أعوذُ بِٱللَّهِ مِنَ ٱلشَّيۡطَٰنِ ٱلرَّجِيمِ
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
إِنَّ الصَّلَاةَ كَانَتْ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ كِتَابًا مَوْقُوتًا
Muslims have 5 obligatory prayers that they must pray unless in certain conditions and those are mentioned in other articles.
The topic of this page is prayer timings. As different mind thinks differently and process the information differently, so sometimes they come to different conclusions. Same way about the prayer timings that though the same information is available but in certain cases difference of opinion occurs. Since the time of Companions and continuing with Pious predecessors until now in certain cases the difference of opinion remained.
Another layer has been added in modern time because of calculated prayer timings. It is not easy to witness sun rise and setting due to pollution, rise of buildings and other geographical constraints to ascertain the timing of prayers.
Though I am not an expert on the subject but I have included as much information from basic to advanced level and at some point I will also provide my conclusion also once I will complete research on the subject.
Important Links
You can watch the videos before going through the following links.
Easy to understand how do we calculate the prayer times are calculated.
Frequently Asked Question and Answered about Prayer Timings.
Formula to calculate prayer times.
Understanding of Fajr And Isha Prayer Timings (543KB).
That is how the debate looks like in west around the prayer timing.
More Question Answers, only if you have extra time.