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Is it permissible to interrupt prayer if a siren sounds for an accident?

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It is permissible to interrupt prayer in cases of necessity, such as saving an unaware person from certain destruction, like warning someone about a snake or a blind person from falling into a well. However, if the matter is simple and can be remedied, it is not permissible to interrupt the prayer.

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