Role Of The Mosque by No author available

1. It is forbidden to build the mosques over graveyards and dirty land. Bukhari, Muslim, al- Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah reported on the authority of Abu Sa‘id that the Messenger of Allah (saw)

said, “The whole earth is a mosque except the graveyard and the toilet.”.

2. Islam has made it mandub for the woman to pray in her house and made it favourable to her to prayer in the mosque and in a congregation. The Messenger of Allah (saw) said, “It is better for a woman to pray in her home than in the mosque.”.

3. Islam has prohibited from preventing the women from going out to the mosque. It has been reported on the authority of ‘Umar that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said, “Do not prevent the woman from going out to the mosques but their homes are better for them.” Ahmad and Abu Dawud reported, on the authority of Abu Hurayrah, that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said, “Do not prevent the maid servants of Allah from going to the mosques of Allah, and let them go out unadorned ( not wearing any make up or perfume).”.

4. Islam has made permitted the duration of the prayer to be short when praying in congregation provided that the prayer is completed. The six Imams have reported on the authority of Abu - Hurayrah that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said, “If any of you led the people in prayer let it be brief for there are amongst them the weak and the aged and when he prays by himself let him prolong his prayer as much as he wants.”.

5. Islam has made it mandub for a man who has just prayed his jam‘a in the mosque to join another brother who has missed the jam‘a prayer to pray with him the second time as nafila and a charitable act from his part in order to allow his brother to gain the award of the jam‘a prayer. Abu Sa‘id reported that a man entered the mosque and the Messenger of Allah (saw) has just prayed with his companions and he (saw) said, “Who would volunteer to pray with this man? A man from the group stood up and prayed with him.” This hadith has been reported from Ahmad, Abu Dawud and al-Tarmidhi.

6. Islam has made it mandub for he who has prayed his prescribed prayer and then came to the mosque while the jam‘a was being observed to pray with the jam‘a as a nafila, for the al-Nisa‘i and al-Tirmidhi reported on the authority of Yazid al-Aswed that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said to two men, “If you had prayed in your home and then came to the mosque, and a jam‘a was being observed and you joined them in the prayer, it would be for you a nafila.”.