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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Is it permissible for one who is on an airplane to delay the prayer until he lands, even if the time for the prayer has passed?

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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is it permissible for one who is on an airplane to delay the prayer until he lands, even if he fears that the time will pass?

Answer:
No, if it is combined with the prayer that follows it, such as Zuhr with 'Asr, or Maghrib with 'Isha', it is combined with the one that follows, and the plane will land before the time for the second prayer ends, then you intend to combine when you land, a combination of delay. But if it is not combined, like the Fajr prayer or the 'Asr prayer whose time ends with the setting of the sun, or 'Isha whose time ends with the appearance of dawn, then you pray on the plane, according to your situation.
And what we know and have done on the plane is that they allow you to pray facing the qiblah in a place on the plane near the exits, until they said that they provided a special place for prayer. Yes.
And likewise the train; they told us that they made a room or rooms in the train cars for prayer, and this is obligatory upon them, that these are Muslims, and they must give the prayer its due consideration. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [253 -2802] هَلْ لمن ركب الطائرة أن يؤخر الصَّلَاة حتى نزوله، ولو خرج وقت الصلاة؟ — youtube.com

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