Can You Pray During Sunrise?

Alhamdulillah.

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Yesterday morning we discussed the three basic times in which prayer is prohibited. Now when we say prayer is prohibited, we are speaking about optional extra prayer. Prayer that is not the obligatory prayer of the five daily prayers. We're not talking about the the two and four and four and three and four respectively. We're not speaking about those prayers. Those prayers are to be made as immediately as a person is able. If a person sleeps through a prayer, if a person forgets a prayer and then remembers this prayer during the these times, they are to make the prayer immediately. These times don't apply to that. So in this narration of that we discussed yesterday and before yesterday in which he tells us that the prophet sallall.aii Wasam used to prohibit us from praying and burying our dead during three times throughout the day. And he said at the when the sun rises and when the sun sets and when the sun is at high noon, these are times when optional prayer is prohibited. But obligatory prayer, this doesn't apply to that. And this is actually a common mistake, probably more common than you would expect. A person would wake up during sunrise, having missed the clock or what have you for fud. They wake up during sunrise. They see the sun is rising. And so they say, "Well, now that the sun is rising, we have to wait 20, 30 minutes before we can make salah because salah is prohibited during this time." Incorrect. This does not apply to the obligatory prayers. Our prophet sallallah.aii wasallam says, He saysam, "Whoever sleeps through a prayer or forgets it, then he is to pray it immediately upon remembering." There is no other experation or anything that can take its place except for to actually make that prayer. A person when a person wakes up late let's say they set their alarm they intend to wake up for fudger they intend to wake up on time but they miss it and so then they wake up halfway through sunrise we know starts at the break of dawn on true dawn until the sun rise. Correct? That is the time of fud for someone under normal circumstances. But if a person sleeps through a prayer or forgets a prayer, the time of is not that the time of for that person is as soon as they wake up is once they remember. No matter when it is. Let's say a person loses consciousness and fails to make fud until 2:00 in the afternoon. When is for that person? 2:00 in the afternoon. Exactly. Let's say a person has a surgery and that surgery goes from all the way to they can make and early before they go in. But if time is not in yet, they cannot make. So let's say they go in at 11:00 and they get out of surgery at 10:00 and then they're in recovery and sleeping, etc., and the drugs are wearing off and all that great stuff that I'm sure we've all experienced or many of us. And then finally when they come to and they're able to pray at 7:00 in the morning, what time is for that person? 7:00 in the morning that is the time that they make and and etc. The time for prayer for a person under normal circumstances for fud is the break of true dawn until the sun rises. But a person who has forgotten when is the time of prayer for that person when he remembers. A person who is sleeping not purposely right but they fall asleep or they're sleeping. what time is for that person when they wake up etc. And we will get to that later on in the chapters. Today we'll take a narration on the authority of now or so it is with the companion came and accepted Islam in the early days in Mecca. But when he heard of the prophet sallallah.aii wasallam and came to Mecca and found him, he found him in the harshest hardest time of persecution in Mecca. And so he came and he accepted Islam and he wanted to move to Mecca and be with the prophet sallall.aii wasallam. But he said to him, "This is a very bad time right now. you will not be able to handle it with us, especially as an outsider. So go back to your land and when you hear that I have established outside of Mecca, then come to me. And so he accepted Islam, returned to his respective village. And then later when about 10 years later when the prophet sallallah.aii wasallam made hij and established himself in Medina who walks through the doorbet and he says do you remember me? That's what he said. You know the prophet sallallah.aii wasallam has been through all kinds of stuff. He's met all kinds of people since then. As a matter of fact, since the time of Absah, he's been to the heavens to meet Allah himself. Right? So when Absa walks in and says, "Do you remember me?" It's highly unlikely that he would remember him. Correct? He said, "You're the man that came to me in Mecca." They remembered him. And then the prophet sallallah.aii wasallam proceeded to teach him about the most critical part of his religion and his worship, which is salah. He said to him, it's a very long narration actually. You can find the narration in he says to He says, "Pray fud the morning prayer, the prayer of the dawn." And then refrain from praying after what? After. Refrain from praying until the sun rises. until the sun rises above the horizon. He says, he says, "Because when the sun rises, it rises between the two horns of a shan." And that is the wording of a shan. What does this mean? Does this mean that the sun is rising between the two horns of El? No, that's not what the narration says. So in the time of Jahya, people used to worship the sun. People used to worship the sun and the most ideal time for worshiping the sun when they would physically pray to the sun is when it is first rising and peaking above the horizon. Why? Because when a person prays, it is right in front of him. And so they believed that this is the time when the sun allows us to worship it. That's why it's so low in the horizon for us humans, us mere mortals to be able to bow and prostrate to it. And so they would pray when the sun is rising. They would pray when the sun is setting. And so the prophet sallallah.aii wasallam prohibited the Muslim from praying during that time. Why? Because even though the Muslim's intention has nothing to do with worshiping the sun, the outward appearance still matches. Correct? An onlooker could mistake their prayer for the prayer of those who are worshiping the sun. And if there is no distinguishing feature between two actions except for intention then if then this is considered to be this is considered to be imitation rather a person intends it or not. So the prophet sallallah.aii wasallam prohibited the companions from this. We will continue this tomorrow.

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