Is it permissible to perform the two rak'ahs of the sunnah before the obligatory prayer?

Question:
May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good. He has a question in which he asks: Is it permissible to perform the two rak'ahs of the sunnah before the obligatory prayer?

Answer:
There is no doubt that the rawatib (regular voluntary prayers) that come before the obligatory prayer are performed before it. So for the Zuhr prayer, its rawatib are before it and also after it; Zuhr has a rawatib before it and a rawatib after it. As for Fajr, its rawatib is before it. As for Maghrib and 'Isha', their rawatib are after them, and they have no rawatib before them. But perhaps the questioner means: if the iqamah (second call to prayer) has been made.
So does he pray the rawatib before Zuhr or before Fajr? Does he pray it and then catch up with the imam?
The answer is no. If the iqamah has been made, there is no prayer except the obligatory one. He enters the prayer with the imam. When he has finished his prayer, he makes up the pre-Fajr rawatib after Fajr, and likewise he makes up the pre-Zuhr rawatib after Zuhr, in order to preserve it.