What does the Sharia say concerning a sheikh who has reached 86 years of age and contracted Alzheimer's?
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Senility is a deterioration of the mind due to old age, and it is not insanity. Its rulings and the rulings of insanity are the same. The person afflicted with it is not held accountable during the state of senility, and their acts of worship and transactions are not valid. They are prohibited from buying and selling, and they are not to be blamed for their abnormal behaviors.
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