A Detailed Explanation of the Ruling on Voluntary Prayer in the Times of Prohibition

The Shaykh : It is from this that the Shafi'i scholars derived a phrase that summarizes the ruling in this issue, where they said: Voluntary prayers are of two types: those with causes and absolute voluntary prayers that have no causes. As for the first type, its prayer is prescribed even in the disliked times, because leaving it off would cause it to be missed when its occasion passes. As for the absolute voluntary prayer, a person is able to perform voluntary prayer in times other than these prohibited times. This is an example outside the scope of our previous topic: how did he reconcile between a general text that was subjected to specification and a general text that was not subjected to specification? He prioritized this general, non-specified text over the general, specified text, and the result of that was that it is said: There is no prayer after Fajr except, for example, the greeting of the mosque, and likewise, for example, the other prayers or the other times with the prayers that have voluntary components.