The mourning commemorations are sometimes continuous on the 9th and 10th of Muharram and may overlap with the commencement of prayer times. Is it necessary to pause the commemorations and perform prayer or is it permissible to delay the prayer and continue the commemorations? Furthermore, what is the ruling on conducting business, working, opening commercial shops, and not taking the day off on the 9th and 10th of Muharram?
It is better to perform the prayer at the beginning of its time, and it is very important to organize the mourning commemorations in a way that does not interfere with prayer. As for doing business and opening shops during these two sad days, it must be avoided if it is considered a form of indifference to what happened to the Ahl al-Bayt (p).