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**gomosopions** · 04-27-2012, 05:30 PM

Asalaamu alaikum,

Please help me as I am worried about missing my Dhuhr prayer during my exam time.

I'm in UK and Dhuhr is at 12.57pm. I have to be in the exam location by 1.15pm (based on the website) although they might not start allowing people in till perhaps 1.20-1.25ish maybe. The nearest mosque I found is about twenty minutes away which obviously won't give me enough time.

My exam is three hours and it ends at 5pm (starts at 2pm but we have to be there 45 min early). I follow the Shafi madhab and Asr is around 5.10pm ish roughly. Again i won't have enough time to pray.

I am feeling really bad about this as it feels really wrong to give priority to a Dunya exam and miss my prayer time. I was thinking maybe I should just take a mussala with me and in the exam location I can just pray? Insha Allah I should get there by 12.50 or 1pm and then before the 45 minute mark which starts at 1.15pm, I could do my Dhuhr prayer.

Has anyone here prayed in public before? I don't quite know how to go about it as there would be so many students there and probably a lot of pointing and whispering I feel. (these are universiy level exams so perhaps some level of maturity may be there regarding such issues).

Can someone please help me? I have contacted the universtiy and they said the only advice they can give me is to file in a claim and defer my exams till July. I have already booked my tickets to go back home and as my exam is starting on the 3rd of May, I have left it really late too. So I don't want to have to delay exams till July. Insha Allah instead I want to try and figure out a way I can do my Dhuhr prayer on time next month.

04-27-2012, 05:30 PM	#1
gomosopions Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 467 Senior Member	Worried about missing Dhuhr - please give advise. Asalaamu alaikum, Please help me as I am worried about missing my Dhuhr prayer during my exam time. I'm in UK and Dhuhr is at 12.57pm. I have to be in the exam location by 1.15pm (based on the website) although they might not start allowing people in till perhaps 1.20-1.25ish maybe. The nearest mosque I found is about twenty minutes away which obviously won't give me enough time. My exam is three hours and it ends at 5pm (starts at 2pm but we have to be there 45 min early). I follow the Shafi madhab and Asr is around 5.10pm ish roughly. Again i won't have enough time to pray. I am feeling really bad about this as it feels really wrong to give priority to a Dunya exam and miss my prayer time. I was thinking maybe I should just take a mussala with me and in the exam location I can just pray? Insha Allah I should get there by 12.50 or 1pm and then before the 45 minute mark which starts at 1.15pm, I could do my Dhuhr prayer. Has anyone here prayed in public before? I don't quite know how to go about it as there would be so many students there and probably a lot of pointing and whispering I feel. (these are universiy level exams so perhaps some level of maturity may be there regarding such issues). Can someone please help me? I have contacted the universtiy and they said the only advice they can give me is to file in a claim and defer my exams till July. I have already booked my tickets to go back home and as my exam is starting on the 3rd of May, I have left it really late too. So I don't want to have to delay exams till July. Insha Allah instead I want to try and figure out a way I can do my Dhuhr prayer on time next month.
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