Combining the Maghrib and 'Isha' prayers due to exams
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The questioner:
He says: We are third-year high school students, and we have a standardized test. This test begins immediately after the Maghrib prayer and sometimes continues until 11:30, and it may be longer or shorter. Is it permissible for us to combine the Maghrib and 'Isha' prayers, given that we are not allowed to pray during the test?
The Shaykh:
You are in a Muslim country. Islam is the authority over everyone: the teachers, the administrators, the ministry, and you. It is not permissible to manipulate the time of prayer. When the time for prayer enters, you pray, then you return to your work, and you also pray in congregation. Religion takes precedence over these matters. If it conflicts with the time of prayer, it is moved to a time when prayer does not enter, so that it is placed between two distant prayers, not between two close prayers, so that what happens does not happen. Yes.
The questioner:
The Shaykh continues until one of the months.
The Shaykh:
It continues, if Allah wills, until Fajr; they do not neglect the prayer, they pray. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
He says: We are third-year high school students, and we have a standardized test. This test begins immediately after the Maghrib prayer and sometimes continues until 11:30, and it may be longer or shorter. Is it permissible for us to combine the Maghrib and 'Isha' prayers, given that we are not allowed to pray during the test?
The Shaykh:
You are in a Muslim country. Islam is the authority over everyone: the teachers, the administrators, the ministry, and you. It is not permissible to manipulate the time of prayer. When the time for prayer enters, you pray, then you return to your work, and you also pray in congregation. Religion takes precedence over these matters. If it conflicts with the time of prayer, it is moved to a time when prayer does not enter, so that it is placed between two distant prayers, not between two close prayers, so that what happens does not happen. Yes.
The questioner:
The Shaykh continues until one of the months.
The Shaykh:
It continues, if Allah wills, until Fajr; they do not neglect the prayer, they pray. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-027-الرقية الشرعية أحكام وضوابط|صالح الفوزان|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (48:23)
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