Is it permissible to divide the night prayer in the last ten days into tarawih and tahajjud?
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The questioner : What is happening now, O Shaykh, in Ramadan in the last ten days? They divide the prayer, the prayer of standing, at the beginning of the night and at the end of it, and this has become a permanent system?
The Shaykh : It is a religious innovation (bid'ah).
The questioner : Well, how should it be? I mean, if we want to establish the Sunnah and make it easier for the people, how do we do it?
The Shaykh : You delay it, as 'Umar ibn al-Khattab said: "And the one they delay is better." That is, he ordered Ubayy ibn Ka'b to lead the people in the prayer of standing after the 'Isha' prayer, so he did. When he came out and was feeling the situation, he said: "This is a blessed innovation, and the one in which they sleep is better."
The questioner : So the situation remains as it was before the last ten days?
The Shaykh : Yes, exactly.
The Shaykh : It is a religious innovation (bid'ah).
The questioner : Well, how should it be? I mean, if we want to establish the Sunnah and make it easier for the people, how do we do it?
The Shaykh : You delay it, as 'Umar ibn al-Khattab said: "And the one they delay is better." That is, he ordered Ubayy ibn Ka'b to lead the people in the prayer of standing after the 'Isha' prayer, so he did. When he came out and was feeling the situation, he said: "This is a blessed innovation, and the one in which they sleep is better."
The questioner : So the situation remains as it was before the last ten days?
The Shaykh : Yes, exactly.
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