Could I just raise one point? The Imam, I think he said you have prayers or you call to prayer five times a day, is that right? Yes, that’s right. How would you sort of conquer that problem where, if you’re in training for example, you’re in classes and studying for most of the day, how would you… But still you can say… How would you fulfill your prayer? How can you eat? And how can you drink? And how can you find time for gossip? Or even for gambling occasionally? It all depends on your attitude.
If you prefer something to the other, you would naturally pay first attention to the performance of that particular act which you relish more. I have been a student here, I didn’t find it difficult at all. During my lunch breaks for instance, I would first say my prayer and I knew there was enough time which you could save from lunch and people generally, the boys, students did. They spent their talking between them and gossiping and things, so instead of that I would first say my prayer and whatever time and enough time was left. Even for a good lunch plus a little talk, but not as much as others did.
I was under the impression that the prayers were at set times. Yes, the set time are not sharply set. I see. You know, yes. Stagnant. There is a lot of cushioning and possibility of shifting prayer from earlier time to the later time. For instance, the Zohar, the prayer about lunch time, this time begins at the moment when the sun begins to decline. You know, from the zenith, as it begins to go down, the prayer time of Zohar, as we call it, begins. And it ends at the Asr time, this is another prayer before sunset.
And it should be, let’s say, the remaining day can be divided into two halves. The first half belongs to the Zohar prayer and the second half before sunset belongs to the second prayer, Asr prayer. So a lot of time in between. You can adjust time to your own convenience.
