What is the ruling on delaying the prayer during a university lecture?

The questioner : The seventeenth question. We are a group of university students. We attend the prayer while we are in a lecture, so we delay it from its time. We delay it slightly before its time. The lecture concerns matters of religion. What is the ruling on delaying it?

The Shaykh : The obligatory thing. This man says that the time for prayer comes and we are in a religious lecture at the university. And we delay the prayer. Divorce. From its time slightly.

The questioner : So what do we do?

The Shaykh : We say that the obligatory thing. Okay. For the officials in the university. It is obligatory upon them. To. To. Look. Yes. Into these lectures. You accumulated. So whatever of them coincides with the time of prayer. Is he excused? Either by advancing it. In it. Or by delaying it. Look. Because in that there is a great benefit. Rather, in that there are benefits. Among the most important of which is that the students. Beauty. Feel that the prayer has a status with the officials in the university. And that they are Muslims by their prayers. As for if the matter is left like this and the lectures come whether in the prayer or do not come to their day. Speech. This is not befitting. I wanted. So it is obligatory upon the officials in the university to observe that. What? And as for delaying it from the beginning of its time. Oh. Then this is permissible if the person is harmed. Greatly. In his lessons if he leaves the lecture. But it is not permissible to delay it from the time no matter how easy it is. And he does not advance it before the time.

The questioner : The second part of the question. We are sometimes forced to pray in the open areas and the clothes near the mosque because of its narrowness. What is the ruling on that?

The Shaykh : Yes, there is no harm in that. To that. If a person is forced. To pray in the market. Or in the open areas around the mosque. Hand. Then this is permissible. For this reason, this is even with those who say that the prayer is not valid in the road. Sick. They exclude from that. Khalid. The Friday prayer. Its day. And the festival prayer. If the mosque becomes full until the people go out to the markets. Yes. And the correct view is that it is excluded from that whenever the need calls for it. Come. So if the mosque becomes full whether in the Friday prayer or in the festival prayer. Happy. Then there is no harm in their praying in the markets. And upon the masters.