What is the time for the pre-dawn meal, and what is its virtue?
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Question:
If one eats the pre-dawn meal at the beginning of the night, and then drinks water and eats a date before the Fajr adhan?
Answer:
The intended purpose is achieved.
Q: Some people say: Since the calendar is not accurate, it is permissible to eat after the adhan by five or ten minutes?
The Shaykh: One should be cautious; the believer should exercise caution.
Q: His statement: "and their entry into the prayer," does this mean that abstaining was after the adhan?
The Shaykh: Yes, one must abstain before the dawn. In the other narration: and in this narration: The intended meaning is that one eats and drinks until the dawn, just as the Exalted and Majestic is He said: [al-Baqarah: 187] So eating and drinking continue until the end of the night.
If one eats the pre-dawn meal at the beginning of the night, and then drinks water and eats a date before the Fajr adhan?
Answer:
The intended purpose is achieved.
Q: Some people say: Since the calendar is not accurate, it is permissible to eat after the adhan by five or ten minutes?
The Shaykh: One should be cautious; the believer should exercise caution.
Q: His statement: "and their entry into the prayer," does this mean that abstaining was after the adhan?
The Shaykh: Yes, one must abstain before the dawn. In the other narration:
Between the adhan and the pre-dawn meal is the length of fifty verses
بين الأذان والسحور قدر خمسين آيةBetween the pre-dawn meal and the prayer
بين السحور والصلاةAnd eat and drink until the white thread of dawn becomes distinct to you from the black thread [of night]. Then complete the fast until the sunset.
وَكُلُوا وَاشْرَبُوا حَتَّى يَتَبَيَّنَ لَكُمُ الْخَيْطُ الْأَبْيَضُ مِنَ الْخَيْطِ الْأَسْوَدِ مِنَ الْفَجْرِ ثُمَّ أَتِمُّوا الصِّيَامَ إِلَى اللَّيْلِ
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