Missed and Made Up Prayers
1,857 questions
Is it permissible for my mother—who is unable to prostrate, so she bows while seated on a chair—to sit for a few seconds after rising from the second prostration and before standing for the next rak'ah, without saying "Allahu Akbar" between the prostration and the sitting, and then saying "Allahu Akbar" after getting up from the chair to stand?
If menstruation began minutes before waking up after the noon prayer and sleeping until the time of the مغرب (Maghrib) prayer, does one have to make up the ‘Asr and Maghrib prayers after becoming pure? And how are they to be made up?
Is it sufficient for a worshiper to change their intention during a prayer that they started with the intention of Dhuhr, then remembered in the second rak'ah that it was the 'Asr prayer, or should they interrupt the prayer, or repeat it, knowing that they completed the prayer with the intention of 'Asr?
Must one make up missed prayers after ghusl from menstruation for one who did not know of their obligation and is ignorant of their number?
Is it obligatory to make up the prayers I missed previously, considering the subsequent bleedings from menstruation, or is it sufficient to adopt the new ruling that they are not menstruation from now on?
Is it permissible to make up for missed supererogatory sunnah prayers—both those performed before and those performed after the obligatory prayers—after their prescribed time has passed, especially if they were missed due to time constraints? And is it permissible to look at cartoon images drawn with a pencil that aim to improve marital relations and are not of males or females?
Is it obligatory to make up seven years of prayers due to ignorance of the rulings of prayer, then abandoning them for a period, with no certainty as to the exact number of missed prayers?
Is it permissible for someone who has missed many prayers to make up for them day by day along with the current prayers, and is their prayer invalidated if they pray the current prayer before the missed one?
How can one atone for sins and consistently perform prayers after a period of abandoning them, with a sincere intention to adhere to acts of obedience?
Is it obligatory to re-perform prayers missed due to seminal fluid dripping before exercising caution? Is this fluid impure, necessitating purification from it? And does the exemption for error and forgetfulness include this situation?
How does one make up the 'Asr, Maghrib, and 'Isha prayers that were missed after the Dhuhr prayer?
How does one make up prayers missed due to intentionally delaying ghusl, and is one considered to have forgotten or to have acted intentionally?
Am I required to make up the current missed prayer if I am busy making up a full year's worth of missed prayers?
Is it obligatory to make up the prayers for the day the questioner fell ill 11 years ago, knowing that she prayed some of them and left others due to severe pain?
Is it obligatory to make up the missed prayers immediately upon waking, or is it permissible to choose another time for making them up as long as the person has no other preoccupying commitments?
What is required of one who stopped praying for less than a year due to scrupulosity in prayer and ablution?
What is Ibn Taymiyyah's opinion regarding ablution (wudu') for prayer, and must it be repeated if it was performed before its due time?
Must one make up for six days of fasting from past Ramadans, due to the assumption of dryness and not knowing the sign of purity from menstruation?
What should I do if I don't know when I reached puberty, and I want to make up the prayers I missed due to not performing istinja' before prayer?
What is the ruling on a muezzin working in exchange for housing without pay, given his absence from some prayers and the officials' overlooking of this, and what is the ruling on some worshippers using electricity before the permissible time for opening the mosque, and what are the implications for the muezzin regarding what has passed?
Is expiation required for one who has made a covenant with Allah to pray a missed prayer at a specific time, but then was delayed by three minutes due to forgetfulness?
What should someone do who has recently started praying, only memorizes a few short surahs, repeats them in every obligatory and supererogatory prayer, and cannot memorize more due to their circumstances and age?
What is the ruling on previous prayers in which the imam was preceded in standing (qiyam) out of ignorance, and what is the ruling on stopping midway through a transition when racing the imam? And was it obligatory to return to a seated position? And how can a worshipper know the imam's speed in transitioning from standing to prostrating, especially if he cannot see him? And what should he do if he precedes the imam in standing or other actions while the imam has already begun to move?
Should one make up the Witr prayer upon feeling something white discharge during the prayer, when uncertain if it exited before or after the prayer?