Discussion of the Prayer of the Festival: Its Ruling and the Ruling for One Who Missed the Prayer
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
The Shaykh : The Prayer of the Festival, and we clarified that the ruling of the Prayer of the Festival is
The student: ...
The Shaykh : a collective obligation. We chose the position that it is an individual obligation, and that every male who is able to attend it but does not attend is sinful. This is what we have established. All right.
And we also established that if it is missed, then
The student: ...
The Shaykh : If the Prayer of the Festival is missed, it is not made up, just as with the Friday prayer; if it is missed by a person, he does not make it up. All right. If someone were to say that this analogy is refuted because if the Friday prayer is missed, the midday prayer is prayed in its place, how do we respond to this refutation? Yes?
The student: ...
The Shaykh : We say that this is not intended to be the Friday prayer of two units with two sermons, but rather he prays the midday prayer because it is the obligatory prayer of that time. As for the Festival, there is no obligatory prayer in its time other than this specific prayer in this specific form. So if it is missed by a person, and the person comes while the imam is delivering the sermon—and as we all know, the sermon for the Festival takes place after the prayer—he does not make up the Prayer of the Festival; it was missed. But he prays two units before sitting down as a greeting to the mosque, because the place of the Festival prayer has the ruling of mosques. The evidence for this is that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered menstruating women to stay away from it and not sit in it, and this is the ruling of mosques.
The student: ...
The Shaykh : a collective obligation. We chose the position that it is an individual obligation, and that every male who is able to attend it but does not attend is sinful. This is what we have established. All right.
And we also established that if it is missed, then
The student: ...
The Shaykh : If the Prayer of the Festival is missed, it is not made up, just as with the Friday prayer; if it is missed by a person, he does not make it up. All right. If someone were to say that this analogy is refuted because if the Friday prayer is missed, the midday prayer is prayed in its place, how do we respond to this refutation? Yes?
The student: ...
The Shaykh : We say that this is not intended to be the Friday prayer of two units with two sermons, but rather he prays the midday prayer because it is the obligatory prayer of that time. As for the Festival, there is no obligatory prayer in its time other than this specific prayer in this specific form. So if it is missed by a person, and the person comes while the imam is delivering the sermon—and as we all know, the sermon for the Festival takes place after the prayer—he does not make up the Prayer of the Festival; it was missed. But he prays two units before sitting down as a greeting to the mosque, because the place of the Festival prayer has the ruling of mosques. The evidence for this is that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered menstruating women to stay away from it and not sit in it, and this is the ruling of mosques.