What is your opinion regarding the imam who does not sit between the iqamah and the adhan except for a very brief moment?
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The questioner : The question concerns the phenomenon of hastening the iqamah, which has become a source of praise in the mosque for the one who hastens it, and which has led to the abandonment of the mushafs due to the speed?
The Shaykh : First: The authorities responsible for endowments have distributed a schedule indicating the duration between the adhan and the iqamah. Obedience to the rulers is obligatory in matters other than the disobedience of Allah. The ministry has a perspective on determining the duration so that the mosques do not differ. If they differed, and you passed by a person who had opened his shop or was standing in the market with his companion, and you said, "Pray," and the mosques were different, he would say to you, "I prayed in such-and-such mosque," and you would not be able to say, "No," because a person is a trustee over his religion. If the iqamah is unified as the adhan is unified, no one will have an excuse. This is the ministry's perspective. If we assume that this system is directive rather than mandatory, then the imam should not hasten the iqamah for the prayer that has a rawatib (regular voluntary prayers) before it, such as the Fajr prayer and the Zuhr prayer, because people need time to perform wudu' and pray the rawatib. He should pay attention to this. He should also pay attention to Fajr in the summer days and the shortness of the night, because people may not get enough sleep and may not wake up until after the adhan, so they need to wait a little. Yes.
The Shaykh : First: The authorities responsible for endowments have distributed a schedule indicating the duration between the adhan and the iqamah. Obedience to the rulers is obligatory in matters other than the disobedience of Allah. The ministry has a perspective on determining the duration so that the mosques do not differ. If they differed, and you passed by a person who had opened his shop or was standing in the market with his companion, and you said, "Pray," and the mosques were different, he would say to you, "I prayed in such-and-such mosque," and you would not be able to say, "No," because a person is a trustee over his religion. If the iqamah is unified as the adhan is unified, no one will have an excuse. This is the ministry's perspective. If we assume that this system is directive rather than mandatory, then the imam should not hasten the iqamah for the prayer that has a rawatib (regular voluntary prayers) before it, such as the Fajr prayer and the Zuhr prayer, because people need time to perform wudu' and pray the rawatib. He should pay attention to this. He should also pay attention to Fajr in the summer days and the shortness of the night, because people may not get enough sleep and may not wake up until after the adhan, so they need to wait a little. Yes.