Muslims praying at College

How does it disrupt other people's learning. It's not like I'm going to be worshipping them. I'd go to a room and pray.



Which country is that? Indeed, Muslims have a lot of problems here.

Uhm no im not a Muslim as i said my parents are , im an agnostic and i dont mind people praying at college it should be allowed but im saying people should not be allowed to skip or come late to classes because of praying.

It's more to do with you walking in and out of lessons. Some teachers may feel obliged to repeat what they have said because you left the classroom, or if the teacher is in the middle of speaking and you just walk in and then have to take off your coat, unpack all your things etc. it is a distraction. Exactly why my college had the 5 mins rule .

Just use the prayer room at break time or lunch time or whenever you're not needed in class. You can still pray without being late for lessons. Prayers are flexible, they don't have to start at an exact time.

How long does prayer take exactly? Can't you ask to go to the toilet or something?

Ah yes, that makes perfect sense. I'm glad that my class is all Muslim, no non Muslims what so ever!

Infact, my College is highly populated with Muslims!

Why are you bitching and crying then? Before you criticise my college has a high muslim population too but people dont up and leave during class, they pray during their free time. If you dont like it then what are you doing there? "When in Rome..."

In 10 years we won't have England, we'll have MUSLIMland.

Well I'm at uni and asr was between 2:09 and 3:57 and I had a lesson between 2 and 4, so I asked my teacher if I could have a 15 minute break inbetween the lessons and she asked "do you need to pray? that's fine". So yeah, no problem really, just explain to the teacher that you really have to pray, its not an option.

Allah (swt) comes first. So if praying means I'll get into trouble, so be it. I'd rather get into trouble with the people than get into trouble with Allah (swt). Salaams.

Assalamu Alaykum,

Dhuhur is fine. However, Asr, is at like 3pm now (the ideal time - start). I finish college at around 4.15pm most times and Maghrib is at like 4pm.

Just use the prayer room at break time or lunch time or whenever you're not needed in class. You can still pray without being late for lessons. Prayers are flexible, they don't have to start at an exact time.

If the college won't let you miss some lessons to do this then there's nothing you can do but if you have any nice teachers then plead them and they may allow you.

But where will you do your wudhu. If your not pure then your prayer is not excepted. And keeping the same wudhu for long periods of time is not ideal.

And by the way Asr is NOT at 3pm now but starts at about 1:40. That is the ideal time. If your praying Asr at 3pm when you don't have school then that's a serious problem. At least you know this now.

Hi,

We've been given a prayer room but are not allowed to pray in it? The College says that it's a national rule that you cannot be late for lessons because of prayer or leave lessons for prayer.

Do you think Muslims should be allowed to pray and folllow their religion or not?

I've been taught to pray as soon as the prayer starts. For example, Maghrib, at sunset. It's best to pray right at the beginning rather than leaving it towards the end where it may become Makrooh.



Five minutes minimum! I will do the toilet thing.

Well, you can just pray in the breaks tbh. And you should not be missing lessons, you can pray Zuhr and Asr together at lunch or whenever you're free during that time. The fact that you have a room to pray in is more than enough. What if lots of people decided they wanted to pray and be late?? It would be disrupting. I go to Uni and never have I had to miss a lecture to pray. The prayer can be made-up after, the lecture can not (and if you wanna pray that badly at uni, just sit at the end and slip out the lecture theater, pray at the nearest spot and come back)