Is it better to perform the prayer for rain if it conflicts with the work schedule?
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Question:
The questioner says: If the time for the prayer for rain conflicts with the official work schedule, which one takes precedence, given that the person is forced to be late for work?
Answer:
The prayer for rain is a recommended practice (sunnah). If it is facilitated, it is a confirmed recommended practice, and if it is not facilitated, he is excused. However, he should supplicate; he should increase his supplication while he is at work. Yes. Also, the authorities should provide an opportunity for employees to pray the prayer for rain. Yes. May Allah reward you.
The questioner says: The common practice is that they make Thursday a holiday, but most people sleep and do not go for the prayer for rain out of laziness. If they are lazy about the Fajr prayer, how will they be about the prayer for rain? This is a form of turning away, this is a form of turning away and heedlessness, and there is no power and no strength except by Allah. It is from the hardness of hearts, from the hardness of hearts. Some of them say there is no need for the prayer for rain.
I am wealthy and I have money, and rain falls on the house, and everything is available. He does not think that Allah will change his condition or that Allah will deprive him of this blessing. He does not think about this.
Then also, he does not think about the condition of his brothers and their needs. The Muslims are like one body; if one part of it complains, the rest of the body responds to it with sleeplessness and fever. He does not feel the needs of the Muslims, nor does he have compassion for their condition, nor does he supplicate for them, nor does he feel their pain. This is not how a Muslim is.
First, the Muslim should not be deluded by what he has, for Allah is able to deprive him of it in an instant. Second, the Muslim feels the pain of his brothers, so he prays for rain and supplicates for them, because he is a part of them, and what pains them pains him. The Muslim’s feeling should be like this. Yes.
The questioner says: If the time for the prayer for rain conflicts with the official work schedule, which one takes precedence, given that the person is forced to be late for work?
Answer:
The prayer for rain is a recommended practice (sunnah). If it is facilitated, it is a confirmed recommended practice, and if it is not facilitated, he is excused. However, he should supplicate; he should increase his supplication while he is at work. Yes. Also, the authorities should provide an opportunity for employees to pray the prayer for rain. Yes. May Allah reward you.
The questioner says: The common practice is that they make Thursday a holiday, but most people sleep and do not go for the prayer for rain out of laziness. If they are lazy about the Fajr prayer, how will they be about the prayer for rain? This is a form of turning away, this is a form of turning away and heedlessness, and there is no power and no strength except by Allah. It is from the hardness of hearts, from the hardness of hearts. Some of them say there is no need for the prayer for rain.
I am wealthy and I have money, and rain falls on the house, and everything is available. He does not think that Allah will change his condition or that Allah will deprive him of this blessing. He does not think about this.
Then also, he does not think about the condition of his brothers and their needs. The Muslims are like one body; if one part of it complains, the rest of the body responds to it with sleeplessness and fever. He does not feel the needs of the Muslims, nor does he have compassion for their condition, nor does he supplicate for them, nor does he feel their pain. This is not how a Muslim is.
First, the Muslim should not be deluded by what he has, for Allah is able to deprive him of it in an instant. Second, the Muslim feels the pain of his brothers, so he prays for rain and supplicates for them, because he is a part of them, and what pains them pains him. The Muslim’s feeling should be like this. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل الأفضل أداء الاستسقاء إذا تعارض مع موعد الدوام؟ للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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