The Ruling on Completing a Voluntary Prayer When the Call for the Obligatory Prayer Is Made
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Question:
Your Eminence, Shaykh Salih (may Allah preserve you), may Allah bless you. This questioner says: I am Egyptian and work in a company where most of the employees are from non-Arab communities. We pray together, but most of them pray the Sunnah of Dhuhr or 'Asr as four rak'ahs. Even if the prayer is called for, they do not conclude it, even if they miss a rak'ah of the obligatory prayer. I tried to convince them, but to no avail.
Answer:
This is not permissible. If the prayer is called for, there is no prayer except the obligatory one. If the prayer is called for while he is in a voluntary prayer, he should complete it briefly and pray with the congregation, and he should not continue in it until he misses the congregational prayer. If he fears missing the prayer, he should cut off the voluntary prayer and join the congregational prayer. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Your Eminence, Shaykh Salih (may Allah preserve you), may Allah bless you. This questioner says: I am Egyptian and work in a company where most of the employees are from non-Arab communities. We pray together, but most of them pray the Sunnah of Dhuhr or 'Asr as four rak'ahs. Even if the prayer is called for, they do not conclude it, even if they miss a rak'ah of the obligatory prayer. I tried to convince them, but to no avail.
Answer:
This is not permissible. If the prayer is called for, there is no prayer except the obligatory one. If the prayer is called for while he is in a voluntary prayer, he should complete it briefly and pray with the congregation, and he should not continue in it until he misses the congregational prayer. If he fears missing the prayer, he should cut off the voluntary prayer and join the congregational prayer. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Source
قناة «إذاعة القرآن الكريم»، نور على الدرب مع معالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان ح7481 — youtube.com (4:55)
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