A person performs wudu and goes to the mosque, so how can he be absent from the remembrance of the obligatory prayer?

The questioner : A person performs wudu and goes to the mosque, then he sleeps until the prayer. So how do we say that he may be absent from it?

The Shaykh : If it does not go away from you, then it goes away from me.

The questioner : How am I after that?

The Shaykh : I mean, it is not on the person's mind; he lets his thoughts wander, thinking about something, and he is conversing with the people.

The questioner : I mean, the intention is invalidated.

The Shaykh : It does not go away from me, but I do not finish the 'Isha' prayer, of course, because if I wanted to intend a specific prayer, I would not have intended 'Isha'. But it goes away from me, sometimes, especially when I am correcting you, for example, I say, "Straighten up, those in front of you, those behind you, those in the back," and I forget what I am praying, for example. And this is clear.