What is the ruling on the prayer of one who is afflicted with a severe headache that prevents him from prostrating, and he prays by gesturing?
There is no harm for a sick person who is unable to prostrate to gesture [for it]. The gesture for prostration must be lower than the gesture for bowing.
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