Prayer with the group or alone on a journey?
You travel with a caravan pressing on before sunset. The decision: pray on time alone by the roadside, or wait to pray in congregation when the train halts? Prayer is due either way, but which comes first: the hour or the company?
The positions
the on-time party
prayer is timed; the hour that passes never returns
The evidence
they prayed where the hour found them, even on sand
Sources: practice/salahevent/hijra
the congregation party
the congregation prays, teaches and binds the train together
The evidence
they preferred to wait so the people would gather on one prayer
Sources: practice/salah
You decide
Which would you have chosen on your long journey? Write your reason.
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