The Mufti of Saudi Arabia: Repeating the Eid sermon and prayer 3 times is permissible

Sheikh Abdulaziz Al Sheikh.

The Grand Mufti of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Chairman of the Council of Senior Scholars and General Head of Academic Research and Ifta, Sheikh Abdulaziz Al Al-Sheikh, has authorized Eid prayers and sermons three times for three groups in Muslim minority countries.

Because of the precautionary measures against the Coronavirus, and the inability to have a prayer room outside the city in which people gather to pray.

Today, Okaz newspaper reported that Al-Sheikh said in an answer to a question about the permissibility of Muslim minorities performing the Eid prayer and sermon three times due to the large number of worshipers in light of precautionary measures and the lack of mosques: “It is not permissible to repeat the Eid prayer in one prayer hall from one group after another. ;

It is neither necessary nor desperately needed, because this is an updated act. ”The Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, said:“ Whoever brings this matter to our affairs that is not of it, then it is a response. ”

Some scholars have permitted it when needed and according to it, and in our case these days with the Corona pandemic and the precautionary measures, and since the preservation and maintenance of souls is one of the major aims of Sharia law, and it has been proven that the Prophet said: “There is no harm or harm”, and the congregation in large numbers is suspected of infection and the spread of disease And because of the inability to have a prayer room outside the city in which people gather to pray, we think that it is permissible, especially in Muslim minority countries, especially in Muslim minority countries, so we think that it is permissible, in such circumstances.

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