The reason the author placed the condition of ritual purity before the times in his arrangement
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The author (may Allah have mercy on him) mentioned in the chapter on the conditions of prayer that its conditions precede it, including the time. Then he mentioned purification from ritual impurity and physical impurity. Then the author began to mention the times of prayer. The question is: why did the author separate the condition of time and the times of prayer by mentioning the condition of purification?
Answer:
Because purification is more truthful, as Allah the Exalted said:[Al-Ma'idah 5:6] Purification is more truthful.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The author (may Allah have mercy on him) mentioned in the chapter on the conditions of prayer that its conditions precede it, including the time. Then he mentioned purification from ritual impurity and physical impurity. Then the author began to mention the times of prayer. The question is: why did the author separate the condition of time and the times of prayer by mentioning the condition of purification?
Answer:
Because purification is more truthful, as Allah the Exalted said:
when you rise to [perform] prayer, wash your faces
إِذَا قُمْتُمْ إِلَى الصَّلَاةِ فَاغْسِلُوا وُجُوهَكُمْ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 141/23 شرح زاد المستقنع/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (1:05:45)
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