Missed and Made Up Prayers
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Do the secretions that follow the cessation of postpartum bleeding count as nifas, or is prayer obligatory thereafter, and is it necessary to make up missed prayers when the number of days is unknown?
What is the ruling on a woman making up missed prayers after undergoing surgery, when she was unconscious or in pain, and should she make them up all at once, even if she is unsure of their exact number? And what is the ruling on combining and shortening prayers in the hospital?
What is the ruling on one who prays some of the rak'ahs standing and some of them sitting due to fatigue or knee pain?
Is it obligatory to make up prayers missed since puberty and during a period of irregular prayer, and what should I do if I cannot determine their number?
What is the way to get rid of the numerous intrusive thoughts that come during prayer and at many other times, and which cause a feeling of unease?
Is it Islamically permissible to intentionally delay the two rak'ahs of Fajr (the Sunnah prayer before the obligatory Fajr prayer) until after the Fajr prayer without an excuse, or is that forbidden? And is it permissible to delay them for a minor excuse, such as being occupied with supplication or reviewing what the imam will recite?
Is the intention to make up missed prayers in general, such as "I intend to pray the Dhuhr prayer that I owe" or "I intend to make up Dhuhr," sufficient without specifying the number? Is the prayer valid with this intention, and if it is not valid, what are the implications for the prayers that were made up with this intention?
Is the blood that came down—after taking pills to induce it—scant, and its color dark and light brown, considered menstruation, necessitating ghusl and abstaining from prayer, or not? And must I make up the prayers I missed based on it being considered menstruation?
Must one make up missed prayers due to not knowing that a small amount of discharge from the anus is not excused, especially when suffering from Waswas, and is there a sin for not making them up?
Is the regular bath, for which the intention of ghusl from janabah for prayer was not made, sufficient for it?
What is the ruling on abandoning prayer after the emission of fluid from the anus following a strike to the penis in self-defense, and is it permissible to perform ghusl or tayammum in this situation?
Is it permissible to combine the Asr prayer with the Dhuhr prayer, an early combination, or to make up the Asr prayer directly before Maghrib, if the time of arrival home extends beyond Maghrib prayer and sometimes Isha due to the long distance and public transportation?
Is it permissible for my mother to perform the missed prayers on behalf of my deceased grandfather, and what is permissible to dedicate its reward to the deceased?
Is the Eid prayer and its missed takbeers included in the hadith: "Whoever prays to Allah for forty days, catching the first takbeer, will have two immunities written for him: immunity from Hellfire and immunity from hypocrisy"? And what about someone who missed the seven takbeers in the Eid prayer?
Is it permissible for two congregational prayers to be held at the same time in one mosque, one for Dhuhr and Asr combined and shortened, and the other for Maghrib and Isha combined and shortened?
ما هو الارتفاع المسموح به للقبر بالسنتيمتر، مع مراعاة استوائه في أرض مائلة؟
Is blood discharged from pimples near the anus, or from the skin of the testicles and penis after shaving, considered to have exited from the two natural orifices? And does urine continue to be discharged in drops for a long time after istibra' (purification after urinating)? And is the prayer valid if the worshipper performs ablution immediately after istibra' and istinja' (washing after defecating)? And must one make up the prayers that were recorded first, or the old ones that were forgotten to be recorded, and is delaying prayers considered disbelief? And is Islam accepted after disbelief if some prayers were abandoned and delayed? And are prayers and other acts like reading the Quran, seeking knowledge, and Taraweeh prayer accepted if the worshipper only makes up one or two prayers a day? And is the worshipper rewarded if his prayer is invalid due to previous mistakes or whisperings (waswas)?
What is the ruling on one who abandons prayer under duress, and does that put him outside the fold of Islam, and what is the ruling on the one who compels him to abandon prayer?
How does a worshiper recite behind the Imam in audible prayers, and what should he recite if he joins while the Imam is reciting a Surah after Al-Fatiha, and should he make up what he missed with Al-Fatiha and what is easy from the Quran, or with Al-Fatiha only?
Is it permissible to perform missed prayers after the Witr and Qiyam prayers in the Haram until Fajr?
Is prayer behind an imam who is later found to be possibly insane valid, and how can the imam's suitability for leading prayer be determined?
Is the order followed in performing the Isha prayer, the Qiyam (night prayer), and the Isha Sunnah (supererogatory prayer) correct, given that I intended to pray Isha behind an Imam who was performing Qiyam, then I completed Isha individually, then I caught up with the Imam for two Rakahs of Qiyam, then I completed what I missed of Qiyam individually, then I prayed the Isha Sunnah?
Will Allah forgive the disobedient Muslim servant who repents with sincere repentance for all sins, no matter how great, and pledges never to return to them?
Is it permissible for me to make up many missed prayers by intending to make up the Fajr prayer during the Tarawih prayer behind the Imam, so that I thereby make up four Fajr prayers a day?