| The Ruling Upon a Rented Building Being a Masjid and Praying Tahiyatul-Masjid In It |
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| Thursday, 19 August 2004 | ||||
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[Q]: Here in the West, we live in cities where there are no salafee masaajid. Al-hamdulilah, the salafee brothers are gathered there to use a facility as a masjid, some of them have lease terms for many years. In the masjid, the salawaat (prayers) are established five times a day, salaatul-jumu'ah and a designated Imaam (is present). Unfortunately, some of our brothers say that this facility is not considered a masjid because the building is not owned by the Muslims, and as such, they do not make tahiyatul-masjid (the two-unit prayer of greeting the masjid) and they pray the jumu'ah prayers with others who are not salafees (since they don't consider this building to be a masjid).
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Shaykh Muhammad Ibn 'Abdul-Wahhaab al-Bannaa on the Ruling Upon a Rented Building Used as a Masjid and whether or not 'tahiyatul-masjid' is to be made in it. The noble Shaykh was asked the following question during a June 2004 tele-link with brothers in Toronto, Canada:
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