Forerunner of Sh. Marjani's work «Nazurat al-Haqq» («Review of the truth»)

Abstract

The article provides a brief description of an unpublished handwritten work by Mukhammad-Amin al-Bulgari, devoted to the issue of the obligation to perform a night prayer on short summer nights, when the evening dawn does not disappear until the dawn. The work is a dispute in absentia between the author and an opponent representing the camp of those who believed that the obligatory nature of night prayer on the mentioned days of the year subsides due to the absence of a reason for its obligatory nature, which is the disappearance of twilight. The author refutes the condition put forward by the opponent by the fact that the real reason for the obligation to perform a prayer is that a person receives benefits from Almighty Allah, while physical signs serve as nothing more than a guideline for its performance. Coordinating the hadith about the imamship of Jibril (Gabriel), which explains the times of five prayers, and the hadith of Dajjal (The Antichrist), which refers to the need to determine the conditional time of prayer during the day, which will last a year, the author concludes that the first does not imply a physical sign (disappearance of dawn), but the corresponding period of time.