Sharh Riyad as-Saliheen by Ibn Uthaymeen — Volume 1 (شرح رياض الصالحين) — Page 351

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هَذَا لَيْسَ بِعِبْرَةٍ، بَلِ الْعِبْرَةُ أَنَّكَ تَنْظُرُ إِلَى الظِّلِّ مَا دَامَ يَنْقُصُ فَالشَّمْسُ لَمْ تَزُلْ، فَإِذَا بَدَأَ يَزِيدُ أَدْنَى زِيَادَةٍ فَإِنَّ الشَّمْسَ قَدْ زَالَتْ فَاجْعَلْ عَلَامَةً عَلَى ابْتِدَاءِ زِيَادَةِ الظِّلِّ، فَإِذَا صَارَ ظِلُّ الشَّيْءِ كَطُولِهِ خَرَجَ وَقْتُ الظُّهْرِ وَدَخَلَ وَقْتُ الْعَصْرِ. ٣-

The point here is not the shadow itself, but rather that you watch it as it shrinks; as long as it decreases, the sun has not yet passed its meridian. The moment it begins to grow, even slightly, the sun has passed. Mark the point where the shadow starts to lengthen. When the shadow of an object equals its own length, the time for Dhuhr has ended and the time for Asr has begun.

وَقْتُ الْعَصْرِ إِلَى أَنْ تَصْفَرَّ الشَّمْسُ وَالضَّرُورَةُ إِلَى غُرُوبِهَا. ٤-

3. The time for Asr lasts until the sun turns yellow, with the time of necessity extending until sunset.

وَوَقْتُ الْمَغْرِبِ مِنْ غُرُوبِ الشَّمْسِ إِلَى مَغِيبِ الشَّفَقِ الْأَحْمَرِ، وَهُوَ يَخْتَلِفُ، أَحْيَانًا يَكُونُ بَيْنَ الْغُرُوبِ وَبَيْنَ مَغِيبِ الشَّفَقِ سَاعَةٌ وَرُبْعٌ، وَأَحْيَانًا يَكُونُ سَاعَةً وَاثْنَتَيْنِ وَثَلَاثِينَ دَقِيقَةً؛ وَلِذَلِكَ وَقْتُ الْعِشَاءِ عِنْدَ النَّاسِ الْآنَ لَا بَأْسَ بِهِ، وَاحِدَةٌ وَنِصْفٌ (١.٣٠) غُرُوبِيٌّ. ٥-

4. The time for Maghrib runs from sunset until the red twilight fades. This duration varies; sometimes there is an hour and fifteen minutes between sunset and the disappearance of the twilight, and other times it is an hour and thirty-two minutes. Consequently, the current practice of setting Isha at one hour and thirty minutes after sunset is acceptable.

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Vocabulary · المفردات (23 verbs · 46 nouns)

• نَظَرَ — to look
• دَامَ — to last
• نَقَصَ — to decrease
• عِبْرَة — lesson
• ظِلّ — shadow
• شَمْس — sun