The questioner asks and says: If the time for congregational prayer conflicts with the time of the exam or its middle, what is the answer?

The questioner : In the name of Allah, all praise is due to Allah, and may peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah, and upon his family and his Companions and whoever follows them. As for what follows:
He asksThe questioner : and says: If the time for congregational prayer conflicts with the time of the exam or its middle, what is the answer? May Allah reward you with good.

The Shaykh : The answer is that the fundamental methodology is not based on the Shari'ah, and whatever is built upon what is defective is itself defective. This is the case with those who entered such a school where the curricula were established without regard to the rulings of the Shari'ah; therefore, it is self-evident that the outcome will also, consequently, be contrary to the Shari'ah. For this reason, there is a wisdom or a common Syrian proverb that says: "He who does not want to see distressing dreams should not sleep between the graves." So, he who wants to adhere to the Shari'ah does not affiliate with an education or methodology that contradicts the Shari'ah. And when he does so and affiliates with it, such a question does not arise; because he is unable, on the one hand, to waste those efforts and those years he spent in ... to present, at this hour of the exam or test, the result of that acquisition. If he does so, he has fallen into an open contradiction of the Shari'ah. Therefore, a person should begin the pursuit of knowledge upon the correct scientific methodology; because whatever is built upon what is sound is sound, and whatever is built upon what is defective is defective. Yes.