Shadee Elmasry – 2 The Prayer Times

The first precondition of the prayer is the entrance of the

time. So we have to pray on time. Now, you can pray to Allah,

anytime, in any language in any place, except for disrespectful

places like the bathroom, you would and pray in the bathroom,

for example. But there's an obligatory ritual prayer, which

has another function. Okay, number one, it's the most important

prayer. Number two, it actually brings our people together brings

Muslims together, right? Because this Prayer must be done at the

Select times, in the same exact way, in the same language. And the

same form, whether from the time of the Prophet until today,

whether it's China, Brazil, America,

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matter. This prayer is done in the same exact way. There's also a

great wisdom regarding the prayer time itself, which is that if

someone says to you pray right now, your sincerity is not there,

it's not coming from you. But at the same time, if you're given an

action, and no deadline, no structure, most of us won't do it

at all. So Allah to Allah has combined the two by giving us a

window, but also limits, right. So within this window of time, you're

gonna pray from your own self. So it brings out the sincerity of a

person. But it also gives us some discipline, in that it gives us a

beginning time and an end time. You cannot pray before the

beginning. All right, and you cannot pray. After it's over?

Well, you can make it up. But you shouldn't delay it past your

sinful if you delay it purposely past regarding the prayer times.

The prayer times are based on the movement of the Sun, which a brand

new Muslim does not need to know that on the spot. What you need to

know, in fact, is merely that you can get an app, you get there are

a million of these Islamic prayer finder, whatever. And the app will

basically tell you the beginning and end of each of the five prayer

times and you'll notice a quarter of the day or half the daylight

hours, there is no prayer. So the first half of the daylight,

there's no prayer. So there's five prayers in the remaining 75% of

the 24 hour cycle. There will be five prayers and for about a

quarter of that from the sunrise all the way until the middle of

the day. There's no obligatory prayer. So it suffices a person

just get the app, get the calendar, and that's a good way to

start.