Missed and Made Up Prayers
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How can one make up missed prayers whose number is unknown due to performing ablution while having nullifying discharges or being uncertain about the end of the menstrual period? Is it sufficient to perform Sunnah and supererogatory prayers in their stead, or must they be estimated and made up? If making them up is obligatory, must each missed prayer be made up with a corresponding present prayer, and must the making up be continuous?
What is the ruling on missed prayers (Asr, Maghrib, Isha, and Fajr) due to the assumption that menstruation had begun, and must they be made up consecutively?
Must the prayer be made up if menstruation continued for 14 days, of which 6 days wereSpotting (Kudrah) and 8 days were blood, given that the usual duration of her period is 6 or 7 days?
A person suffering from bipolar affective disorder experiences insomnia and requires sleeping pills. He is compelled to take the pills at 1:00 PM, which causes him to sleep until 9:00 PM, consequently missing the Asr and Maghrib prayers. If he is awakened for prayer, he cannot fall back asleep, which affects his university studies. He asks whether it is permissible for him to sleep until after the Isha prayer and then make up the missed prayers.
Are the first days of light bleeding considered menstruation, and is it obligatory to make up the prayers missed during them, and how are they to be made up, especially before performing Umrah?
Is the questioner sinful and is expiation obligatory for her for uncovering her face before the doctor and nurses due to the necessity of treatment, and is she obligated to make up the days she did not pray due to the surgery and then menstruation, considering her delay in performing ghusl after menstruation?
Should missed prayers from a period of ignorance be made up, and how are they to be made up?
Does the repentance of someone who stopped praying for nine years and watched pornography, then repented but returned to her negligence in prayer, get accepted? And must she make up the missed prayers, and how can she steadfastly maintain her prayers?
Will the two rak'ahs of supererogatory prayer in the Sacred Mosque compensate for the deficiency of prayers on the Day of Resurrection, knowing that they do not suffice for 200,000 rak'ahs in other prayers?
What is the ruling on making up missed prayers whose number is unknown, and is it permissible to make them up with the supererogatory prayers?
Is it obligatory to make up two Ramadans for someone who abandoned prayer during them after puberty, knowing that fasting is not accepted without prayer, then repented and returned to prayer?
Is it obligatory to make up missed prayers, and is expiation due for numerous oaths broken during a period of not observing prayer?
Is one's responsibility discharged and the make-up of prayers waived if it is highly probable that there are no missed prayers?
How is a latecomer to the prayer to catch up on it in all its situations?
What is the ruling on one who prays the prescribed prayers with the intention of making them up (qaḍāʾ) so as to remove doubt and whisperings (waswas) and to be certain that their obligation has been fulfilled, and are they sinful if their obligation was already fulfilled yet they prayed with the intention of making them up?
What is the ruling on the prayer of one who intended performance, then during it spoke to himself about changing it to a missed (qada') prayer, then settled on the intention of performance, knowing that he suffers from severe intrusive thoughts (waswas) regarding the intention in prayer and ablution?
How can a student combine prayers whose times are missed due to his studies and the distance of his institute from his home?
How can one make up for what was missed of the Sharia knowledge that was studied in school without understanding or application? And will a person be held accountable for what they learned but did not apply, despite being compelled to go to school?
How many rak'ahs are Tarawih and Tahajjud prayers, and which is better, in the mosque or at home? Is it permissible to read from the Mus'haf during them? And how were they prayed during the time of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and his Companions?
Must a traveler who intended to stay two months in a certain country re-perform the prayers that he combined and shortened during that period after learning that he is not permitted to combine them?
Is one who swore not to return to masturbation, but then returned to it, considered an infidel (kāfir) in the sight of Allah, despite his adherence to obligatory prayers and acts of worship? Do its physical and psychological effects disappear? And is his repentance accepted?
Is it obligatory to make up the missed prayers after discovering that the blood that continued for three days after the period was from a wound and not menstruation, and what should someone do who does not remember the exact number of missed prayers?
Must one make up prayers missed over two years due to obsessive-compulsive disorder, and is expiation required of him?
Is it permissible to adopt the view of Ibn Taymiyyah that there is no obligation to make up missed prayers, due to ignorance of the necessity of ghusl after masturbation or not maintaining prayer at the beginning of puberty, especially with the onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder and the fear of a nervous breakdown?