A worker who combines the Zuhr, 'Asr, and Maghrib prayers in the time of Maghrib (because the factory owner gets angry and does not allow him to) — is this prayer of his sufficient?

The questioner : We have, O our Shaykh, workers. I was talking to them about preserving the prayer, and I was surprised by the advice of an old man who was preserving the prayer. He said, "I pray." I said to him, "How do you pray? I don't see you praying." He said, "After I leave my work, I pray Maghrib, Zuhr, and 'Asr." Because it is difficult for me to stop my work and stand to pray, so that the boss does not get angry. Is this prayer valid? He leaves the Zuhr, 'Asr, and Maghrib prayers to combine them all at once, and he prays 'Isha after he goes to his house.

The Shaykh : This is, what Allah willed, combining what the first and last generations did not combine.

The questioner : That one is not a worker.

The Shaykh : Notice with me how he is, and how he cares about the anger of the created being, his boss, while he does not care about the anger of the One who created him and created his boss, if I may express it that way, and the legal expression is that he does not care about the anger of the Lord of the Worlds. This means that they prefer worldly life over the Hereafter. The problem is that the youth today, and more specifically before today, were lost; there were no callers who would guide the people, enlighten them, and make them aware of their religion, and explain it to them. And so they became like the elderly; what comes to the mind of any one of them when he draws near to Allah and worships Allah? As for: , this does not come to their minds, let alone that the severe warning that came regarding the one who neglects prayer and takes it out of its time, without an excuse of sleep or forgetfulness, comes to the mind of any one of them, such as His saying (peace and blessings be upon him): , in the other hadith, , and "watar" means he perished, like the one whose house burned down with its people and wealth in it; he only missed the 'Asr prayer. So imagine the heedlessness of these people regarding their religion and the worship of their Lord, who did not create them to work for their masters, so that he would excuse himself by fearing that his master would get angry. And our Lord says in the clear, noble Qur'an: , . The realities have been reversed for people; they neglect the causes that are necessary, and they elevate and place in the position of the necessary causes those causes that are not necessary but are prescribed to be taken. Paradise is forbidden to the disbelievers and forbidden to the open sinners, and none enter it except the believers. And it was from the proclamation of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq (may Allah be pleased with him) when the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) sent him ahead of the year of his Hajj (peace and blessings be upon him) to Mecca in the season of Hajj, which was before the Hajj of the Messenger, that he ordered him to announce these proclamations for that season because the polytheists were still there: , because they used to circumambulate naked, , and thus our Lord (Mighty and Majestic) created the servants so that they would worship Him; He did not create them so that they would be concerned with sustenance, because He said the Exalted: , and in the authentic hadith: , meaning, seek guidance from Me and I will guide you. These people do not seek guidance, so they reverse the principle of taking causes, especially those that are from the lawful causes. One of them imagines that if he sits in the house, his sustenance will not come to him, but he does not imagine that if he disobeys his Lord, Paradise will not come to him, because the price of Paradise is high; its price is faith and righteous deeds. And so Allah the Exalted said in the noble Qur'an: , meaning Paradise. .
Preserving the prayer is a very important matter, and the importance of preserving the prayer returns to two things, one of which I mentioned earlier, which is that Allah the Exalted created us to worship Him, and the greatest worship after faith in Allah and the second pillar is preserving the prayer. But the second importance of these prayers is that they purify the person from the effects of his sins and the burdens of these sins that accumulate on the person night and day, as he (peace and blessings be upon him) said in the authentic hadith: , thus, between the prayer and the prayer are expiations for these. And as in the other authentic hadith, which is his saying (peace be upon him): , five times, he bathes in a deep, flowing, abundant river, and nothing of his dirt remains on his body. So, however righteous we are, however scrupulous we are, our foot must slip a little or a lot, each person according to his level, especially the youth, whose desires are immense, strong, and intense, as he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: , his share of unlawful sexual intercourse, because unlawful sexual intercourse has degrees and ranks, as the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) mentioned in this hadith: , meaning the touch, meaning the handshake, which has become a custom today, and this was not a custom in the lands of Islam, but it entered them because of the colonization of the disbelievers of the lands of Islam. So what a person might escape from is the result of these preliminaries, which is unlawful sexual intercourse, as for a glance like this, a treacherous one, one does not escape from it except as we say, the prophets and the truthful ones and the like of them.