i like the idea of putting a pop up reminder indicating prayer time…If the idea is to shut down to remind people. That way, those who need to pray where they are in the right time can do so and others can continue to take advantage of the site!

Good solution.

This merged with Jerry’s idea of adjusting with every visitor’s time zone would do enough.

Including a Hadith mentioning the importance of Praying would do.

you have to BE THERE physically to perform the prayer and since its a simple fact that one cannot be at 2 places at the same time therefore if s/he is alone then the store MIGHT have to be closed cuz there are chances of theft. But with a website, what are the chances of thefts? it is not like when they come back to their chairs they track every single move on the website. Who knows !! lol

Again this is just a personal view I havent heard their reasoning behind this. MAYBE they do have to sit behind the PC every now and then.

But no one has any rights to attack them with the tag of “Extremism”.

Basically I find the idea of a website automatically shutting down for prayer to be a novel invent and interesting use of merging internet technology with religious custom, hence why I chose to post such an article.

So the practice of the Hail website may enhance Saudis image to some and especially those who are muslim and appreciate the reminder that it is time to pray in Hail and others who are not muslim or happen to like reading the Hail online paper from outside of the Kingdom, may view it as a detraction.

I wasnt aware he didnt like to be called Salafi. All of his point and ideas are standard Salafi fare. I would wonder in what ways he differs from the Salafi?

As Tariq Ramadan points out, there are six different sub-divisions within Islam, but I havent seen “Abu Abdallah” deviate from any of them.

The prophet isnt here anymore, so people cannot close their businesses to go pray with the prophet. What we CAN do is to follow his Sunnah and Hadith. In these hadith they make it VERY clear that there are a wide range of times in which people can make prayers.

It is prefered for males to pray in congregation. What does that have to do with everyone being forced to pray at a certain time? Certainly one group of men can pray at one time and another group pray at different times, all within the times specified by the prophet!

At my work we have hundreds of Muslim workers spread in between numerous buildings. Yep, here in the USA. So we have many different groups of Muslims who meet and pray every pray at slightly different times. This is in keeping with the Sunnah.

What would be against the Sunnah and the prophet would be to force everyone to come and pray at a time and place of someone else’s chosing.

So it is VERY clear that men can pray in conregation and every “does what they want”.

You might not be able to follow the Sunnah unless you are forced to do so, but other people do so willingly and on their own.

Just because you cannot follow the deen without being forced do not try to force the rest of us who have no such disability.