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Straightening the rows by drawing lines on the masjid floor

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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Published: 23 November 2003