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""God Most High is worshipped in morning and evening, specifically at sunrise and sunset. When praying, worshippers face the sun (east in the morning and west in the evening), raise their hands high, and sing hymns and offer acclamations to God.""
Interesting!
The Fajr & Maghrib prayers occur prior to daybreak & prior to sunset (respective…
""God Most High is worshipped in morning and evening, specifically at sunrise and sunset. When praying, worshippers face the sun (east in the morning and west in the evening), raise their hands high, and sing hymns and offer acclamations to God.""
Interesting!
The Fajr & Maghrib prayers occur prior to daybreak & prior to sunset (respectively) & both have special supplications since the Lunar "Day" begins at sunset & ends at daybreak.
One of them happen to be: "اللَّهُمَّ أَجِرْنِي مِنَ النَّارِ" (Literally "Oh Allah, Protect me from the Fires of Hell")
Which transliterates to "Allahumma Ajirni Minnan Nar". Relevant Hadith:
>> Al-Harith b. Muslim al-Tamimi quoted his father Muslim b. al-Harith al-Tamimi as saying that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) told him secretly:
When you finish the sunset prayer, say: ‘O Allah, protect me from Hell” seven times; for if you say that and die that night, protection from it would be recorded for you; and when you finish the dawn prayer, say it in a similar way, for if you die that day, protection from it would be recorded for you. Abu Sa’id told me that al-Harith said: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said this to us secretly, so we confine it to our brethren.
Reference: Sunan Abi Dawud 5079<<
Out of curiosity, what do Muslims do when they (due to work) they cannot complete their prayer at the appoint time. For instance, imagine you're a traffic cop working the 4AM to 8AM shift. When dawn hits at 6AM, you cannot stop to pray. Does he "make up for it" by praying as soon as possible, e.g. at 8AM? Wait until the next prayer cycle?
Also, The prayer cycles have time slots to them. So Fajr (i.e. the Dawn prayer) in most parts of the world would have a 2 hour window.
Finding 3-5 mins within the 2 hours is quite doable.
The tricky one (especially in northern climates) would be Maghrib (i.e. the evening prayer) since it may have a 30-40 minute window max. Finding 7-10 minutes for Maghrib is a bit trickier since you are dealing with such a small window.
He would make it up asap. That being said:
Fajr (the Dawn prayer) would take 3-5 minutes maximum if executed properly (it is the shortest prayer). So you take a "washroom break", perform ritual ablution (i.e. "wudhu") and then pray. Should be doable for most professions.