Is failing to perform the 'Isha prayer and returning home at 12:30 AM considered a deliberate abandonment of prayer, such that its perpetrator is deemed an apostate based on the view of jurists who consider the one who abandons prayer to be an unbeliever?
Source: FtawySummary from Ftawy's records · added here Sep 2, 2026
The time for Isha prayer extends from the disappearance of the twilight until the appearance of dawn, and one must be diligent in performing it before midnight.
Summary from Ftawy's records · added here
Reviewed by El Fatwa's sharia committee.
Read the full answer on Ftawyhttps://ftawy.com/en/questions/51086
Where this answer came from
- Source platform
- Ftawy
- Original fatwa ID
- 51086
- Added here
- . This is when the answer was added to El Fatwa, not the fatwa's date.
- Text
- Summary from Ftawy's records, reviewed by El Fatwa's sharia committee.
- Read the full ruling
- Read the full answer on Ftawy