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| Fatwa ID: | 77096 |
| Title: | Making up the day's prayers when I get home & What's the latest I can put off the Isha? |
| Category: | Prayer |
| Scholar: | Dr. Main Khalid Al-Qudah |
| Date: | 12/12/2008 |
Assalaam alaikum wa rahmatAllah wa barakatuh,
1. Due to my class schedule (or sometimes I'll be going somewhere else), many times I spend hours outside of my home, and so I don't pray until I get home. Usually, I miss two or three prayers, but sometimes, like today, I was in college all day before zuhur prayer and came home after isha prayer. I don't pray at college, because there is no room for that. One of my friends prays in the corner of the hallway, but I cannot do that. I've seen students, both women and men, looking at her, and I don't like to pray, do ruku' and sujood, up and down, and have people looking at me. I don't feel that's right, and that would be inconvenient to me. So, when I get home at night, I pray all the prayers I missed. Is that right or wrong?
2. My other question is that today I was sick, so when I got home I took some medicine and waited a few hours until I got better. Then I prayed the prayers I had missed when I was out.
3. Do we have until 12:00am (midnight) or until before fajr prayer to pray isha, on days when we cannot pray on time due to illness or for other reasons?
Jazakum Allah khair.
Delaying all of the prayers until evening and making that a habit which is done on a daily basis is prohibited in your case! You need to work this issue out one way or another, as soon as possible. Using any of the college's offices would be a solution, or you could ask for a musalla (prayer room) or a chapel. If none of these solutions are feasible, then you need to pray anywhere, even if you would be seen by others! You may combine Dhuhr with Asr or Maghrib with Isha once in a while, when there is a dire need for that, but otherwise, it is prohibited to delay one prayer until the time for the next one.
The latest the Isha prayer can be delayed is midnight. In other words, if the time for Isha is 8pm and Fajr is at 6am, this means that the duration of the night is 10 hours. Midnight in this example would be at 1am - five hours after the adhan of the Isha.
