What the present tense brings may be similar to what the past tense brought in form, not in reality, just as the afternoon prayer in the present tense is similar to the noon prayer, which was in the past time in all its circumstances, even as if it were the same. It is known that the ruling of the afternoon is not the ruling of noon until If we saw a person who performed the prayers at their appointed times and it happened that he forgot the noon prayer or fell asleep until the time for the afternoon prayer came, and we saw him praying four times the noon prayer at that time, and we think that he is praying the afternoon prayer due to the great similarity between them, and this is not the case.