The Ruling on Breaking the Fast Two Minutes Before the Adhan and Advice to Imams and Mu'adhhdhins
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The questioner:
Now, may Allah bless you. Thank you to the brother calling from al-Qassim. This questioner says: Honorable Shaykh Salih, we broke our fast in the early days of Ramadan in the neighborhood about two minutes before the adhan. The mu'adhdhin called the adhan for Maghrib, and we broke our fast with him, and it turned out that we had advanced by two minutes.
The Shaykh:
If the intention is exactly two minutes, then this is a matter in which leniency is applied, if Allah wills. Yes.
The questioner:
And what is your advice to the imams and mu'adhhdhins, our Shaykh?
The Shaykh:
Our advice to the imams and mu'adhhdhins is to fear Allah in the performance of their duty. The mu'adhdhin must monitor the time, neither advancing nor delaying, because if he advances or delays, he harms the people, for the people follow him and fast and break their fast according to his adhan. So he must fear Allah and be precise in monitoring the time.
If he can see the sun and see the dawn, he relies on the sighting. But if he cannot see that, he relies on the timing, the timing of Am al-Qura adopted by the government, which is a precise and tested timing, and praise be to Allah. And the imam must perform the imamah in the required manner.
In the tarawih prayer and the tahajjud prayer in the last part of the night in the last ten days, after attending to the obligatory duties, he must perform the work he has undertaken, so that he may have his reward and the reward of those who pray behind him. Yes.
Now, may Allah bless you. Thank you to the brother calling from al-Qassim. This questioner says: Honorable Shaykh Salih, we broke our fast in the early days of Ramadan in the neighborhood about two minutes before the adhan. The mu'adhdhin called the adhan for Maghrib, and we broke our fast with him, and it turned out that we had advanced by two minutes.
The Shaykh:
If the intention is exactly two minutes, then this is a matter in which leniency is applied, if Allah wills. Yes.
The questioner:
And what is your advice to the imams and mu'adhhdhins, our Shaykh?
The Shaykh:
Our advice to the imams and mu'adhhdhins is to fear Allah in the performance of their duty. The mu'adhdhin must monitor the time, neither advancing nor delaying, because if he advances or delays, he harms the people, for the people follow him and fast and break their fast according to his adhan. So he must fear Allah and be precise in monitoring the time.
If he can see the sun and see the dawn, he relies on the sighting. But if he cannot see that, he relies on the timing, the timing of Am al-Qura adopted by the government, which is a precise and tested timing, and praise be to Allah. And the imam must perform the imamah in the required manner.
In the tarawih prayer and the tahajjud prayer in the last part of the night in the last ten days, after attending to the obligatory duties, he must perform the work he has undertaken, so that he may have his reward and the reward of those who pray behind him. Yes.
Source
قناة «مكة و المدينة»، 12 فتاوى على الهواء - 06 / 09 / 1433هـ _ الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (28:26)
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