I told him...

I told him: It is our practice that when the Sun disappears from our horizon, the Evening Prayer is prayed, and it is not necessary that we should wait for it to set in other places. And when the dawn breaks, we should pray the Morning Prayer, though the Sun may not have come out in other places.

Because it is incumbent upon the people of all the places that they should offer their Prayers according to dawn and sunset of their horizons.[^4] Imam (a.s.) has described this fact in one more tradition: It is upon you that you should have the foundation of your deeds on your logical East and West. And all this is said on the basis of the earth being spherical. [^1]: Surah Aaraf 7:137 [^2]: Surah Saffaat 37:7 [^3]: Surah Maarij 70:40-41 [^4]: Wasailush Shia, Vol. I, p. 237 Previous…