#465: Ruling on entering the Masjid with Shoes

QUESTION

RULING ON WHETHER ENTERING THE MASJID WITH SHOES OR REMOVING THEM IS BID’AH

“As salamu Alaykum…Can I get a detailed explanation on the issue off entering masjid with shoe or to off it before entering… people term it as bid’ah to leave the shoe outside the masjid.”

ANSWER

Wa alaykum Salām Warahmatullāh Wabarakātuh.

It is an established Sunnah of the Rasūl – salallāhu alayhi wasallam – to observe the Salāt in the Masjid with the shoes. But is is also established from him that he observed Salāt without the Shoes.

For that reason, to claim that pulling off the shows before entering the Masjid is a bid’a is far fetched.

Had the claimer said that it is a bid’a to forbid people from entering the Masjid with shoes, he would have been inches closer to the truth.

And it is known that these days, there are rugs and carpets in the Masjid that prevent people from entering into the a masjid with their shoes.

Therefore, to claim that removing the shoes before entering the Masjid is a bid’a does not at all look like the Fatwa of an ‘Ālim.

And it goes against the Fatwa of the Ulamā of the era such as Shaykh Bin Bāz, Shaykh Uthaymin, Shaykh Fawzān, and many others.

Aside that, in societies where people are very particular about not entering the Masjid with the shoes, going against them could lead to fitnah and discord in the Muslim community.

It was narrated in the Maliki textbook: Mawābu Al-Jalīl the story of a mosque where such an incident led to fight and the killng of a soul.
Allāhu A’alam.

Bārakallāhu fīkum
Jazākumullāhu Khayran.

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