The ruling on eating during the prayer whose obligation is disputed

The questioner : Yes. Shaykh, regarding the author’s statement, “whether voluntary or obligatory,” this refers to the prayer whose status as voluntary or obligatory is established,

The Shaykh : which is established here.

The questioner : For example, the five daily prayers and the regular voluntary prayers; there is no prayer where one says this is voluntary and that is obligatory. But there is a prayer whose obligation and non-obligation are disputed, so the act of eating, for example, in

The Shaykh : if one holds that it is obligatory, it has the ruling of an obligatory prayer, and if one holds that it is voluntary, it has the ruling of a voluntary prayer. Yes.