The Meccan Revelations

Manuscript volume 7 · Page 169

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Arabic

الزائد.

ومراعاة الأصول أولى، فالدخول مع الإمام في الصلاة، أو عند سماع الإقامة أولى من صلاة ركعتي الفجر، وقد أغلظ في ذٰلك رسول الله[59] صلى الله عليه وسلم، وأظهر الكراهة لمن فعل ذٰلك، وقال لمن صلاهما وصلاة الصبح تقام: «أ تصلي الصبح أربعا؟»، يكرر عليه، كارها منه ذٰلك الفعل.

(كراهة الشروع وحكم العمل بعد الشروع)

وهٰذا هو عين الدليل على جوازها مع الكراهة، فإنه صلى الله عليه وسلم ما أمره أن يقطعها، ولا أن يخرج عنها، فلو فعل محظورا ما أبقاه عليه، فثبت أنه عمل مشروع، لا يبطله من شرع فيه، فإن الله يقول: ﴿ولا تُبْطِلُوا أَعْمالَكُمْ﴾ [محمد: ٣٣]، ولكن لا يعود إليه بعد علمه بأن الشرع يكرهه، وإنما يكره له الشروع فيه.

وصل بل فصل في وقت قضاء ركعتي الفجر

فمن قائل يقضيهما بعد صلاة الصبح، وبه أقول؛ وقال قوم يقضيهما بعد طلوع الشمس، وأصحاب هٰذا القول اختلفوا، فمنهم من جعل لها هٰذا الوقت غير متسع؛

Notes

[59]

(قُرئ «أغلظ» بمقابلة الطبعة الأحدث، في سياق إظهار الكراهة.)

English

an addition?

Giving priority to foundations is preferable. Joining the prayer leader, or joining when the call to begin has sounded, is preferable to praying the two units of the dawn Sunnah. The Messenger of God[59], may God bless him and grant him peace, spoke sternly about this and showed his dislike when someone did it. To someone praying these two units while the dawn prayer was being established he repeatedly said, “Are you praying the dawn prayer as four units?” He disliked the act.

(Disapproval of Beginning and the Ruling on an Act Already Begun)

This very report proves that it is permissible, though reprehensible. He, may God bless him and grant him peace, commanded neither interruption nor departure from it. Had the person done something forbidden, he would never have let him continue. It is therefore established that this is a prescribed act which someone who has begun it should leave intact, for God says, “Do not invalidate your deeds” [Muhammad 47:33]. But he should refrain from doing it again once he knows the Law dislikes it. What is disliked is beginning it.

Continuation, or Rather Section, on When to Make Up the Two Units of the Dawn Sunnah

Some say they are made up after the dawn prayer, which is my position. Others say they are made up after sunrise. Those who hold the latter view disagree. Some make this a narrowly defined time for them,

Notes

[59]

(The reading aghlaẓa, “spoke sternly,” follows the newer edition in the context of showing disapproval.)

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