Muhammad Carr – 17 Preferred Times for Prayer Ba Fadl’s The Short Abridgement

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have reached lesson number 17. Lesson number 17 deals with the

preferred times for Salah. The author starts off by mentioning

what afvalul aramali al mubadara to be Salat if he a wali wakti.

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you would recall that in our last lesson, we had discussed the

beginning time, and also we had discussed the end time, by way of

example, in terms of the Lord prayer, it begins when the sun

moves away from its zenith, and comes to an end when the shadow of

a given object is equal to the object, and you'd have To add the

length of the shadow at Zenith.

Another example would be the Madrid prayer. The time begins

when the sun sets. In other words, the entire disc disappears from

the horizon, and Alternatively, it ends when the red glow disappears

in the horizon. So we had been looking at the beginning times and

the End Times. The author now discusses what is the optimum,

what is the best time for you to perform any given prayer? And he

says, What Afghan, the word afval

is from the root letters far mod lamb, which means to be virtuous

or Excellent. What Abdul Amal, the most virtuous, or most excellent,

Atmel, is the plural of the word Amal. The most excellent of

actions would be al mubara to be solid if a Mubarak to hasten this

in order to perform the prayer for a Wali, wakti ha in its first

time. So here there's a ground rule. The best action would be

those actions performed in the beginning of its time. The best

prayer would be the prayer performed in the beginning of its

time. What is the proof for that? The proof reads as follows, the

Hadith Ibn RadiAllahu, Anhu annahu Khan, due to the narration of Ibn

mas road, he says sail to Nabi ya Sallallahu Alaihi will arm Ali

aval I asked the Prophet sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam,

which actions are best. He responded by saying, A swara to

the owalivakti had to perform the prayer in its first time. And

Allah subhanaw taala knows, knows best. Now the next issue, which is

addressed here in our individual explained being the last let's

start off by our practice normally. Currently, we are in war

time Assad is soon to come. Normally, what happens is, before

the Assad time sits in, I would prepare myself. I go to leave

myself. I perform the ritual ablution, and I make my way to the

mosque. By the time I reach the mosque, the prayer hasn't set in.

The caller to prayer will call out the prayer, and now the time sits

in. Immediately thereafter, I pray. So have I prayed my Assad

prayer in its first time? Absolutely, I've done that. Is it

necessary to do that before the time sets in? Our scholars simply

answer and say no. In other words, the following scenario, what

happens is I wait for the time of Asur to sit in the moment the time

sets in. I busy myself with preparing for the prayer after

having fulfilled the preparation, which takes an X amount of time, I

now perform my prayer, am I considered to have performed my

prayer in its first time? Absolutely. And that is basically

what our scholars say. And Allah SWT knows, knows, knows best. The

next question we're going to ask would be, what is preparation for

Salah entail? I don't want to

bite out the point too much, but just to make it clearer to myself

and to yourself,

when are you considered as having performed any given prayer in the

first time

you would have been considered as praying the prayer in its first

time?

When, after the time has set in, you begin your preparation, and

then you perform the salah. Getting the first world doesn't

mean the moment that the Adhan is called out, the moment the prayer

sits in. And you perform the prayer immediately. Now only you

gain the virtue of performing the prayer in his first time. And

Allah SWT knows, best this read through the text. In that regard,

it says the virtue of the initial time is acquired by engaging in

preparation for the salah after the time has entered and to then

pray. What is preparation entail? Preparation entails the following.

Number one is a tour to do what is necessary in terms of your ritual

ablution. Number two is covering one's nakedness, calling out the

adhan, calling out the karma, and then praying and Allah subhanaw

taala knows, knows best. We now go on to the next slide, be in the

last. So what has clearly been established thus far that the most

virtuous of deeds would be prayer in its first time. Therefore all

prayers, the best time to perform the prayer would be the moment

that prayer sits in and Allah knows as best. There's some sort

of an exception, if you want to. And it takes us to the next slide.

What is the next slide? Talk about? It says, Why you send, I

borrowed. It is recommended, Sanna, ya sunna or sunnah. You

sunnu, to be sunnah. What is to be sunna mean? It means that you will

be rewarded for doing it, but you will not be punished for omitting

it. That is the definition of the term sunnah. Wausannuul ibrahida,

the word ibrahi means

to make cool. Barada. Baridan means to be called ibrahi, to

cause something to be cool. While you send an Ibra to be Lord, it is

recommended that you make the Lord cool. What does it mean? In other

words, defer the Lord. So if we know at region, and let's say Lord

kicks in at 12 o'clock, the sun moves away from its zenith. It is

extremely hot at that time the Prophet saw him is saying, make

the Lord cool. In other words, defer voor to a cooler time that

is recommended. That is the ruling Wausau Ibara do before, it is

recommended for you to defer war to a later time Wafi. But this

doesn't apply to any and all circumstances. The Sunni

recommendedness of deferring the Lord, prayer applies when certain

conditions are met. What are those conditions? He also talks about

it. And he said, fish eat that. El Harry, when they severe heat, feel

cutter in hiring, when you find yourself in a heart region. Lima

you. Sally jamaatin, for a person intending to perform the prayer in

a congregation the masjid by eating in a masjid that is far

off.

Uh, worry not inshaAllah. We're going to unpack all of those

conditions one by one. For now, we're going to concern ourselves.

What is the proof? So the general rule is that perform any given

prayer in its first time that is the most virtuous thing for you to

do. Number one, number two is there's an exception to the rule.

What is that exception in the form of of war, when conditions are

met? What is the proof for that? The proof for that is Kaur Nabi,

salallahu, alaihi salam ishtaid al Hu the Prophet sallallahu Salim

said that when the heat is severe, Ida stat del Harbor, when the heat

is severe, for Abu salah, then defer the prayer for in nasheed

that Al habimin fahi jahanan, he informs us that the severe heat

that a person experiences immediately after midday, that is

from the fire of *. How exactly

the fire of *, which exists in another world altogether, how that

impacts on our world. Allah subhana knows, knows best, another

one of those mysteries of our existence. So what is the meaning

of all what we've been mentioned now I know you, son. Will ibrahi,

that making the Lord cool is recommended, in other words, to

defer the prayer from its first time. Illa, ayasi, Ralli, villain.

So we say you must defer the prayer, but the question will come

into your mind, okay? We know hot region on a hot day

in the hot season, it is recommended that we defer the door

pay till what time is the next very important question. So our

scholars say until such a time that the sun had moved towards the

west. Now, as the sun moves towards the west, then it

elongates. It elongates the shadow. So the moment you find

that a wall is providing a shadow

in which a person is able to walk in. So when we're talking about

deferring the Lord prayer in a heart region, it means to defer

the Lord prayer until such a time where a hall develops a shadow in

which a person may, may walk, and Allah subhanaw taala knows, knows

best. We look to the next, next issue now with Nila Suba hanutana,

and here I'm going to be focusing and reading through the slides,

which are actually prepared from Al Bayan with tariff, we going to

look at that now. So we said it is recommended to defer

unconditionally. No, there are certain conditions.

What are those conditions we look to that now it reads as follows.

So the condition is war must be the prayer in question. In other

words, delaying is not stipulated for Juma and neither for the other

prayers. So delaying, a prayer number one, is only related to

war. So your mind might tell you that, look on a Friday, jumua

takes the place of war. So we need to defer the

Juma as well. It is recommended to defer Juma. No, it does not apply.

Why? Because the text relating to Juma specific in terms of

hastening the Jumaa and doing the Jumaa in the first possible time

in Allah knows that's best. Likewise, all the other prayers

are excluded. In other words, it's not recommended to refer the fajr

prayer, not recommended to defer the asaru prayer, neither the

mother, neither the Isha and Allah SWT. The second condition would be

that the heat must be severe. It must also be in the heat season,

and it must be not climatic area. Now, so what are we talking about?

This is relating to the heat. Mild heat wouldn't impact for example,

we live in Cape Town, southern most tip of Africa. It is a mild

Mediterranean climate. It does get hot, but not severely hot. So in

relation to us here, this particular practice of deferring

the war prayer is simply not applicable because the conditions

which are

which justify the deferment are not to be found. It as simple as

as that, if I want to replace what I've mentioned over here, it would

read as follows that it must be in the hot season, in a hot region,

and the heat must be very severe. And Allah SWT knows best. If any

of those conditions are found lacking, then there's no

justification to defer the Lord, and Allah SWT knows knows best.

The next condition reads as follows, the person must be

performing Salah in Jamaah. Now this restriction applies to other

than a person intending to perform Salah individually in the masjid,

as it is recommended for him to defer as as well. If we can just

run through that again, what happens is the condition reads

that in order for you to defer the Lord, in order for it to be

recommended for you to do that, you must be praying in

congregation. This refers to a person who intends to pray other

than in a other than in a masjid. In other words, if you intend to

pray in the masjid, even though you're going to be praying

individually, it would be recommended for you, despite that,

the fact that, despite the fact that you're going to be performing

your prayer individually, despite that reality, it is still

recommended for you to defer in Allah, SWT knows that's best. The

Salah must be in a distant place. That's the last condition. Measure

of distance would be such a distance that the person's hushu.

What do we refer to as hushu? In other words, the humbleness and

humility is going to become impacted. So in other words,

if the masjid is right next door, and you simply have to exit from

your door and enter into the door next door. So what has happened in

terms of your state being taken out of equilibrium and out of a

state of tranquility and peace? But the despite the fact that it's

very hot, the distance that you covered hasn't negatively impacted

upon you in any way. So therefore, in relation to you, it is not

going to be recommended that you defer the Lord pray. And Allah

knows knows best. We go on to the next slide be Illa Subhana wa

taala. And this is really a reiteration we've looked before in

terms of deferring the prayer without a valid reason, without

traveling, without sickness, or whatever the case may be, it

is considered to be a a major sin. Here, that particular point is

somewhat iterated, reiterated, and the author says, Woman achar of

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whoever defers the prayer so much so that a part of the prayer

occurs outside of the stipulated time, but really ordering without

a valid excuse. Asa is considered to be a a a sinner, and ALLAH

SubhanA knows, knows what's best. We go on to the next point being

last. It's it relates to not knowing the the time a person is

going to pray, but he is unaware of the time and is unable to

ascertain the time. What does a person do in this particular

scenario? The text is wamalam Ya Alam, waktah, whoever does not

know the time of it. In other words, referring to the time of

Salah, you find yourself in a place and you unable to ascertain

the time of the Salah. Can we give an example? Perhaps the

person responsible for the explain to the notes says, mahaline, your

ashams Give an example where a person finds himself and doesn't

know the time. So if.