The Ruling on Maintaining the Regular Voluntary Prayers
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
The Shaykh:
May Allah greet you and bless you.
The questioner:
Before we begin with the main text and reading the remainder of the previous lesson, what is the reward, O Shaykh, for maintaining the regular voluntary prayers? Because some people are content with only the obligatory prayers and do not perform these voluntary prayers for their entire lives.
The Shaykh:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. May Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. One should maintain the regular voluntary prayers along with the obligatory prayers, because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) encouraged them, and because he (peace and blessings be upon him) used to maintain them. And he (peace and blessings be upon him) informed that these regular voluntary prayers will complete the obligatory prayers on the Day of Resurrection. If there is a deficiency in the obligatory prayers, it will be completed from these regular voluntary prayers, so one should maintain them. Except if one is traveling and shortens the prayer, in which case he does not perform these regular voluntary prayers. Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) said, "If I were in a state of voluntary prayer, meaning performing voluntary prayers, I would complete the prayer, except for the regular voluntary prayer of Fajr, for the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not leave it, neither when present nor when traveling." Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you, Shaykh,
May Allah greet you and bless you.
The questioner:
Before we begin with the main text and reading the remainder of the previous lesson, what is the reward, O Shaykh, for maintaining the regular voluntary prayers? Because some people are content with only the obligatory prayers and do not perform these voluntary prayers for their entire lives.
The Shaykh:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. May Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. One should maintain the regular voluntary prayers along with the obligatory prayers, because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) encouraged them, and because he (peace and blessings be upon him) used to maintain them. And he (peace and blessings be upon him) informed that these regular voluntary prayers will complete the obligatory prayers on the Day of Resurrection. If there is a deficiency in the obligatory prayers, it will be completed from these regular voluntary prayers, so one should maintain them. Except if one is traveling and shortens the prayer, in which case he does not perform these regular voluntary prayers. Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) said, "If I were in a state of voluntary prayer, meaning performing voluntary prayers, I would complete the prayer, except for the regular voluntary prayer of Fajr, for the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not leave it, neither when present nor when traveling." Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you, Shaykh,
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 27 من 28/شرح كتاب آداب المشي إلى الصلاة/طلحة ابن مصرف/صالح الفوزان/الفقه/كبار العلماء — youtube.com (0:57)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.