Delaying Prayer Due to Military Shift Work
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The questioner:
I would like to ask, Shaykh. I am a military officer, and my work schedule is in shifts. Sometimes my shifts overlap with the times of the Maghrib and 'Isha' prayers, and I am forced not to pray Maghrib and 'Isha' because I am unable to leave the site. What is the ruling, Shaykh, if I delay the prayer until after the 'Isha' prayer?
The Shaykh:
My brother, pray in your place. Pray in your place, and do not go and leave your duty. Do not leave it. Pray in your place, and praise be to Allah.
The questioner:
But, Shaykh, I cannot go out; I cannot leave the place.
The Shaykh:
If you did not attend to the obligation of being prepared with wudu' (ablution), so that when the prayer time comes you can pray it, but if it happens that your wudu' is broken, or that you did not perform wudu' and you cannot leave the place, then you delay the prayer until the end of its time. If your work ends at the end of its time, you delay it and pray it at the end of the time, with wudu'. And if the time is about to end, you intend to combine it with the prayer that follows it, as a combination of delay. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
I would like to ask, Shaykh. I am a military officer, and my work schedule is in shifts. Sometimes my shifts overlap with the times of the Maghrib and 'Isha' prayers, and I am forced not to pray Maghrib and 'Isha' because I am unable to leave the site. What is the ruling, Shaykh, if I delay the prayer until after the 'Isha' prayer?
The Shaykh:
My brother, pray in your place. Pray in your place, and do not go and leave your duty. Do not leave it. Pray in your place, and praise be to Allah.
The questioner:
But, Shaykh, I cannot go out; I cannot leave the place.
The Shaykh:
If you did not attend to the obligation of being prepared with wudu' (ablution), so that when the prayer time comes you can pray it, but if it happens that your wudu' is broken, or that you did not perform wudu' and you cannot leave the place, then you delay the prayer until the end of its time. If your work ends at the end of its time, you delay it and pray it at the end of the time, with wudu'. And if the time is about to end, you intend to combine it with the prayer that follows it, as a combination of delay. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Source
فتاوى على الهواء 06-08-1435هـ — alfawzan.live (54:10)
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