deen. They generally seek baseless loopholes and produce untenable arguments to ensure that the Deen remains subservient to worldly objectives.
Can you imagine the Sahabah abandoning Jamaat Salaat for secular studies imparted in a haraam university in a haraam immoral environment which is rife with zina?
The one who professes to be a Muslim yet accepts to forgo Jamaat Salaat on the instruction of a faasiq/ faajir secular teacher should examine his Imaan. The Mufti who has issued the haraam fatwa is a moron to say the least. He treats the Deen lightly, yet he is supposed to be aware that Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said:
"This dunya has been created for you, and you have been created for the Aakhirat."
In this temporary worldly abode of trial and misery, there will always be conflicts between the Deen and the Dunya. This world is the arena for the conflict between Haqq and baatil. The Mu'min is supposed to shun and abandon baatil without batting an eyelid. He does not require a fatwa, especially the type of fatwas issued by today's maajin (moron) muftis to understand Haqq and b a a t i l. R a s u l u l l a h ( S a l l a l l a h u a l a y h i wasallam) said: "Seek a fatwa from your heart." Now the heart of a sincere Muslim rebels against a rendition of the Deen to make it subservient to the dunya. How can a genuine Mufti ever advise Muslim students at a haraam institution to forgo Jamaat Salaat. The correct answer / fatwa is: Confound the teacher! Confound the educational brothel! Disobey the shaitaani teacher and perform Salaat with Jamaat, and abandon the university.
- Source
- themajlis.co.za
- Published in
- The Majlis Vol 24 No 03
- PDF page
- 10
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