Explaining that acts of worship and transactions are timed by the lunar months
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The questioner:
Your Excellency the Shaykh, at the beginning of the verse it is mentioned that the lunar months are fixed times for people and for Hajj. Regarding the acts of worship, as you explained, such as Hajj, fasting, and others?
The Shaykh:
Acts of worship and transactions.
The presenter:
And transactions are likewise. Perhaps we should pause on this meaning in our Shari'ah: that many of the Muslims' acts of worship are timed by specific times, with limits that do not exist outside of them.
The Shaykh:
Yes, as we mentioned, Hajj has known months of the year, and they are not known except by the lunar months. The months are not known except by the lunar months. Likewise, the prayers are not known except by their times: when the sun passes its zenith for the midday prayer, when the shadow equals the object for the afternoon prayer, when the sun sets for the sunset prayer, when the red twilight disappears for the night prayer, and when the dawn breaks for the dawn prayer. So they are timed by times that they know from the movement of the sun and the moon, from the movement of the sun and the moon. They know their acts of worship by this. Likewise, the menstruating woman observes her waiting period by menstruation, three periods, meaning three menstruations or three purifications. And if she is not one of those who menstruate, it is three months?
And He, Glorified and Exalted is He, said:[At-Talaq 65:4] and those who have passed the age of menstruation from among your women, and those who have not yet menstruated. [Al-Baqarah 2:234] And likewise, the widow observes a waiting period of four months and ten days. How do you know the months except by the new moons? Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Your Excellency the Shaykh, at the beginning of the verse it is mentioned that the lunar months are fixed times for people and for Hajj. Regarding the acts of worship, as you explained, such as Hajj, fasting, and others?
The Shaykh:
Acts of worship and transactions.
The presenter:
And transactions are likewise. Perhaps we should pause on this meaning in our Shari'ah: that many of the Muslims' acts of worship are timed by specific times, with limits that do not exist outside of them.
The Shaykh:
Yes, as we mentioned, Hajj has known months of the year, and they are not known except by the lunar months. The months are not known except by the lunar months. Likewise, the prayers are not known except by their times: when the sun passes its zenith for the midday prayer, when the shadow equals the object for the afternoon prayer, when the sun sets for the sunset prayer, when the red twilight disappears for the night prayer, and when the dawn breaks for the dawn prayer. So they are timed by times that they know from the movement of the sun and the moon, from the movement of the sun and the moon. They know their acts of worship by this. Likewise, the menstruating woman observes her waiting period by menstruation, three periods, meaning three menstruations or three purifications. And if she is not one of those who menstruate, it is three months?
And He, Glorified and Exalted is He, said:
And those who no longer expect menstruation among your women - if you doubt, then their period is three months
وَاللَّائِي يَئِسْنَ مِنَ الْمَحِيضِ مِن نِّسَائِكُمْ إِنِ ارْتَبْتُمْ فَعِدَّتُهُنَّ ثَلَاثَةُ أَشْهُرٍAnd those who are taken in death among you and leave wives behind - they, [the wives, shall] wait four months and ten [days]
وَالَّذِينَ يُتَوَفَّوْنَ مِنكُمْ وَيَذَرُونَ أَزْوَاجًا يَتَرَبَّصْنَ بِأَنفُسِهِنَّ أَرْبَعَةَ أَشْهُرٍ وَعَشْرًاThe presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 04 من 12/الحج في القرآن/الأهلة/صالح الفوزان/الفقه/كبار العلماء — youtube.com (6:03)
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