Prayer When Ill
130 questions
What is the ruling on the prayer of a young man afflicted with urinary incontinence, and what is the treatment for urinary incontinence?
Is it permissible to pray sitting on a chair due to the difficulty of standing resulting from a surgical operation, while being able to stand for some household chores at spaced intervals, and must previous prayers be made up if that is not permissible?
What is the ruling on praying on a chair during obligatory prayers, what are the necessities that permit this, and what is the ruling on standing, bowing, and prostrating in it?
Is it permissible for a worshipper to stand on a pillow during prayer due to pain in his feet?
Is it more correct for someone who suffers from urinary incontinence and whose incontinence stops after midnight to pray 'Isha just before midnight, or to wait for the incontinence to stop even if the first half of the night has passed, as long as dawn has not broken, and what should he do if he wants to sleep and the incontinence has not stopped?
What is the ruling on the prayer of one who has undergone surgery to extract urine from one of the kidneys via an external tube that will remain for a week?
What is the ruling on praying while sitting due to foot pain, two months after the removal of a cast?
Which is better for a worshiper unable to stand for the entire prayer: leaning against a wall or sitting?
What is the ruling on the prayer of one who has continuous vaginal discharge and cannot renew her ablution outside the home? And what should she do if she feels the discharge coming out during prayer while she is at home? Is it permissible to wear a pad during prayer?
Is it permissible for my grandmother to pray with gestures, tasbeeh, and takbeer only, without the opening takbeer and reciting Al-Fatiha and the rest of the pillars and obligations, given her health conditions of hearing impairment and difficulty in understanding? And are there other deeds I can do for her to earn reward while she is still alive?
When is it obligatory to make up prayers (qadaa') if one has wiped over a splint (جبيرة)?
How can a person afflicted with urinary and seminal incontinence perform obligatory prayers, including Friday and funeral prayers, taking into account that his seminal discharge is sometimes caused by forbidden practices, and must he repeat past prayers?
Is it permissible for a patient in a hospital to pray with the intention of facing the Qibla without actually facing it, if the direction of his bed is towards the Qibla and it is difficult for him to turn around, and he sometimes prays sitting and sometimes lying down?
Is it permissible for a man with constant ritual impurity ( سلس ) to lead his wife in obligatory prayers (Fard) if there is no mosque nearby, and in supererogatory prayers (Nawafil) such as Qiyam al-Layl?
What is the ruling on the prayer of one who suffers from urinary incontinence that stops when forgotten and increases on Fridays, sometimes preventing him from performing the prayer?
Is the prayer of one who urinated in a vessel because he was prevented from going to the bathroom due to the long duration of being hooked up to heart rate monitoring devices, and prayed by gesturing, valid?
Which is better in prayer for one who is able to sit: praying on a chair or on the ground, knowing that he can prostrate when sitting on the ground?
What is the ruling on the prayer of one who is unable to prostrate due to knee pain, and is it permissible for her to pray sitting, and is it permissible for her to hold the Mus'haf and read from it during prayer?
Is it permissible to prostrate on something elevated, such as a pillow or a desk, while praying sitting, for one who is unable to prostrate on the ground?
Is it permissible to shorten the four-rak'ah prayer to two rak'ahs due to the inability to complete it because of frequent urination resulting from taking diuretic medications?
Is it obligatory to make up missed prayers while sitting during a treatment period that prevents prostration, or should one wait until recovery to make them up?
Is it permissible to pray while a drop of urine continues to fall after purification (istinja'), knowing that the condition is chronic according to the doctor's diagnosis, and that it was mentioned in Imam Al-Nawawi's book of fatwas, "Al-Majmu'," that this condition prevents prayer unless one purifies himself?
Is ablution (wudu') required for a sick person who prays by gesturing, and how should their prayer and facing of the Qibla be?
How can a woman pray when she feels severe pain in her head that leads to vomiting and prevents her from raising her head?