Missed and Made Up Prayers
1,857 questions
Will a schizophrenic patient be held accountable for sometimes abandoning prayer due to a lack of desire, and is the pen lifted from him Islamically?
What is the correct action for worshipers who thought the imam’s takbir was the takbirat al-ihram, then realized it was a takbir of transition (sami‘a Allahu liman hamidah)? And is it necessary to repeat the prayer for someone who performed an additional rak‘ah, thinking they had missed one?
What is the advice for someone who teaches others the importance of prayer and commands her maidservant to pray, while she herself is negligent of it and only prays in front of people?
What is the ruling on the prayer of someone who forgot the opening Takbir (Takbirat al-Ihram): should he complete his prayer and then repeat it, or should he stop it and repeat it immediately?
Are the ideas indicating the necessity of making up all past missed prayers—whose number is unknown—correct for current prayers to be valid, and should we stop making up currently known missed prayers until all unknown old missed prayers are made up, or is it better to promptly make up any prayer missed currently due to an excuse?
Is it obligatory to repeat the Dhuhr and Asr prayers after having combined them by way of taqdim (advancement) during the time of Asr by mistake?
Is it permissible to abandon the Witr prayer? And what are the consequences of abandoning it?
Why do we pray Dhuhr and Asr silently, despite the Quranic command: "And do not recite [too] loudly in your prayer or [too] quietly but seek between that an [intermediate] way"?
Is an expiatory offering (kaffarah) for an oath sufficient for not fulfilling a vow to perform the Shafa and Witr prayers, and what is required if the performance was omitted based on the belief that the expiatory offering was sufficient?