Why delay prayer when the time has entered?
The Importance of Praying at the Beginning of Prayer Times
Summary
Sh. Ali Mashhour continues his discussion on prayer timings, focusing on the importance of praying at the beginning of prayer times rather than delaying unnecessarily. He explains that while delaying prayer until the end of its time window is technically permissible, it is discouraged and considered dangerous spiritually. Sh. Ali Mashhour presents two hadith narrations emphasizing the Prophet's practice and encouragement to pray immediately when the time enters, noting that the Prophet's habit was to pray Maghrib as soon as the sun's disc disappeared from the horizon. He also addresses an extreme misinterpretation where some believers pray prayers back-to-back immediately after each other, clarifying that there must be sufficient time between the adhan and prayer for proper preparation, ablution, and the prescribed duas.
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[Arabic recitation]
The chapters regarding the timings of prayer. Yesterday we discussed the dangers of delaying without any particular reason aside from laziness. And the dangers in that. And today the author mentions something that is similar regarding.
[Arabic recitation]
He mentions two narrations regarding the encouragement of the prophet sallall.aii wasallam that we make as soon as begins as soon as its time is in. and the dangers and his discouragement of delaying without any real need to do so. Now when we discuss the timings of prayer, salah has a beginning time and an end time. Every single salah, its end time is the following salah. That's its very last end time except for fud. Fudel obviously has a beginning and end time that separates it and isolates it. Now, if a person were to delay their prayer until the very last part of the time, have they technically technically done anything particularly wrong? No, they haven't. They are not incurring sin if him by doing so. However, they are for sure flying very close to the sun, right? They are in the danger zone. And when the prophet sallallah.aii wasallam was asked which which deeds are are most beloved to Allah, he mentions making salah at its beginning of its time, making prayer at the beginning of its time. soon as it comes in and this is in keeping with a p a person's enthusiasm to make salah. He says he mentions two narrations. One on the authority of and the second on the authority of Salahb narrates that the prophet sallall.aii alaihi wasallam says, "My nation will still be upon goodness as long he he says will still be upon goodness or he said will be upon the as long as they do not delay until the stars spread across the the sky vividly." When the stars become vivid in the sky above this means that we are getting very close to the next narration narrates that the messenger of Allah used to make notice the wording used to make this wording in articulates habit. He used to make this articulates habit. Would we find something that is an exception? Sure, there's exceptions because of circumstance. But this was his habit. Meaning this is what his sunnah is. This is what he sall. Wasam would choose to do given the choice that the messenger of Allah wasallam used to make as soon as the sun set and the dis of the sun was no longer visible above the horizon. Meaning if you were to look at the western horizon when the time for salah begins in the prophet's time sai wasam the western horizon would still be very bright but the dis of the sun is is gone. This means that he was making at the beginning of its time. Now there is another extreme to this right. The other extreme is that some have read this and read narrations this and understood this to mean that a person should make and right after each other that is right at the so in some the for will be made as soon as the is finished the for is made. This is extreme. This is not the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam sunnah because the least amount of time that should be between any adan and this means without need without need. If we have some need it's okay sometimes but to make our habit without any necessity the least amount of time between and should be enough time to make two you should be able to repeat after the make the dua after and then make two before the is made because people technically are not obligated to make wuboo and start coming to the masid until the adan is called. Right? If you were to begin your trek to the masid or you were to begin preparing yourself for salah as soon as the adan is called, you would probably miss a portion of salah before you're even able to finish making. Therefore, the general rule is that the least amount of time between and should at least be enough time to make the proper after following Adam and two.