Noor-ul-Idha wa Najatul Arwaah (The light of clarification and the Salvation of Souls)

The times are five:

1) The dawn prayer Fajr begins at true dawn and ends just before sunrise.

2) The time for the noon prayer (Zuhr) begins after the suns zenith at midday and ends when the shadow of all things upright becomes, i) Twice as long or, ii) Equal to the object, with an allowance made for the original shadow at noon. Imam Tahawi opted with the second ruling and it is the saying of the two companions.


3) The time of the mid-afternoon prayer (Asr) begins when the shadow begins to increase on the object it has doubled or equalled, until sunset;

4) The sunset prayer (Maghrib) begins when the sun has completely set and ends when the dominant glow of red from the horizon has disappeared, and the fatwa is in accordance with this.

5) The time of the nightfall prayer (Isha) and Witr prayer begin when the red colour of the horizon disappears from the sky, and ends a little time before true dawn,


The Witr prayer is not to be performed before the Isha prayer due to the sequential order, which is Waajib. If the time of the Isha prayer does not arrive then it is not compulsory to perform them


One is not to join two obligatory prayers in one prayer time even with an excuse unless it be at Arafah for Hajj, with the condition that one performs the prayers with the great Imam and the condition that one is in Ihram. Accordingly, the pilgrim is to join the noon prayer (Zuhr) and mid-afternoon (Asr) prayer together at midday.

They also join the sunset (Maghrib) and nightfall (Isha) prayer in Muzdalifah. The prayer is a delayed joining of prayers.

The sunset prayer (Maghrib) is not permitted to be prayed on the road to Muzdalifah.