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?
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.
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