Missed and Made Up Prayers
- What are the consequences of being negligent and abandoning prayer, and what is the ruling on one who neglects ritual bathing after sexual defilement (ghusl al-janabah), and is it permissible for a wife to refuse her husband in bed because he neglects prayer and is in a state of ritual impurity (janabah)?
- How can one reconcile the Hadith (When it [the prayer] is sound, all of his deeds are sound, and if it is corrupt, all of his deeds are corrupted) with the Almighty's saying (He [Allah] does not allow to be lost the reward of any who does good), given the possibility that a Muslim's prayer may not be perfect due to life pressures, and does this lead to the loss of all his good deeds and his being equated with a disbeliever?
- What is the ruling if menstrual blood exceeds fifteen days, and there is no regular period, but it is distinguishable as menstrual blood by its thickness and odor?
- What is incumbent upon one who did not make up for the days of breaking the fast in Ramadan and does not remember their number or the date of their beginning, and is it obligatory to make up for missed prayers, or is sincere repentance sufficient?
- Is it obligatory to make up the Maghrib prayer missed due to the lengthy Asr prayer during the time of Isha, or is it combined with the Isha prayer?
- What must I do to compensate for 120 days of prayer missed due to delaying them for studying?
- Must one make up prayers after performing ghusl following a wet dream if one suspects semen has been discharged again and it smells like semen?
- What is the ruling on the prayer of a 26-year-old girl who prays on and off, and does not pray on time, and how can she make up for missed prayers, and how can she maintain prayer and pray it on time?
- Is a woman's embracing of Islam and her marriage religiously valid? And is it permissible for her to combine missed prayers after work due to the difficulty of performing them on time?
- Will a worshiper be rewarded if he prays a supererogatory prayer as a precaution, following the Holy Quran, in light of some scholars' opinion that intentionally missed prayers are not obligatory to make up and are not accepted?
- What is the method for making up prayers missed over years, and is it a condition to specify the day in the intention, and must prayers performed in ignorance of their rulings be made up, and if so, should they be made up before the missed prayers, and is chronological order a condition in making up missed prayers?
- What is the ruling on the prayer of a man who intended to perform the missed Maghrib prayer with the 'Isha prayer, but missed one rak'ah, and completed his prayer such that the form of the Maghrib prayer changed, becoming one rak'ah then two rak'ahs?
- Is repentance from prayers omitted intentionally or intermittently due to laziness obligatory, or is it sufficient to make them up while performing many supererogatory prayers? Does this include those who prayed and then stopped, or only those who never prayed at all and then repented? And how are missed prayers to be made up if they are obligatory?
- What is the ruling on the prayer of one who misses it due to continuous gas from Maghrib until 'Isha? And how are these prayers to be made up? And is there any sin incurred for that?
- Is a woman considered pure and required to pray with the presence of yellow discharge 45 days after childbirth, knowing that her menstrual period ends with dryness, not with a white discharge?
- What is the secret behind the courage of the Salaf that made them not fear lions and snakes?
- Is it valid to perform ghusl with wounds and a small spot of blood, and is it permissible to make up missed prayers while these wounds are present, and is this act considered apostasy?
- What is the prayer referred to in Aisha's — may Allah be pleased with her — saying: "By Him Who took him, he did not leave them until he met Allah, and he did not meet Allah Almighty until he became too heavy for prayer, and he used to perform much of his prayer while sitting"? And does it refer to the two Rak'ahs of Sunnah after Asr? And is the Hadith authentic?
- Is it valid to perform the night vigil (Qiyam al-Layl) in the manner described, and is it acceptable despite the existence of missed prayers that must be made up? Is it more meritorious to shorten the night vigil to make up for missed prayers? Is it permissible to dedicate two rak'ahs for supplication after eight rak'ahs as an act of drawing closer to Allah? Is it permissible to perform the Shaf' and Witr prayers after finishing the night vigil? Does the separation of two rak'ahs of the night vigil from the first six due to the need to use the restroom affect the reward?
- Based on the Shafi'i school's ruling that one afflicted with سلس (incontinence) must perform ablution for each obligatory prayer, is it also necessary for him to re-perform istinja (cleansing after defecation or urination) and re-bind (the affected area) for each obligatory prayer, or is it sufficient to perform only ablution when intending to perform a present obligatory prayer along with several consecutive missed prayers?
- When is it recommended for a latecomer, who missed one rakʿah, to begin his third rakʿah? Should he begin it simultaneously with the Imam's fourth rakʿah, or not? And when is it recommended for the Imam, the ma'mūm (follower), and the individual worshiper to begin the third rakʿah: after standing upright from rukūʿ (bowing), or upon starting to stand from the middle tashahhud?
- Must prayers in which Surat Al-Fatiha was not recited correctly, or in which there was no tranquility during bowing and prostrating, be made up?
- Is repentance for prayers that were delayed due to sleep or extreme fatigue sufficient, or must they all be made up?
- Is it possible to perform the regular Sunnah prayers (Sunan al-Rawatib) after Dhuhr at a later time at home, and does this entail the reward mentioned in the Hadith: "Whoever maintains four Rak'ahs before Dhuhr and four after it, Allah will forbid him from the Fire"?