Ruling on delaying the Fajr prayer until the sun rises
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Q209: The questioner asks: What is the ruling on delaying the Fajr prayer until the sunrise due to sleep?
A209: This requires a detailed explanation. If sleep generally overcomes you and is not a habit, but only overtakes you occasionally, then this is a legitimate religious excuse, and you have no control over it. When you wake up, you should hasten to pray, and you should not do anything before it except the rawatib (the regular voluntary prayers attached to the obligatory ones), specifically the rawatib of Fajr. Then you pray the Fajr prayer after that, whenever you wake up, even if it is at sunrise or after that. As for the second type of sleep: it is intentional sleep, where one delays sleeping until the end of the night and intentionally sleeps. This person does not perform the Fajr prayer in its time, but rather prays it when he gets up. This is invalid, and his prayer is not valid, because he intentionally took it out of its time. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, made it obligatory in its time, and He said:[An-Nisa 4:103], so it is not permissible for you to act in a way that assigns it a time other than the time that
Allah has set for it. If you perform it in a different time, intentionally delaying it, then it is not valid from you. However, you must repent to Allah for the future and be diligent in performing the prayer in its time.
A209: This requires a detailed explanation. If sleep generally overcomes you and is not a habit, but only overtakes you occasionally, then this is a legitimate religious excuse, and you have no control over it. When you wake up, you should hasten to pray, and you should not do anything before it except the rawatib (the regular voluntary prayers attached to the obligatory ones), specifically the rawatib of Fajr. Then you pray the Fajr prayer after that, whenever you wake up, even if it is at sunrise or after that. As for the second type of sleep: it is intentional sleep, where one delays sleeping until the end of the night and intentionally sleeps. This person does not perform the Fajr prayer in its time, but rather prays it when he gets up. This is invalid, and his prayer is not valid, because he intentionally took it out of its time. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, made it obligatory in its time, and He said:
And when you have completed the prayer, remember Allah standing, sitting, or [lying] on your sides. But when you become secure, re-establish [regular] prayer. Indeed, prayer has been decreed upon the believers a decree of specified times.
فَإِذَا قَضَيْتُمُ الصَّلاَةَ فَاذْكُرُوا اللَّهَ قِيَامًا وَقُعُودًا وَعَلَى جُنُوبِكُمْ فَإِذَا اطْمَأْنَنْتُمْ فَأَقِيمُوا الصَّلاَةَ إِنَّ الصَّلاَةَ كَانَتْ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ كِتَابًا مَوْقُوتًاAllah has set for it. If you perform it in a different time, intentionally delaying it, then it is not valid from you. However, you must repent to Allah for the future and be diligent in performing the prayer in its time.
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