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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books All Solutions are with the Prophet’s Progeny This is the prayer The prayers in the school of the Ahlul Bayt (a.s.), are offered in three times instead of five times: • One time for the Fajr (dawn) Prayer • One time for the Dhuhr (midday) and Asr (afternoon) Prayers • One time for the Maghrib (time of sunset) and Isha’ (evening) Prayers We have written a separate chapter in our book “ To be with the Truthful ” to prove the legality of these three times from the Holy Qur'an and the pure Prophet’s Sunna; therefore, we do not want to expatiate or repeat what we have already said.

Let whoever wants to see the details refer to that book. Anyhow, we want here to explain the wisdom of Allah in gathering between the times of the prayers in this way. As we have said in a previous chapter – (the Ahlul Bayt and modern Muslims) most of whom are employees who form three thirds of a society, do not offer the prayer or offer it lazily and unwillingly, or offer it with difficulty and hardship.

This is because they know that it is not permissible for them (in the view of religion) to leave the work during the time of work, for which they receive wages, in order to offer their prayer. We have nothing to do with those, who cry out in the mosques calling people to leave their jobs at the times of prayers even if it costs them to lose their jobs, because Allah - as they claim - is the One Who provides His servants with sustenance, and not the employer or the owner of the factory.

What is odd is that these very imams, who bear this thought, contradict themselves in the same subject. Once, I heard one of them praising Umar ibn al-Khattab and saying, “One day, our master Umar came into the mosque and saw some man offer the prayer before the coming of people. The second time, he came and found him offering the prayer. In the third, he (Umar) asked him (the man), “Who spends on you?” The man said, “My brother spends on me.” Our master Umar said to him, “Get out of the mosque!

Surely, your brother is better than you are. The sky does not rain gold or silver.” When I was alone with the imam (of the mosque) I, said to him, “Did you not say a month ago, ‘Allah is the One Who provides His servants with sustenance, so leave your work in order to offer the prayer’ ? ” He looked at me with a smile and said, “For every occasion there is a certain saying! My first saying was from the Qur'an, and my second saying was our master Umar al-Farouq’s.