Is one who forgot a prayer while committing a forbidden act inexcusable and sinful? And does this include habitual offenders and others? And does this imply that one who was preoccupied with a reprehensible amusement and consequently fell into forbidden acts by mistake or forgetfulness is sinful?
Shafi'i jurists are of the view that forgetting the prayer due to preoccupation with something disliked (makrooh) or unlawful () does not excuse the person, and it renders them a fasiq (transgressor), especially if it recurs, as this indicates disrespect. This may even include preoccupation with permissible () things if they distract from prayer. If a person has experienced that a certain act causes them to forget and they return to it, it is as if they intentionally missed the prayer. Some of them hold that the ruling of fisq and the rejection of testimony is based on the repetition of such an act, while others maintain that one becomes a fasiq even if it does not recur.
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