Objections and Their Replies

From what has already been set out you will have realized that performing the two ʿEid prayers in the musalla (open-air prayer ground) is the Sunnah, that the scholars are unanimously agreed on this from an academic standpoint, and that offering it in the musalla yields benefits and wisdoms, most of which are not attained when it is held inside the various mosques or the main mosque. Consequently, Muslims ought to return to the practice of their Prophet ﷺ and join those who have hastened to revive this Sunnah in these lands; for the hand of Allah is over the congregation—the congregation that adheres to the Sunnah, not the one that opposes it.

It is therefore unfitting for any rational person to claim that reviving this Sunnah would split the Muslim community, or to argue that since people are already praying in several congregations within the mosques, holding the prayer in the musalla would mean abandoning them and creating yet another congregation which we could do without, when what we actually need is to lessen the number of separate congregations, not multiply them. To that we reply: