 أسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته Welcome to Aqam SOS The show that discusses Islamic practices and duties by His Eminence The Grand ayatullah Sayyid Sadiq Shirazi I am your host Mohsen Shah And join me as always Sheikh Ali Maaj Salam عليكم Sheikh Na وعليكم السلام ورحمة الله نحتاج لدينا مرهقة opposite أس orي And it is the discussion on Salah What is Salah? بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم أصر الله على محمد وآله الطيبين الطاهرين صلاة ، وراءة ، ونقوم بعمل أبليكتوري في which الله سبحانه وتعالى قد قمت بعمل أبليكتوره والأبليكتوره يجب عليهم أن يقوم بعمل أبليكتوره every single day as far as they are breathing and they are alive العالم القرآن يقول بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم في one of the ayat فأقيموا الصلاة في سورة النساء ayat 103 فأقيموا الصلاة الله سبحانه وتعالى قمت بعمل أبليكتوره وإذا الله سبحانه وتعالى قمت بعمل أبليكتوره then the ayat says إن الصلاة كانت على المؤمنين كتابا موقوتا the salah was prescribed on the mu'mineen according to the times so we have to initially pray number one to pray in the way that Allah had prescribed and informed us some people argue that well I can pray my heart in the way that I wish I don't have to follow this sequence of up and down you know raising your head up and down and so forth I can just pray relax you know do yoga you know exercise and pray to Allah سبحانه وتعالى with peace and calmness we say that we have to see how Allah wants us to pray for him the way that he wants how he wants to for us to thank him on the way that he wants because he's the wise he's the creator and he knows the inside out of this creation so we rely on Allah's instructions and guidelines on how to pray to him and with regard to the salah as well that anything that we do is accepted if the salah is accepted in قبلة قبل ما سواها if we pray then the rest of the عمال will be insha'Allah accepted by Allah سبحانه وتعالى and in ردات if the salah was rejected then the other عمال indeed will not be accepted so the salah plays a major part as a pillar for the believers for the practice of the believers important for the one to pay attention to the salah and it is an issue to actually to raise within the youth community that the youth must make sure that they preserve and respect the salah times and they try to pray within the time limit not only to pray on time when the other goes on but also to pray within the time limit so if it's the fajr time to wake up and pray before the sunrise because the barakah the rizq the bounties the graces would be in that one and a half hour and two hours of fajr time so we have to make sure that we educate our youth, our kids our children, friends, family whoever around us to stick and abide with the rules of the salah to make sure we don't let off the salah and God forbid to pray the salah after its time and do g'adah for example أحسنت شخصة هل لدينا أي ناريشن في حالة to the salah and its importance well there is a hadith from the messenger of Allah peace be upon him and his family he says with this regard he says he is not of me he who treats his salah without due consideration he is not of me imagine that if I ignore the salah and pray whenever I wish maybe in the weekends calculate five days of prayers I do g'adah in one hour time let's say a week and try to ignore the salah to pray them on time then imagine the prophet says he is not of me the prophet will reject that person who will say to I am from the Ummah of the prophet the prophet will say no I am not I won't take you on board I mean God forbid in another hadith the prophet says whoever treats his salah without due consideration will not attain my intercession imagine again how much we are desperate on the judgment to get the intercession of the prophet so the daily prayers is a link to the shafa'a of the prophet is a link to the nearness and how close we get to the prophet in that crucial important time the day of judgment so it's worth that we praise Allah we thank Allah for all these graces and bounties that he gave us to thank Allah just 17 times a day I mean we have 17 rak'a I want you to pray a day so why not spend 17 minutes at least of 24 hours this thing about exactly 17 minutes of 24 hours is nothing how much we waste time on TV shows and on going to restaurants and coffee shops so you say on amusement let's be honest a lot of people waste their time on just wasting time things with no sort of benefit whatsoever this time could be invested in Salah exactly and we are in a position of testing Allah is testing us would we be thankful to him or we reject his orders اما شاكرا و اما كفورة to be thankful or disobedient نعود بالله and there's a story about a man when the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم went inside the mosque and he saw a man was praying so quick so the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he raised the issue and he said he picks like a crow if he dies and his Salah is like this he will die with other than my religion imagine how important and situation is real that the one should also not only just to pray it and let it off and just you know let me pray in few seconds and I just leave when you pray you must make sure that you pray with your heart you come before Allah in the time of the Salah with your heart we talk to Allah in the Salah with our heart not only with our tongue and our mind somewhere else is left is in for example in ledges and pledges and so forth our mind should be with Allah SWT to think about His greatness the ayat when I say بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم what is the Bismillah what is الرحمن what is الرحيم or الحمد لله رب العالم and so forth to think about these verses when I start to pray so Salah is where brings me near to Allah SWT these times of the day in which we are busy almost in the morning in the fajr time we are sleeping you have to wake up and talk to Allah SWT in the dawn time and asr you are at work or at school or college or university again you stop everything and you talk to Allah SWT مغرب العشاء it depends again if the time is winter time then you still at work and college and so forth you still have to stop have a break and Salah and talk to Allah SWT and so forth we are in a position every day and a link with Allah SWT why this prayer and it's important that we respect this Salah as we respect our belongings and dwellings and whatever we have that we keep them nice clean we keep the house nice clean we keep the car clean and you know working and so forth that we keep as well as Salah on time and with the correct manner to pray the Salah and as the Hadith says that you pray the Salah of farewell Salat مودعن so you pray as if they tell you that today is your last day in this life how do we pray your final prayer exactly the farewell Salah the final pray so we try to imagine that we are on our last day of life and how do we pray on that last day with complete attention to Allah SWT and worship worship and asking Allah for giving and so forth شكرا شكرا what are the different types of Salah I know we have واجب مصطحاب but how many like واجب Salah now the واجب Salah and obligatory the main ones are five a day you started Salat Subh the Fajr time and then you have ضهر and عصر ضهر and then you have the عصر they both separate and then you have مغرب and عشاء the مغرب is separate and the عشاء is separate so basically for the صلاة الصبح you have two raka'a to do and for the صلاة الصبح is four ركعة and for the صلاة العصر is four raka'a as well for the مغرب and عشاء مغرب is only three raka'a and the عشاء is four so these are make up 17 raka'a a day واجب that you have to pray of course there are desirable and mustaha prayers within these صلاة which is called نافل and وفيلة and so forth which inshaAllah will come up later on in the discussion is one allowed to perform the صلاة before the time or after the time for example it's now مغرب time I'm going to read مغرب and عشاء I feel a bit energetic but I can pray مغرب after that is that allowed No you have to actually follow the sequence of the صلاة so you begin with the ضهر first and then عصر or مغرب first and then عشاء these are timed so you cannot actually switch them and pray مغرب after the عشاء for example or عصر after ضهر after the عصر so you have to make sure that you follow the sequence of these شيخنا when it comes to فِق the shea school of thought gets attacked on that they only pray three times a day and they combine their prayers from a fiki perspective is this allowed or not well this issue is mentioned even in the نون شيعة books that the prophet صلى الله عليه واله he combined the ضهر عصر and مغرب عشاء without any reason and excuse such as the rain for example or the weather for example so he combined them afterwards without any reason any given reason let's say the weather is cold or too hot for example and then and then the same thing they combine the prayers as well so we are following the tradition of the prophet صلى الله عليه واله when he combined the prayers as they say in their books with no reason given reason or excuse and as well they combined so we are following their tradition and those who want to separate and they said that the Sunnah that we have to separate it is their own opinions it's against even the narration that they mentioned that the prophet actually can combine them in his time when does صلى الله عليه واله become واجب on the muqalif and is there any excuse for him not to pray that صلى الله عليه واله the salah becomes واجب on the muqalif the one who reaches the age of puberty and adolescence so when he becomes بالغ other girl or the boy they have to start صلى الله عليه واله and the hoqam is like the adults no difference now they have reached the age of بلوغ they have to begin praying and it's a good idea for the parents for the friends for those who are guardian of the children and so forth that they teach their children in the early ages let's say for the boys 7 or 8 let them try to practice and such for the girls as well in the early ages let's say 5, 6 so if they can I mean it's not واجب but it's good to give them the practice and the fear of salah and by for example buying them gifts promising for them some pleasure activities for example and so forth because it's going to be very difficult to tell his children to pray when they are in the age of let's say 14 or 15 without any practice before it's difficult so they have to be in the stage of teaching them in the early ages of childhood شكرا can you briefly explain and describe the times when salah becomes compulsory yes basically for the morning prayer you have the dawn time the fajr time and it's got it's own signs and basically it can't really be seen in the western western world especially in north Europe and it can be seen actually in in the Middle East so if that fajr and dawn was visible then it is the start of the of the fajr time with regard to the dhoor and asor it begins with the in the midday so when the sun moves to the other side of the earth so the salah will be in that time and you have the Salat المغرب عشاء again after the sunset awhile after the sunset you see the redness on top of your head it's where when that redness comes up from over the head then the Salat time of the المغرب begins so after awhile from the sunset so it's not straight away when the sun sets now it's you have to wait a couple of minutes more and possibly in the Europe you have to wait a bit more because you can't see the redness on top of your head so you have to give it some time I've said here in the west we have extremely short days in the winter time what happens with someone who goes to work and may not have the opportunity to pray Salat at the prescribed times مثلا we look at in the west the Zohar becomes wajib at 11.45 11.50 12 o'clock and it goes qadr مغرب will start at 4pm maybe 3.55 3.50 let's say he doesn't get a break between that period what does the مقالف do in that situation you see the hadith is clear about the Salat that it cannot be left at all the Salat must be performed as best as he can or she can you cannot actually say well I'm at work 4 o'clock is the sunset I can't pray I go back home by 6 the the sky is dark I can't pray it's difficult and somehow you have to make sure that you create an environment that you can pray you do your best to pray on time and if you ask him he will give the the barakah and the bounties and the grace for those who really seek to pray in such situations Allah will protect them will support them will back them so you have to try in somehow to find a place a quiet place to go and pray and usually in the west they would respect the companies would respect colleges university they have prayer room for example I've seen myself in some hospitals they have prayer room at the airports there's a lot which is very good demanding as well many Muslims come and pray so we try to create an environment that we can pray and we try to keep the time and not to do Qaba Shaykhna is it allowed for me because we live in the west and I've seen it myself I've worked here in the west and I see people ask for toilet breaks people ask for cigarette breaks and it's only you know 2-3-4 minutes if someone has will do can you go to his boss and say I'm just going for a cigarette quickly go pray and come back is this allowed is this acceptable in the west you know it is better for them to be honest with their managers directors and so for the colleagues that work that I am a Muslim you are a Muslim I mean you can't hide your identity you know and we have to be proud that you're Muslims and believers الحمد لله we have this purity in Islam we have this great prophet we have this great book of Allah and we have great progeny of the prophet we have to be proud and speak out even if there are issues within the phobia against the religion and against those who represent the religion but we have to try to show the good side of Islam the positive side which is all positive we don't have any negative side of Islam unless those who are extremists would bring this negativity in Islam so we try to be honest with them and tell them this and we have you know 5-10 minutes of prayer and won't actually contradict and conflict with my work I'll go somewhere in the corner and pray in 5-10 minutes and that's it and the majority would accept you know the majority I know that they would appreciate and respect أسان تشخ is it possible or do we actually have an excuse to miss the fajr prayer the morning prayer maybe I've got a a job interview early in the morning maybe I'm quite stressed out I've got an exam maybe I'm ill I'm tired I've had an exhausting week are these excuses for me to extend my sleep and not to get up for Fajr Salah well it is absolutely not allowed to use these excuses and miss your morning prayer there's no way and it becomes obligatory and wajib for you if you think that the alarm clock can actually wake you up then you have to use it or if somebody you would advise to you know shake you and wake you up then you have to do so you must make sure that you have the means of waking you up so you cannot just miss it and say well I've got work tomorrow or exam and so forth you have to make sure that you can and you have the means that wakes you up to perform this to work on Salah in the morning I've sent you I've got a question that I've been sent in here and it's from a brother he says that his employer is quite difficult with him doesn't really allow him to pray doesn't give him the means or the facilities to pray maybe he says to him you can pray later at your own house this is work this is not a mosque what can a مقالف do in a situation like this where his employer makes it difficult and does not allow for him to pray Salah at the office well a piece of work well if it is not possible for that employee to perform the Salah in the office hours at his work then it becomes واجب and obligatory for that person for that employee for that staff to actually go and change his job okay so he should leave his job exactly to find another job that they allow him to pray freely you know without any obstacles and issues to to be considered for his belief in the religion and Allah SWT will sustain that person will give him the رزق will give him more bounties and graces due to changing his job for the cause of Allah because the whole aim and objective was to please Allah SWT and not to please the employer and the manager so pleasing Allah is the foremost is the prior then pleasing a person who Allah created I sent شخنة I get this excuse so lot well I've heard this excuse that's how I get it I've heard this excuse so lot that there is a brother we see him in the mosque we see him at the Majlis of Abaa Abdullah yeah and why don't you pray Salah you know I've got a lot of sins on my you know my shoulders I'm not that much of a practicing Muslim I do full on and full on and you know haram acts prayers not for me my prayers won't be accepted are these actually valid excuses for someone not to pray Salah well one of the great sins if the one is hopeless and says that well because I did such and such bad acts and sins then I won't pray anymore that hopeless is greater than him of being hopeless in that state than doing the sin he's actually committing a bigger sin than other sins that he does so there's no excuse for him as well if he thinks that well if I do this bad act then there's no point of praying no the Quran is clear about this issue it says اسمنا رحمن الرحيم إن الصلاة تنهى عن الفحشاء الله says in the Quran that praying the act of performing the prayer would refrain the one from doing wrong doings and bad deeds so it actually prevents you provides a shield to prevent the the believer and the believer to commit the sins so if that brother would come back and begins his prayers gradually after months and years he will find out that many of his sins that he did and committed are eradicated and reduced and one day he discovers himself to be a mu'min a believer and not even committing one sin Insha'Allah That's right thank you so much for this delightful discussion and thank you to the viewers for joining us on this discussion if you have any questions in regards to tonight's topic or any other topics please contact us on the details provided Insha'Allah that Sheikh will be to address your questions until next time please please if you pray that you do not neglect your Salah Insha'Allah you will be waking up nice and full of energy to pray for your Salah Insha'Allah until next time السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته