Delaying the prayer until its time has passed in order to be occupied with a worldly matter
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. If the caller is calling for the prayer and there is a person who has occupied himself with a matter of this world, whether it is permissible or forbidden, and because of his love for this matter he did not perform the prayer until the time had passed, and then he finished this matter, is this person judged to have a love that is a love of desire, like the love of worship?
Answer:
The love of desire is permissible except if he prioritizes it over the love of Allah. So this is the one who left the congregational prayer and turned to his pleasure, or to his eating or drinking; he left the congregational prayer. This is prioritizing the love of natural desire over the love of worship, so he is threatened with the warning, but he is not a disbeliever. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. If the caller is calling for the prayer and there is a person who has occupied himself with a matter of this world, whether it is permissible or forbidden, and because of his love for this matter he did not perform the prayer until the time had passed, and then he finished this matter, is this person judged to have a love that is a love of desire, like the love of worship?
Answer:
The love of desire is permissible except if he prioritizes it over the love of Allah. So this is the one who left the congregational prayer and turned to his pleasure, or to his eating or drinking; he left the congregational prayer. This is prioritizing the love of natural desire over the love of worship, so he is threatened with the warning, but he is not a disbeliever. Yes.
Source
شرح قرة عيون الموحدين في تحقيق دعوة الأنبياء والمرسلين، باب قول الله - تعالى - : { وَمِنَ النَّاسِ مَنْ يَتَّخِذُ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ أَنْدَاداً يُحِبُّونَهُمْ كَحُبِّ اللَّهِ } — islamhouse.com (1:03:41)
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