➤The Fadeelatus-Shaykh Abu Abdirrahman Yahya bin Ali Al-Hajoori, Hafidhahullah, on ⤵️
How is a Masjid ruled to be a Masjid of the layfolk?
Question:
“How is a Masjid ruled to be a Masjid of the layfolk? And what's the ruling of doing Khutbah in it?”.
Answer:
“I say, the Masjids of the layfolk are known amongst the people, and the Masjids of the students of knowledge and the Maraakiz and the Sunnah are known amongst the people, this is one thing.
The second thing, I advise my brothers may Allah preserve them, that their lessons and their lectures, and their benefiting (others) is to be in the Masjids of the Sunnah, those which are distinct, which are well known and clear, and whoever wants good will come to it.
One goes to knowledge like Ibn Abbas said, and also this contains making it more known, and it also contains calling the people to it, and it contains its distinction, it will be distinct for its good, as those who sits with someone are affected by them, and mixing affects one:
A person is upon the religion of their close companion so look at he who you take as a close companion.
By Allah if you mix with a Nasraani you are not safe from becoming a Nasraani, or a Raafidi you are not safe from becoming a Raafidi, or a Huluuli you are not safe from their doubts, let alone you mixing with someone with a beard and mixing with someone who portrays the Sunnah and or mixing with people who have doubts and have been cultivated with people who don't have distinction in their Da'wah with correct distinction, they have with them picture taking and they have with them... and they have with them... they wish to drag you in! This Da'wah is being targeted, and their callers are being targeted to change them, and out of envy for this good. And if they take you then benefit from you - then they cast you in the vast sea with those that they used before you, in the manner of the one who was a roadside thief, but the story isn't authentic, the story of Abu Ma'luq. That there was a man who would deceive the people who would lead people astray, he would be standing on a road at a crossing and he would take them to a place where there are rotting body parts, and he would say all of them: “All of them, I have lead them astray, and I made them lost, until I took them to this place and I killed them!”.
One path, and known paths to the side, in the book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger.
And then perhaps they then take their wealth and cast them aside, if they were saved from them they are casted away without nothing, O brother they are envy of you, they don't want you to remain upon this good - by Allah! They want to suck the blessings you have and the good and the distinction and the Sunnah, then enter with the rest, with the sea of others, others besides you are many in a que, this is may Allah bless you!
This is it, this is it, anyhow, the Masjids of Ahlussunnah are well known, whoever wants good they will come to it.
There are Masjids of the layfolk, whoever passes on their way can give a reminder, Masjids which you pass on your way and pray and give them a reminder, this was the case in the era of the Prophet ﷺ and his companions. But it wasn't with the Salaf, they didn't go to the places of the innovators, go to it and establish therein.
➢Another affair, if an affair occurs between you and your brother, a differing, this is a Masjid of the layfolk or it isn't, the affair of brotherhood is important and it's obligatory! Religious brotherhood is obligatory! And the evidences for it being obligatory are many, from the Qur'an and the Sunnah, and it's not permissible to be negligent regarding it, not for a Masjid or for ten!
So if you differ with your brother over this, then preserve your brotherhood and take the Masjid that you agree upon that it is sound for lecturing therein, and benefiting therein, and whatever you differed upon then leave it, say whoever wants good then come to us welcome, as for us we won't come because this is causing disruption and splitting between us and our brotherhood is more important
