The Ruling on Delaying the Fajr Prayer Beyond Its Time
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Question:
May Allah reward you. May Allah reward you. He says: What is your advice regarding those who are lax in performing the Fajr prayer in congregation at the mosque, and some of them deliberately delay the Fajr prayer until the time they get up for work?
Answer:
This is a case of combining two crimes: the one who delays the prayer until he stands for his regular work after the sun has risen has committed two crimes, and his prayer is invalid. The first crime is that he abandoned the congregational prayer, which is an obligatory duty upon him. The second, which is greater, is that he took the prayer out of its time. Whoever deliberately takes the prayer out of its time, his prayer is not valid and is not accepted from him, because he did not pray the prayer that Allah commanded him to pray. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says:[An-Nisa 4:103] And Allah has appointed times for the prayers, so they must be performed within those times. If he takes them out of their times without an excuse, he has not prayed the prayer that Allah commanded him to pray, and consequently, it is not valid.
May Allah reward you. May Allah reward you. He says: What is your advice regarding those who are lax in performing the Fajr prayer in congregation at the mosque, and some of them deliberately delay the Fajr prayer until the time they get up for work?
Answer:
This is a case of combining two crimes: the one who delays the prayer until he stands for his regular work after the sun has risen has committed two crimes, and his prayer is invalid. The first crime is that he abandoned the congregational prayer, which is an obligatory duty upon him. The second, which is greater, is that he took the prayer out of its time. Whoever deliberately takes the prayer out of its time, his prayer is not valid and is not accepted from him, because he did not pray the prayer that Allah commanded him to pray. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says:
re-establish [regular] prayer. Indeed, prayer has been decreed upon the believers a decree of specified times.
فَأَقِيمُوا الصَّلَاةَ إِنَّ الصَّلَاةَ كَانَتْ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ كِتَابًا مَّوْقُوتًا
Source
تأخير الصلاة — alfawzan.live
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