For the past 20 years, a number of masaa-jid in Lancashire and London (especially Newham)  have  been  following  a  salah timetable  devised  by  Hizbul  Ulama  allegedly based  on  a  series  of  “observations”  (musha-hadah)  in  Blackburn  in  1988.  On  the  basis  of these “observations”, Hizbul Ulama devised a set of times for all masaajid in the UK. 

However,  after  carefully  studying  the  data, senior  muftiyaan-e-kiraam  in  the  UK  and abroad have stated that it is not permissible to follow these times. They have condemned the timetable as unreliable and the result of a lack of  understanding,  expertise  and  experience. Hizbul Ulama’s times are completely different from many observations performed by ulama in the UK and around the world; are inconsist-ent  with  scholarly  consensus  on  the  subject throughout  the  history  of  Islam;  and  further do  not  even  match  Hizbul  Ulama’s  own  “ob-servations”.

In  this  leaflet  we  will  explore  a  few  of  these errors. We will categorically show that Hizbul Ulama’s  timetable  does  not  match  their  own “observations”. These and other inconsisten-cies are not a simple a matter of difference of opinion or ijtihad, but are fundamental errors which render the timetable completely void.

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