Deliberately Delaying the Fajr Prayer and Making It Up
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Question:
This is Abdullah Muhammad from Jeddah asking. He says: What is the ruling for one who deliberately delays the Fajr prayer because of sleep? Is he punished? And when does he make it up?
Answer:
It is not permissible for a Muslim to be lax with the Fajr prayer and say, “I will pray it when I wake up, even if it is during the Duha time or after Duha.” It will not be accepted from him if he deliberately delays it beyond its time, for it will not be accepted from him. Allah the Exalted said:[An-Nisa 4:103] meaning it is timed at specific times that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) defined for his Ummah, so it must not be delayed beyond its times without a valid Shari'ah excuse. Yes. Ahm.
This is Abdullah Muhammad from Jeddah asking. He says: What is the ruling for one who deliberately delays the Fajr prayer because of sleep? Is he punished? And when does he make it up?
Answer:
It is not permissible for a Muslim to be lax with the Fajr prayer and say, “I will pray it when I wake up, even if it is during the Duha time or after Duha.” It will not be accepted from him if he deliberately delays it beyond its time, for it will not be accepted from him. Allah the Exalted said:
But when you become secure, re-establish [regular] prayer. Indeed, prayer has been decreed upon the believers a decree of specified times.
فَإِذَا اطْمَأْنَنتُمْ فَأَقِيمُوا الصَّلَاةَ إِنَّ الصَّلَاةَ كَانَتْ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ كِتَابًا مَّوْقُوتًا
Source
قناة «السعودية»، برنامج فتاوى ليوم الأربعاء 1439/06/05هـ — youtube.com (22:34)
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