Knowing the Last Third of the Night
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, how do we know the time in the night? We take... so that we can pray.
Answer:
This is known by calculating the hours from sunset to the appearance of the dawn. You see how many hours there are from sunset to the appearance of the dawn, and this varies according to the seasons, the long and the short. You divide the time between sunset and the appearance of the dawn into three parts; the last part is the last third of the night. And success is from Allah, and may Allah send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, how do we know the time in the night? We take... so that we can pray.
Answer:
This is known by calculating the hours from sunset to the appearance of the dawn. You see how many hours there are from sunset to the appearance of the dawn, and this varies according to the seasons, the long and the short. You divide the time between sunset and the appearance of the dawn into three parts; the last part is the last third of the night. And success is from Allah, and may Allah send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 19 من 36/شرح العقيدة الواسطية (مع الأسئلة)/ثلث الليل الآخر/صالح الفوزان/العقيدة/كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:03:45)
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