Question
A scholar says that to combine two Salaats (Zuhr and Asr/Maghrib and Isha) will be permissible for those who fear that they will miss any Salaat when they go to watch the world cup matches.
Answer
Indeed Qiyaamah cannot be too far off. When Salaat is being made subservient to fisq and fujoor – to an event of vice and immorality, then we can state with confidence that the following Ahaadith are fully applicable:
* Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said that of his Ummah 999 from every thousand will enter Jahannum.
* Hadhrat Abdullah Ibn Umar (radhiyallahu anhu) said that there will dawn an age when people will congregate in the Musaajid and perform Salaat but not a single one of the musallis will be a Mu'min.
The fellow who answered the satanic question by digging out permissibility for combining Salaat for a haraam purpose and without the essential conditions for validity, is an absolute jaahil or a member of the Ulama-e-Soo' who treacherously betrays Allah Ta'ala, the Rasool (sallallahu alayhi wasallam), the Ummah and Islam. How can a learned man with healthy Imaan ever condone a concession for people whose sole purpose for availing themselves of the concession is the perpetration of vile acts of haraam? Combining Salaat is not permissible at all according to the Hanafi Math-hab even on a journey. Those who had availed themselves of the jaahil's 'fatwa' should make qadha of the Salaat.
While according to other Math-habs combining of Salaat is permissible in certain cases, the 'learned men' of the other Math-habs who legalize it for the haraam games are members of the fraternity of evil ulama. In the circumstances Jama' Bainas Salaatain (combining two Salaat) is not permissible according to all Four Math-habs.
- Source
- themajlis.co.za
- Published in
- The Majlis Vol 20 No 02
- PDF page
- 6
Appears under HARAAM SPORT AND SALAAT (approximate).