Assalamualikum, We live in Los Angeles,USA. We have been praying our Jummah and other Satat in a rented place for a long time. It is not a parmanent masjid.From the last Ramadan we started second Jumma Jamat in the same place. Can we offer second Jumma Jamat or second Jamat for any other prayer in the same place? Please let us know. May Allah bless us all.
Answer
(Fatwa: 882/882=M/1430)
If it is not permanently a legal mosque, rather a temporary worship place, so holding the second jama?ah of Jumu’ah or any salah is not makrooh. It is lawful, but holding one jama?ah is better; since it demonstrates the unity of Muslims and their grandeur. And, this is the motto of the jama?ah.
Allah (Subhana Wa Ta’ala) knows Best
Darul Ifta,
Darul Uloom Deoband