Ruling on delaying the time of prayer beyond its specified time
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We are studying in a school, and the time for prayer is set for 3:25, when the prayer is held; the 'Asr prayer; because we do not leave the classrooms until 3:25.
The Shaykh: And where are you?The questioner: In Riyadh.
The Shaykh: The time enters at 3:25.
The questioner: You leave the classrooms at 3:25, and the time has entered at 3:00 or earlier.
The Shaykh: No, it does not enter at 3:00 in Riyadh.
The questioner: In winter, it happens, O Shaykh. The Shaykh: The important thing is that you pray after the time has entered.
The questioner: After the time has entered, we all leave the classrooms, about four hundred students, and some students leave the classrooms, asking permission from the teacher, and leave the classroom to perform it in congregation at a time other than the time the center has set for the student to leave. Is their action permissible, that they leave to pray without asking permission from the teacher?
The Shaykh: In the mosques?The questioner: They do not ask permission from the teacher. The Shaykh: They pray in the mosques, I mean?The questioner: In the mosque, which is the right of the center. They leave in groups, in every mosque there are about six or seven groups, and the official congregation has not arrived?
This, may Allah reward you, requires an answer that a letter come to us from the director of the center so that we can clarify it to him.
The questioner: The director of the center is a disbeliever. The Shaykh: A disbeliever?! The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: This is not possible;Because if I said: If this is forbidden, for example, and delaying the prayer for the sake of a large congregation and agreement is better,Meaning: These people want to hasten in the first part of the time, that is good, but if there are benefits in their delaying to the last part of the time, and they are: First: avoiding being an outlier.
And the second: A large gathering, then it is better.
The questioner: Their leaving is not for the sake of preserving the time. The Shaykh: The time does not end with this; the time of 'Asr is until about half an hour remains before sunset. I do not see them leaving the classrooms; rather, I see that they remain and pray with their brothers, and they abandon being an outlier and fulfill the lesson that is obligatory upon them, because this lesson is obligatory upon them.
The Shaykh: And where are you?The questioner: In Riyadh.
The Shaykh: The time enters at 3:25.
The questioner: You leave the classrooms at 3:25, and the time has entered at 3:00 or earlier.
The Shaykh: No, it does not enter at 3:00 in Riyadh.
The questioner: In winter, it happens, O Shaykh. The Shaykh: The important thing is that you pray after the time has entered.
The questioner: After the time has entered, we all leave the classrooms, about four hundred students, and some students leave the classrooms, asking permission from the teacher, and leave the classroom to perform it in congregation at a time other than the time the center has set for the student to leave. Is their action permissible, that they leave to pray without asking permission from the teacher?
The Shaykh: In the mosques?The questioner: They do not ask permission from the teacher. The Shaykh: They pray in the mosques, I mean?The questioner: In the mosque, which is the right of the center. They leave in groups, in every mosque there are about six or seven groups, and the official congregation has not arrived?
This, may Allah reward you, requires an answer that a letter come to us from the director of the center so that we can clarify it to him.
The questioner: The director of the center is a disbeliever. The Shaykh: A disbeliever?! The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: This is not possible;Because if I said: If this is forbidden, for example, and delaying the prayer for the sake of a large congregation and agreement is better,Meaning: These people want to hasten in the first part of the time, that is good, but if there are benefits in their delaying to the last part of the time, and they are: First: avoiding being an outlier.
And the second: A large gathering, then it is better.
The questioner: Their leaving is not for the sake of preserving the time. The Shaykh: The time does not end with this; the time of 'Asr is until about half an hour remains before sunset. I do not see them leaving the classrooms; rather, I see that they remain and pray with their brothers, and they abandon being an outlier and fulfill the lesson that is obligatory upon them, because this lesson is obligatory upon them.