Question
I attended the Johannesburg Markaz for the Ijtima with the sincere intention of learning Deen and benefitting from the blessed environment. However, I faced an issue which has left me concerned. I was informed that entry into the Musjid itself is restricted, and that one must have a special card to enter. On one occasion, I was told that I am not welcome in the Musjid and should instead go to the Ijtima tent. My concern is whether it is permissible in Islam to prevent a Muslim from entering the House of Allah, especially when the person wishes to enter with the intention of ibaadah and seeking knowledge. To me, this felt like a form of discrimination and a separation of class, which seems contrary to the universal and open nature of the Musjid. I told one of the elders he said it’s because if they let people in the mosque it will become overcrowded and congested. When I said that it’s still not right to pick and choose who comes in, he got upset and said that I have attitude problem. I humbly seek your guidance on whether such restrictions are in accordance with Shari‘ah, and how one should understand or respond to this matter.” (End of question)
Answer
Debarring a Musalli from the Musjid is haraam. But Tablighis are not concerned with Halaal and Haraam. The Shariah is not their criterion. They are intoxicated with their methodology of so-called ‘tabligh’. They are propagating nafsaaniyat under guise of the Deen. In so doing the Tabligh Jamaat has become one of the signs of Qiyaamah. Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) elaborating on these Signs, said:
“The dunya will be pursued with the amal of the Deen,”
Tabligh is an amal of the Deen, but the motive of the tabighis is the dunya/nafs. That is why they have the shaitaani temerity to so blatantly and arrogantly perpetrate the capital haraam act of debarring a Muslim from the Musjid for absolutely no valid Shar’i reason.
It is unheard of in the annals of Islam that a ‘visa’ has become necessary for gaining entry to the House of Allah Ta’ala. In debarring Muslims from the Musjid, these ‘tablighi’ louts come fully within the glare and purview of the Qur’aanic Stricture:
“Who is a greater zaalim (oppressor) that the one who prevents the Thikr of Allah from the Musaajid and (in the process) strives to ruin the Musaajid… For them there is disgrace in this world and for them in the
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