Straightening the rows by drawing
lines on the masjid floor
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Question: What is the ruling
regarding drawing lines on the masjid
(floor) to (assist in) straightening the rows?
Response: If the people are
unable to straighten the rows except with (the aid of these
lines), then there is no harm (in drawing lines on the masjid
floor).
Question:
Some masaajid
are built deviating away from the qiblah
(direction of the Ka'bah
in Makkah),
and the rows are unable to be straightened except by drawing
these lines.
Response:
There is no harm in that (i.e. drawing lines on the masjid
floor), inshaa.-Allaah.
Shaykh
'Abdur-Razzaaq 'Afeefee
Fataawa wa Rasaa.il Shaykh 'Abdur-Razzaaq 'Afeefee - Volume
1, Page 189, Fatwa No.20
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