Is it disliked to pray on a prayer-mat that has a picture of a mosque on it?

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Shaykh Amjad Rasheed

Answered by Shaykh Amjad Rasheed
Translated by Ustadha Shazia Ahmad

Is it disliked to pray on a prayer-mat that has a picture of a mosque on it? It is disliked to sit on it?

Answer:

In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

I asked our shaykh, the scholar of Islamic law (faqih), Shaykh Muhammad al-Khatib about this. He said that there is no apparent dislike in it, but it is better not to.

Amjad Rasheed

(Translated by Shazia Ahmad)

Shaykh Muhammad al-Khatib of Tarim (Hadramawt, Yemen) is one of the top Shafi`i scholars alive, and a member of the Fatwa Council of Tarim.

السؤال : هل تكره الصلاة على سجادة فيها صورة مسجد ؟ وهل يكره الجلوس عليها ؟ الجواب : سألت عن ذلك شيخنا الفقيه محمداً الخطيب فأجاب : بأن الذي يظهر عدمُ كراهة ذلك ، لكن الأحسن تركه .

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