Missed and Made Up Prayers
- If someone intentionally missed Fajr prayer and then repented, must he make up the prayers that followed it in their proper sequence, or only Fajr? And what if this recurred for years?
- Is it permissible to adopt Ibn Hazm's view regarding not making up intentionally missed prayers due to hardship and scrupulosity, while simultaneously adhering to the majority's view that abandoning prayer does not constitute disbelief?
- What should a latecomer recite in a loud or silent prayer if he does not know whether he is in the first or last rak'ahs?
- What is the ruling for someone who remembers or doubts a deficit in the number of Rak'ahs during the first Taslim?
- Is the Fajr prayer, in which the obligatory (fard) part was performed before the sunnah, unacceptable, knowing that the intention was to perform the obligatory part first?
- Should prayers performed with an incorrect Tayammum be made up?
- Is it permissible to make up missed prayers or perform current prayers by gesturing during prostration, due to involuntary gas expulsion at the time of prostration and after repeatedly performing ablution and attempting to get rid of the gases?
- What is the ruling on the prayer of one who intended to complete the rak'ah with the Imam after the Imam's prostration of forgetfulness, and of one who intended to complete it individually?
- What is the solution for a wife who does not observe prayers on time, sleeps all day, neglects her husband in bed, and refuses to apologize, despite holding a degree in Islamic studies?
- What are the consequences of abandoning prayer and masturbating for years, and is it necessary to make up missed prayers after repentance?
- Is it obligatory to repeat the prayers after discovering dried semen on the body after performing ghusl, and does dried semen prevent water from reaching the body during wudu and ghusl?
- What is legally more appropriate for getting rid of the harm caused by disobedient people and increasing the performance of missed prayers: only performing the missed prayers, or performing them along with emigration at the same time, knowing that emigration might increase the overall performance of missed prayers, but it might temporarily conflict with dedicating oneself to them at first? Is emigration permissible with prayer for any other reason?
- Is my prayer valid if I catch up with the Imam as he rises from the Tashahhud, and before I complete it, then I return to complete it, knowing that what I missed from the Tashahhud was "His slave and Messenger"?
- What is the ruling on unintentionally forgetting the Maghrib and Isha prayers on one's wedding day, and is expiation due for them?
- When does prayer become obligatory for a young man who began masturbating before puberty and experienced a late nocturnal emission, and must he make up the prayers he missed since he started masturbating or since the age of fifteen?
- If someone missed the Dhuhr prayer, should they pray Dhuhr first, or the Sunnah prayers that precede it, then Dhuhr, then the Sunnah prayers that follow it? And what is the ruling on making up the Dhuhr prayer if its time has expired or not?
- Is it true that one of the Salaf (pious predecessors) used to complete a full recitation of the Qur’an daily for a month as a dowry for a houri, and is it possible to do that to obtain a houri, and have any hadiths been narrated concerning this?
- How does one get rid of obsessive thoughts that plague them concerning creed and the Divine Essence, and that affect their life, despite their commitment to acts of worship, remembrances (adhkar), and ruqyah shar'iyah?
- What is your advice to a person who was accustomed to performing Qiyam al-Layl (night prayer), then abandoned it, then returned to it, then abandoned it again, and now wishes to return to it, but fears that he might abandon it permanently and be deprived of its abundant good? Is this fear of his well-founded, or is it from the whisperings of Satan?
- Must the questioner make up the prayers she missed due to her ignorance of the rulings on purity, and how should they be made up if they are obligatory?
- Should the prayers missed after the fortieth day due to continuous bleeding be made up?
- Does the prayer of one who joins it late become void if he stands up during or before the Imam's Tasleem, according to the Hanafis who consider Tasleem to be a Sunnah?
- How are missed prayers, due to sleep or other reasons, numbering in the sixties or seventies, to be made up, bearing in mind the necessity of maintaining order between the two shared times, and how can their performance be reconciled with the performance of current prayers?
- How can one atone for the sin of abandoning prayer due to laziness, if they started praying at the age of 15 and wish to repent?