Missed and Made Up Prayers
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Is there a statement from any scholar that exempts someone who started praying late in life from making up missed prayers, based on the saying, "Islam obliterates what came before it"?
What is the ruling regarding past missed prayers that were not made up, and must they be made up after sincere repentance and current commitment to prayer?
What is the number of prayers that must be made up after repentance from masturbation that continued for years without ghusl (ritual bathing) thereafter? Is there a sin incurred for defiling a place because of that? Is prayer invalidated by movement or sound to ward off thoughts, or by the presence of foul-smelling secretions? Is it necessary to change the bedding if traces of madhy (pre-seminal fluid) are found after istinja (cleaning oneself after urinating or defecating)?
What is the ruling on combining three obligatory prayers (Dhuhr, Asr, and Maghrib) at one time when unable to perform them at their prescribed times, and in what order should they be performed, or is it permissible to make them up the following day, each at its time after the present prayer?
What is the ruling on combining the intentions of making up for Qiyam al-Layl and Duha prayer at the same time?
What should a wife do if she thought her period had started because she saw a little blood, so she stopped praying, then the blood stopped, so she performed ablution and prayed, and this happened to her repeatedly? And is what she did correct?
What is the ruling on prayers in which one laughed without a sound or with a breath-like sound, and it is not known whether two letters appeared or not? And must they be made up, given that their number and type are not remembered? And what is the ruling on one who laughed during the prostration of forgetfulness after the taslim?
What is the solution to the problem of very heavy sleep, reaching 18 hours, which causes missing prayers, and does this entail sin?
What is the ruling of Islamic law regarding praying immediately after the Adhan, following the Imam in making the Taslim both in movement and voice, and congregational Tasbih after the prayer, where one person says "Subhan Allah" and the congregants respond 33 times, and likewise "Alhamdulillah" and "Allahu Akbar," and then the Imam recites some verses from the Qur'an? And should someone who missed the congregation for Maghrib or Isha pray silently?
Is it commendable to waive a right for a driver who made a mistake only if he prays, and will the one who waives his right not be rewarded if the driver abandons prayer?
Does the intention need to be renewed for each prayer when combining them, and is the prayer valid if the intention was not made immediately before the opening Takbir?
What is the ruling on the fast of a thirteen-year-old child who masturbated during the day in Ramadan out of ignorance that this invalidates the fast, and what is the ruling on his prayers after three years of masturbation if he did not know that it necessitates ghusl?
Is it permissible for someone who missed the Maghrib and 'Isha prayers from the previous day to combine and shorten them behind a congregation performing the current prayer on a ship?
What is the ruling on making up missed prayers for a period of two years at a rate of one day for each day, and is it permissible to perform the regular Sunnah prayers, Qiyam al-Layl, and Duha with the make-up prayers, or should all time be dedicated to making up the prayers? Is it permissible to interrupt making up the prayers due to busyness, and what are the implications for a deceased person who had make-up prayers due with the intention of making them up?
Is it kufr for someone who prays, yet has missed some prayers (for a year or a short period), if he resolves not to make them up, despite the existence of another fatwa stating that making them up is optional and there is no proof for it?
What is the ruling on one who abandons prayer for multiple days out of laziness, and is that considered disbelief (kufr)? How does one repent and atone? And is it obligatory to make up the missed prayers?
What is required of him if a man ignorant of the ruling enters and participates in a congregational prostration (sajdah) in the first rak'ah, then salaams with the worshippers?
What is the meaning of waking up from sleep and supplicating without remembering the exact wording of the supplication, after a period of distance from God, followed by repentance and a return to obedience and memorizing the Qur’an?
What is the ruling on praying Fajr after the appearance of sunlight but before sunrise, knowing that the specified time for sunrise is 6:44 AM, and based on the hadith: "Whoever has not prayed the two rak'ahs of Fajr, let him pray them after the sun has risen"?
Is it recommended to stop glorifying God (tasbih) after the obligatory prayer and join the loud congregational glorification (tasbih) after the supererogatory post-prayer (Sunnah ba'diyah) in a country that adheres to the Hanafi madhhab, in order to avoid disturbing the supererogatory prayer?
What is the ruling on making up missed prayers, and is it permissible to compensate for them by performing extra supererogatory prayers? And what is the number of rak'ahs required to make up, for example, the Fajr prayer?
What is the ruling on delaying the re-performance of missed prayers that were completed without purity due to obsessive-compulsive disorder, and is it permissible to re-perform them in batches on the following day while performing the new day's prayers on time?
Are the good deeds performed prior to abstaining from prayer for several months or a year nullified, or do they remain valid after repentance?
What is the ruling on the fasting of one who used to fast Ramadan without prayer, and who would not perform ghusl from janabah until the Dhuhr prayer? Is he required to make up those fasts? What is the ruling on his fasting if he felt thirsty and drank after returning from the Moroccan bath? And what should he do about the days he missed fasting due to illness, the number of which he no longer knows?