Delaying the Zuhr prayer due to meetings
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: Sometimes we are in a meeting with some officials, and we may delay the Zuhr prayer for an hour. Is what we are doing correct? The ministry where I work is the best in handling such matters in external and internal meetings. Is this delay permissible for me?
Answer:
You must arrange the meetings to accommodate the prayer. Hold them either before or after it. But if something unexpected happens, meaning an unforeseen event occurs and takes up their time, there is no harm in the unexpected matter that is not a habit. As for something planned to always occur at the time of prayer, that is not permissible. The government does not approve of this either. The government does not approve of this. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: Sometimes we are in a meeting with some officials, and we may delay the Zuhr prayer for an hour. Is what we are doing correct? The ministry where I work is the best in handling such matters in external and internal meetings. Is this delay permissible for me?
Answer:
You must arrange the meetings to accommodate the prayer. Hold them either before or after it. But if something unexpected happens, meaning an unforeseen event occurs and takes up their time, there is no harm in the unexpected matter that is not a habit. As for something planned to always occur at the time of prayer, that is not permissible. The government does not approve of this either. The government does not approve of this. Yes.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 29-04-1435هـ — alfawzan.live (1:04:20)
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