Re: Want to pray 3 times a day? Well here's a fatwa!!!
^right. even though I dont believe it even has to be a "necessity" in order to combine the namaz.
codey bhai jaan, the "only" IMO is indicating scarcity or lessness. The meaning you are reading would come from the sentence "Turkish Muslims will only be allowed to pray three times a day".
As for the sunni understanding of things, I am yet to meet a sunni in person who actually knows that they can combine prayers even under hardship (even though theres many sahih ahadith showing the Prophet or sahaba combining prayers do not indicate a specific hardship). Infact I recently had this discussion with a sunni friend who was having difficulty offering ishaa (since it was so late, around 12ish) and was rebelling against his family by reading it earlier.
Doesnt seem unreasonable to me for your friend to read it earlier... Would his family perfer he not read it all? Seems the former is a far lesser evil, assuming its an evil to begin with...
And its ridiculous that people would simply assume that Turks will no longer be allowed to pray five times...
That seems to be more an expression of people bias towards secular turkey then anything else.
I know some Shias combine their prayers out of necessity, doesnt seem to bother them...