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Mohamad Mostafa Nassar
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Question:
The Quran instructs us to offer prayer five times a day, and where
Answer:
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
In this fatwa:
The number of prayers are not mentioned in the Quran, but they are mentioned in the hadiths of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).
In the Quran, Allah, Most High, has given us some specific times of prayers, but He did not mention the number. It is not said anywhere in the Qurโan that one must pray five times or three times.
The Quran mentions that the prayer is prescribed for the believers at specific times (An-Nisaaโ 4:103).
Allah says,
{Establish regular prayers at the sunโs decline till the darkness of the night, and (the recital of) the Quran at dawn. Lo! (the recital of) the Quran at dawn is ever witnessed. And some part of the night awake for it, a largess for thee. It may be that thy Lord will raise thee to a praised estate.} (Al-Israaโ 17:78-79)
The time of โthe sunโs declineโ (duluk ash-shams) is interpreted as Zhuhr, Asr and Maghrib. The โdarkness of the nightโ (ghasaq al-layl) is interpreted as Isha prayer. And โthe recital of the Quran at dawn โ (Qurโan al-fajr) is Fajr prayer.
Allah also says,
{Therefore be patient with what they say, and celebrate (constantly) the praises of thy Lord, before the rising of the sun, and before its setting; yea, celebrate them for part of the hours of the night, and at the sides of the day: that thou mayest have (spiritual) joy.} (Taha 20:130)
{So (give) glory to Allah, when you reach eventide and when you rise in the morning. Yea, to Him be praise, in the heavens and on earth; and in the late afternoon and when the day begins to decline.} (Ar-Rum 30:17-18)
The number of prayers are not mentioned in the Quran, but they are mentioned in the hadiths of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).
The Prophet under the guidance of Allah told us when to pray, how many times to pray and how to pray. He gave us five times of prayers. He told us that Allah has prescribed for us five prayers every day.
There are hundreds of hadiths on this subject. The whole Ummah is unanimous and has a consensus (ijma) that five prayers are obligatory.
Anyone who denies this, or says that the obligatory prayers are less than five or more than five, that person is not a Muslim.
Almighty Allah knows best.
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