That manager refused to let Muslim employees pray outside of regularly scheduled break times and also warned them against using trips to the bathroom to fulfill their need to pray five times a day, the suit contends.
They pray at specific times during the day. The article made no mention that these employees only worked one specific shift.
Salah times - Wikipedia
Five daily prayersEdit
The five daily prayers are obligatory (
fard) and they are performed at times determined essentially by the position of the Sun in the sky. Hence, salah times vary at different locations on the Earth.
FajrEdit
Fajar begins at
subh saadiq -- true dawn or morning twilight, when the morning light appears across the full width of the sky -- and ends at sunrise.
Dhuhr (midday)Edit
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Dhuhr
The Dhuhr prayer starts after the sun passes its
zenith, and lasts almost 20 min (approx) before Asr. It's better to say the salah in between 2 hours after the Azan has been announced from Mosque.
Shia (Jafari madhab) differs regarding end of dhuhr time. Per all major Jafari jusrists, end of dhuhr time is about 10 minutes before sunset, the time that belongs exclusively to asr prayer. Dhuhr and asr time overlaps, apart from first 5 minutes of dhuhr, which is exclusively delegated for it. Asr prayer cannot be offered before dhuhr in the dhuhr time...
Asr (afternoon)Edit
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Asr
The Asr prayer starts when the shadow of an object is the same length as the object itself (or, according to
Hanafi fiqh, twice its length) plus the shadow length at Dhuhr, and lasts till sunset. Asr can be split into two sections; the preferred time is before the sun starts to turn orange, while the time of necessity is from when the sun turns orange until sunset.
Shia (Jafari madhab) differs regarding start of asr time. Per all major Jafari jusrists, start of asr time is about 5 minutes after the time of sun passing through zenith, that time belongs exclusively to dhuhr prayer. Time for dhuhr and asr prayers overlap, but the dhuhr prayer must be offered before asr, except the time about 10 minutes before sunset, which is delegated exclusively to asr. In the case that the mentioned time is reached, asr prayer should be offered first (ada - on time) and dhuhr (kada - make up, late) prayer should be offered after asr.
Maghrib (sunset)Edit
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Maghrib
The Maghrib prayer begins when the sun sets, and lasts till the red light has left the sky in the west.
Isha'a (night)Edit
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Isha'a
The Isha'a prayer starts when the red light is gone from the western sky, and lasts until the rise of the "white light" (fajar sadiq) in the east. The preferred time for Isha'a is before midnight, meaning halfway between sunset and sunrise.
