The Beginning and End of I'tikaf

The questioner:
They pray the migration, they pray the migration, and if a student prays on the night of the twenty-first.

The Shaykh:
And you know, if he prays Fajr, he enters and mounts.

The questioner:
You are not heavy in the house ahead.

The Shaykh:
On the night you pray in the mosque or in the house. And 'Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) did not begin except after the Fajr prayer, he would perform i'tikaf.

The questioner:
After that, the night enters the period of i'tikaf.

The Shaykh:
If he enters it, it counts; if he does not enter it, there is no harm. If he enters it after the Maghrib prayer, there is no harm. If he sits in his home and enters after the next day's prayer, there is no harm. Yes.

The questioner:
Yes, yes. He remains.

The Shaykh:
So he prays while he is in his home, yes.

The questioner:
When does he leave for the i'tikaf? The end of the i'tikaf.

The Shaykh:
Whenever he wishes. That is, the night of the festival or the day of the festival? The night of the festival. If he prays 'Asr, that is the night of the festival. And if he remains in i'tikaf until he prays the festival prayer, all of it, all of it is fine.