May we delay the voluntary prayer by about fifteen minutes if the time of sunrise in the calendar is early, and we do not see the sun rise?
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The questioner : The sun rises in these days at about thirty-five to forty minutes; we do not see the sun.
The Shaykh : According to the calendar.
The questioner : Yes, the rise in the calendar. We do not see it rise by the length of a spear, but we know that it is six o'clock, meaning it is certainly risen. So, does that mean it is permissible for us to pray at six o'clock, and we delay by a third of an hour or a quarter of an hour?
The Shaykh : This majority, where are you taking it from? What are you comparing with what?
The questioner : That the sight, the sight, we do not see it.
The Shaykh : You do not see it.
The questioner : Yes, it is by the length of a spear, because the area is mountainous. But if...
The Shaykh : How do you measure a spear? That is...
The questioner : For example, we start with the voluntary prayer.
The Shaykh : Huh? Did you see how your question was? May Allah guide you. I wanted to ask you: are you talking about the obligatory prayer or the voluntary prayer?
The questioner : That, O Shaykh, the intelligent one understands by a hint.
The Shaykh: No, no.
The student : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : It might be this time, or twice, or always. The important thing now is to clarify that the question...
The student : So that we start with the voluntary prayer.
The Shaykh : The answer to this question requires asking: Is the difference between the legal sunrise and the astronomical sunrise known, or is it not known?
The student : It is not known.
The Shaykh : If the answer is that it is not known, that is a mistake. It means you are relying on the astronomical sunrise and the astronomical rise. It means you are praying at the astronomical dawn and leaving the prayer at the astronomical sunrise. This is a mistake and that is a mistake. Because I am in a place, and that is a favor from Allah upon us and upon people, where I see the true dawn and the sunrise, and I find that there is a difference between the true dawn and the second astronomical adhan. I see a difference ranging between twenty-three and twenty-five minutes. That is, they call the adhan about twenty-five minutes before the true dawn. Then I look at the calendar and I find that the sun rises before the sun [in the calendar], while I am observing it, by a quarter of an hour. In other words, if a person does not wake up and looks at the calendar, and the calendar says the sun has now risen, or that five minutes have passed since its rise, he will say that prayer is now forbidden. So we delay it, while the sun has not yet risen for me, and I am on the mountain. So what do you say about the one who is in the valley, when will the sun rise for him? Therefore, your question now, when mentioned, should be preceded by knowing the difference between the legal true dawn and the non-legal adhan, and likewise the sunrise according to the law, according to... At that time, you can know, even if you do not see the sun, whether the sun has risen the length of a spear or two spears, so that the voluntary prayer becomes permissible for you.
The student : May Allah reward you with all good.
The Shaykh : May Allah preserve you.
The student : Last question.
The Shaykh : How much time do you have left, Abu Abdullah?
The student : Five minutes left, our Shaykh.
Another student: Your last question, what is it? The whole problem, you know, Bilal, Bara'.
The Shaykh: Go ahead.
The questioner : If the people of the heavens and the earth were to share in the blood of a believer, Allah - Mighty and Majestic - would cast them into the Fire. This hadith, it seems, is saying about the Messenger - peace and blessings be upon him - we need clarification for whoever kills, whoever is killed in the lands of Islam, of the Muslim youth, and the authority whose soldiers mostly say the word of tawhid (the oneness of Allah).
The Shaykh : As for the hadith, I do not remember now whether it is authentic or not.
The student : "Al-Jami' al-Sahih".
The Shaykh : In "Sahih al-Jami' al-Saghir."
The student : "Sahih al-Jami'".
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you with good.
The student : And may Allah reward you.
The Shaykh : Okay, and what is the rest of the question?
The Shaykh : According to the calendar.
The questioner : Yes, the rise in the calendar. We do not see it rise by the length of a spear, but we know that it is six o'clock, meaning it is certainly risen. So, does that mean it is permissible for us to pray at six o'clock, and we delay by a third of an hour or a quarter of an hour?
The Shaykh : This majority, where are you taking it from? What are you comparing with what?
The questioner : That the sight, the sight, we do not see it.
The Shaykh : You do not see it.
The questioner : Yes, it is by the length of a spear, because the area is mountainous. But if...
The Shaykh : How do you measure a spear? That is...
The questioner : For example, we start with the voluntary prayer.
The Shaykh : Huh? Did you see how your question was? May Allah guide you. I wanted to ask you: are you talking about the obligatory prayer or the voluntary prayer?
The questioner : That, O Shaykh, the intelligent one understands by a hint.
The Shaykh: No, no.
The student : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : It might be this time, or twice, or always. The important thing now is to clarify that the question...
The student : So that we start with the voluntary prayer.
The Shaykh : The answer to this question requires asking: Is the difference between the legal sunrise and the astronomical sunrise known, or is it not known?
The student : It is not known.
The Shaykh : If the answer is that it is not known, that is a mistake. It means you are relying on the astronomical sunrise and the astronomical rise. It means you are praying at the astronomical dawn and leaving the prayer at the astronomical sunrise. This is a mistake and that is a mistake. Because I am in a place, and that is a favor from Allah upon us and upon people, where I see the true dawn and the sunrise, and I find that there is a difference between the true dawn and the second astronomical adhan. I see a difference ranging between twenty-three and twenty-five minutes. That is, they call the adhan about twenty-five minutes before the true dawn. Then I look at the calendar and I find that the sun rises before the sun [in the calendar], while I am observing it, by a quarter of an hour. In other words, if a person does not wake up and looks at the calendar, and the calendar says the sun has now risen, or that five minutes have passed since its rise, he will say that prayer is now forbidden. So we delay it, while the sun has not yet risen for me, and I am on the mountain. So what do you say about the one who is in the valley, when will the sun rise for him? Therefore, your question now, when mentioned, should be preceded by knowing the difference between the legal true dawn and the non-legal adhan, and likewise the sunrise according to the law, according to... At that time, you can know, even if you do not see the sun, whether the sun has risen the length of a spear or two spears, so that the voluntary prayer becomes permissible for you.
The student : May Allah reward you with all good.
The Shaykh : May Allah preserve you.
The student : Last question.
The Shaykh : How much time do you have left, Abu Abdullah?
The student : Five minutes left, our Shaykh.
Another student: Your last question, what is it? The whole problem, you know, Bilal, Bara'.
The Shaykh: Go ahead.
The questioner : If the people of the heavens and the earth were to share in the blood of a believer, Allah - Mighty and Majestic - would cast them into the Fire. This hadith, it seems, is saying about the Messenger - peace and blessings be upon him - we need clarification for whoever kills, whoever is killed in the lands of Islam, of the Muslim youth, and the authority whose soldiers mostly say the word of tawhid (the oneness of Allah).
The Shaykh : As for the hadith, I do not remember now whether it is authentic or not.
The student : "Al-Jami' al-Sahih".
The Shaykh : In "Sahih al-Jami' al-Saghir."
The student : "Sahih al-Jami'".
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you with good.
The student : And may Allah reward you.
The Shaykh : Okay, and what is the rest of the question?
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