We all get sick from time to time and experience certain health problems. This is natural, but sometimes, indulging only in our illness, we forget about remembering Allah Almighty. We neglect our prayers when we are sick, because the only thing we care about is a speedy recovery. Whatever the circumstances, prayer is obligatory for every Muslim. However, whoever has a valid reason during illness and cannot stand during the obligatory prayer, is allowed to recite the prayer in a sitting position. If he cannot sit, he is allowed to perform namaz lying down, repeating the movements of his hands.

The Quran says: “When you complete your prayer, remember Allah standing, sitting or lying on your sides. When you find yourself safe, then perform namaz. Indeed, prayer is prescribed for believers at certain times” (4:103).

Islam is a flexible religion; it does not try to burden a person and place a heavy burden on him. It is not categorical in its manifestation and provides relief. Because obedience to Allah depends on physical ability.

The hadith says: “Pray standing, and if you can’t, then sit, and if you can’t, then on your side.”

Another hadith also says: “Perform prayer on earth if you are able to do so. Otherwise, gesture and bend lower when making a bow to the ground than you do when making a bow from the waist.”

If a person is too weak to stand, he performs prayer while sitting and makes bows and prostrations in this state. When bowing from the waist, he should lean forward so that his forehead is opposite his knees.

If a person is unable to sit, he should lie on his back, lean on a pillow and tilt his torso and stretch his legs in the direction of prayer, making bows and bows to the ground.

If a person cannot perform namaz in a semi-sitting position, he must perform namaz lying on his right or left side (preferably on the right), turning towards the qibla.

If he cannot perform namaz in this position, then he must perform it lying on his back, pointing his feet and raising his head towards the qibla. Making a bow and bow to the ground, he nods his head. A nod of prostration more than a bow.

If a person is not able to perform namaz in all the above cases, then he should pray, giving signs with his eyes and mentally imagining the movements of namaz in his head.

If he is not able to do this, then prayer is performed only with the heart, imagining it in the head.

If a person is able to stand, but cannot make bows and sujud, then it is better for him to perform namaz while sitting and nod while bowing.

If a person who performed namaz while sitting during an illness began to feel better during the namaz, he should perform the rest of the prayer while standing (naturally, where it is required).

If a person begins to perform additional prayer and feels weak, he is allowed to lean against the wall or sit down.
Anyone who has lost consciousness during the period of five prayers must make up for them.

A person never knows when his last prayer will come; do not neglect sacred solitude with the Almighty, perform each prayer as if it were your last.

May the Almighty protect us from illness and grant us health to worship Him.

Question: Assalamu alaikum! I have the following question: I had a bad cold, my throat hurt, and I had a severe headache. She lay in bed all day and only got up for prayer, and at night the headache became unbearable. After taking the pill, I went to bed, asked my sister to wake me up for morning prayer, I knew that I wouldn’t be able to get up and, even if I got up, I wouldn’t be able to pray properly. The next morning, when my sister woke me up, I did not get up for prayer. Now I repent of this, because I know that I should not skip prayer. I usually get up early for Tahajjud prayer, but due to poor health, I missed Farz prayer. The problem was that I knew that if I stood up, my head would hurt even more. It turns out that I had the intention of not getting up for prayer... I now sincerely repent of what I did, because illness is also a test from Allah, and I, considering myself sick, missed the fard prayer. How can I make up for missed prayers? Will I be forgiven for missing prayers due to illness? Answer me please! I very much regret what I did... (Chechnya)

Answer:

In the name of the Gracious and Merciful Allah!
Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh!

I sincerely apologize for the delay in response due to my short trip.

Your attitude towards prayer is enviable. MashaAllah, there are not many people in the world who are so sincere about prayer. We pray to Allah to bless us with a similar attitude towards prayer, and may Allah strengthen you! Amen. If you overslept, there will be no sin on you, and you should have read the kaza-namaz for the missed prayer as soon as you woke up. But if you intentionally skipped prayer, this is a great sin. In your case, it would be correct to do the following: if the pain was unbearable to stand in prayer, then you should read the prayer while sitting. And if this would bring you unbearable pain, then you could perform prayer while reclining. It was narrated by some of the Companions and their followers (may Allah be pleased with them) that they prayed in a reclining position when they were very sick and were unable to stand up or sit down.

Deliberately skipping prayer and allowing it to become qaza is a great sin and requires sincere repentance. If you sincerely repent and seek Allah's forgiveness, He will certainly forgive you, inshaAllah. Allah says in the Holy Quran:

قُلْ يَا عِبَادِيَ الَّذِينَ أَسْرَفُوا عَلَى أَنْفُسِهِمْ لَا تَقْنَطُوا مِنْ رَحْمَةِ اللَّهِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَغْفِرُ الذُّنُوبَ جَمِيعًا إِنَّهُ هُوَ الْغَفُورُ الرَّحِيمُ

(O Muhammad - sallallahu alayhi wa sallam), tell My servants who overindulged to harm themselves: “Do not despair of the mercy of Allah. Verily, Allah forgives all sins, for He is Forgiving and Merciful.” (Quran, 39:53)

Therefore, do not despair, but on the contrary, rejoice at the opportunity to repent to Allah and know that through sincere repentance a person becomes even closer to Allah.

And Allah knows best.
Wassalam.

Mufti Suhail Tarmahomed
Tested and approved by: Mufti Ibrahim Desai
Fatwa Department of the Council of Ulama (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)

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If something that can spoil the ablution does not stop coming out of the body, then this is considered an excusable state of “Uzr”. The symptoms include: Urine, diarrhea,
air from the anus, blood from the nose, blood from a wound, ichor, tears appearing from pain or from a tumor. If the above does not stop during one prayer, then all this refers to the state of “Uzr”. The condition of a woman during “Menstruation” also refers to “Uzr”. It will be necessary to stop these causes by dressing the bandage, or performing prayer while sitting, or by making gestures.

Men should plug urine outlets with cotton wool. Urine absorbed into the cotton wool will not come out, and thus ablution will not be disrupted. When you relieve yourself, the fleece will come out on its own. If the cotton wool does not hold urine, then the ablution will be spoiled.

The urine that comes out should not get on the laundry, staining it. To do this, women use a tampon pad made of cotton wool or fabric. If these methods do not stop the discharge, you need to take ablution during each prayer. The owner of the Uzra, with ablution, can read the farzas of this time, arrears in prayers, and additional prayers. Can hold the Holy Quran in his hands. When the time of prayer ends, the action of ablution ends. If during this time the ablution has deteriorated for other reasons, then you need to take ablution again. For example, if ablution was performed after blood came from one nostril, and then blood came from the other nostril, then you need to take ablution again.

To be the owner of the state of Uzr, the discharge that spoils ablution must not stop during the time of one prayer. If, after performing ablution, it does not deteriorate during the reading of one fard of this time, then it is impossible to become the owner of the states of Uzr. According to the Maliki madhhab, one becomes the owner of the Uzr state even if one drop comes out. If the person who has become the owner of the Uzr state, during the continuation of the prayer, at least one drop comes out, then he becomes the owner of the Uzr state. If there is no discharge during one prayer, then there is no state of Uzr. If the uncleanness that causes the Uzr stains clothes larger than one Dirham, or can stain more than one Dirham, the place where the uncleanliness entered must be washed.

If performing “Ghusul” can cause a disease, intensify it, or increase the duration of the disease, then you need to perform “Tayammum”. This must be confirmed either by your own experience or the experience of a Muslim, or by a trusted doctor. The words of a doctor who has not been observed to openly commit sins are also accepted. The cause of the disease may be cold, lack of a warm place to live, lack of opportunity to heat water, lack of money to visit the bathhouse. According to the scholars of the Hanafi madhhab, you can perform as many fards as you like with tayammum. According to the Shafi and Maliki madhhabs, a separate tayammum must be performed for each fard.

When those parts of the body that should be washed when performing ablution are half in the wounds, then “Tayammum” is performed. If there are less than half of the wounds, then the places where there are no wounds are washed, and wiping is done on the wounds (Masih). Since when performing “Ghusul” the whole body is considered one, if half of the body is wounded, then tayammum is performed. If there are less than half of the wounds, then the healthy places are washed, and the unhealthy ones are wiped. If wiping a wound can be harmful to health, then the wound is wiped over the bandage. If this can cause harm, then no rubbing is done. If during “Wudu” and “Ghusul”, wiping (Masih) causes any harm, wiping may not be done. If you have no arms, or if you have wounds or eczema on your hands, you do tayammum. To do this, he runs his hands along the ground, brick, stone. If a person without arms or legs has wounds on his face, then he performs prayers without ablution. If such a person does not have an assistant to perform ablution, he performs tayammum. Such a person should be helped by his children, servants, or a person hired for this purpose. You can ask outside help. But this is not the responsibility of anyone. In such situations, neither spouse is obliged to help each other.

After bloodletting, donating blood, using leeches, if there are pimples, if bones are broken and a bandage, plaster, tourniquet, plaster is applied, and the ingress of water during ablutions can cause harm, then during ablutions, a single “Meskh” wipe is done on more than half of these places. . If removing the bandage can cause harm to health, then healthy areas under the bandage are not washed. The areas between the bandages are wiped clean. It is not necessary to bandage after ablution. If, after wiping, the bandage was changed, re-wiping is not required.

Anyone who cannot perform namaz while standing does it while sitting. The patient who, if he gets to his feet to perform namaz, may aggravate his illness, or this may have complex consequences for health, also performs namaz while sitting. Ruku'u makes a bow with his body. Then, remaining seated, he straightens up to perform two sujuds. Sit as comfortably as possible. Can sit on laps, or Muslim style. Headaches, toothaches, and eye pains also fall under this category. The risk of being noticed by the enemy also applies to the Uzr state. If performing namaz while standing spoils ablution or fasting, then namaz is performed while sitting. Anyone who can perform namaz while standing, leaning on something, prays while standing. Anyone whose pain worsens while standing in prayer can sit down when the pain begins.

Anyone who cannot perform ruku’u and sujudah reads namaz while standing. Having sat down, he makes ruku’u and sujuds with gestures. Anyone who cannot bend his body for ruku'u and sujud makes gestures with his head. When performing sajda, it is not necessary to place your forehead on anything. This is considered makruh, even if one bends over for sajdah more than for ruku’u. A patient who can sit should not recite namaz while lying down, making gestures with his head. One day the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wassalam) visited a sick person. When he saw that the patient was making sujud, he brought the pillow to his forehead and took it away. Then the sick man began to bring a piece of wood to his forehead, the prophet took it away and said: “If you have the strength, make sujud on the floor. If you don’t have the strength, don’t bring anything to your forehead. Make gestures. For sajdah, lean more than ruku’u.” The book “Bahr-ur Raik” says: “In verse 191 of Surah Al-i Imran it is said: “Who, standing, sitting and lying down, reflect on the creation of heaven and earth and say: Lord, it is not for nothing that You created all this. O all praise, save us from the torment of fire." When Imran bin Hussein fell ill, the Prophet (alaihis-sallam) told him: “Get up on your feet for prayer. If you don't have the strength, do it while sitting. If you don’t have the strength for this, perform prayer while lying down.” As can be seen from the above, a patient who cannot perform namaz while standing sits down. Anyone who cannot sit lies down. It is clear that it is not allowed to sit on a chair, armchair or sofa. The prayer of a sick person or a traveler traveling on a bus or on an airplane, which is performed while sitting on a chair, does not correspond to Islam. Namaz must be performed standing or sitting on the floor. Anyone who can stand with the jamaat for namaz performs namaz while remaining at home.

Below are 20 situations, under one of which, you can not go to congregational prayer: Rain, very hot or cold weather, danger threatening life or property, fear of being alone on the road, a very dark night, a poor person who is afraid of arrest for an unpaid debt , blindness, the stage of disability when the patient cannot move independently, to be one-legged, to be sick, to be powerless, a very dirty road, to be unable to walk, non-walking old man, if you cannot miss an important lesson in fiqh, to be left without your favorite food, to get ready for the journey, not find a replacement to look after the patient if there is a strong wind at night, if you really want to go to the toilet. It will be possible to skip Friday prayers if the illness may worsen or the duration of the illness will increase. Or there is no one to leave the patient with. Also, not being able to walk due to old age. It is not allowed to pray in a mosque with your legs dangling while sitting on a chair or armchair. Performing prayers not in accordance with Shariah is an innovation (Bid'at). In books on fiqh it is written about the great sin of committing bid'ah.

A bedridden patient who cannot sit, even leaning on something, performs namaz, making gestures with his head, remaining lying on his back, and if he cannot on his back, then lying on his right side. If he cannot turn to the Qiblah, then he reads the prayer at his convenience. For a patient lying on his back, they place something under his head so that his face is facing the Qibla. It is better to bend your legs so that they do not stretch towards the Qibla. If the patient cannot make gestures with his head, then he is allowed to leave the prayers for the future. If you feel ill during prayer, then prayer is performed as long as you have enough strength. If the patient began the prayer while sitting and felt good during the prayer, he can continue the prayer by standing on his feet. One who has lost his mind does not perform prayer. If he comes to his senses during the duration of five prayers, he makes up for the missed prayers. If you come to your senses after the time of six prayers, then the missed prayers will not be made up.

Missed prayers must be restored by reading, at least by gestures. Anyone who has debts for prayers must bequeath to his heirs the payment of “Fidya” before his death. This is wajib. If such a will has not been made, this can be done by the heirs, and even by a complete stranger.

Islam is characterized by focusing on the individual characteristics of Muslims in order to help them comply with their prescribed obligations. As for one of the pillars of faith - prayer, there are also reliefs and relaxations in it, depending on the physical condition of the person praying.

Prayer times for all cities of Russia are presented in a special section of our website.

In this matter, the principle of making religion easier for those who find it difficult for reasons beyond their control. The Holy Quran clearly states:

“...Allah desires ease for you and does not desire difficulty for you...” (2:185)

“Allah does not impose on a person beyond his capabilities. He will get what he has acquired, and what he has acquired will be against him...” (2:286)

In an authentic hadith, it is reported that the Final Messenger of the Almighty (s.g.w.) said: “Perform prayer standing (as required), if you do not have the strength for this, then read the prayer while sitting, if you do not have the strength for this, then pray leaning on his elbows" (Bukhari). In another saying of the Grace of the Worlds, Muhammad (s.g.w.), transmitted from Nasai, there is a continuation: “if this is not possible, then read the prayer while lying on your back.”

Based on this hadith, scholars have decided that sick people who are not able to fully perform namaz due to a physical disability, illness (internal organs, spine, broken limbs), difficult pregnancy (difficulty bending over, threat of miscarriage) are allowed by Shariah not to perform prayer according to all prescribed norms.

At reading prayer while sitting There is an important condition: the tilt of the head in sajdah () must be greater than in rukug (waist bow), otherwise the prayer is considered incorrect.

However, a believer susceptible to illness should focus on his real condition and not overdo it. It is not permissible to pray while sitting or lying down when a person feels better and can already perform prayer fully. If a Muslim began prayer while sick, but then felt relief, then he should continue the next steps of prayer (rukug and sajdah) standing (if sitting) or sitting (if lying). It is also preferable to read while standing, leaning on another person or a stick, rather than sitting.

It is important to note that an inferior prayer is not accepted by a person who does not have objective reasons for relaxation.

If he feels ill during prayer, then it is better not to stop praying, but to continue prayer while sitting or lying down. It will be better for the person praying the later he completes the prayer or performs incomplete actions while sick.

When trying to make your prayer easier, you need to remember that such a reward prayer is not equal to the full prayer of a healthy person. The companion of the Prophet (s.g.w.) Anas (r.a.) reports about this: “The Prophet Muhammad (s.g.w.) came out to the people who were praying in a sitting position due to illness, and said: “Truly , the prayer of a person sitting (according to his reward) is half the prayer of a person standing” (hadith from Ahmad and Ibn Majah).

Namaz for a bedridden patient has the following features:

1. Lie on your back with your legs stretched towards Kyibla. It is advisable to slightly bend your knees. Rukug and sajdah are done by raising (or nodding) the head. It is recommended to place something under your head to elevate your upper body.

In one of the hadiths it is reported that when he came to visit the sick man, the Final Messenger of God (s.g.v.) saw him praying on a pillow, which he brought to his head, imitating a bow. The Prophet (s.a.w.) took the pillow and threw it aside. Then the sick man took the board to pray, touching it with his forehead, but the Messenger of Allah threw it aside, saying: “Pray with your forehead touching the ground if you can. If not, then gesture with your head: when making a bow to the ground, bow it lower than when making a bow from the waist” (at-Tabarani).

2. In cases where a believer cannot lie on his back, he is allowed to turn over on his right side, facing towards Qibla.

3. It is not allowed to read the prayer only mentally or with facial expressions (closing eyes, moving eyebrows). However, there are a few supporters of the opposite opinion, when performing namaz with the eyes and even with intention (mentally) is permitted.

4. If a person, due to severe illness (unconscious, paralyzed), missed 6 prayers in a row, then there is no need to make up or pay fidya (monetary compensation). If less than six prayers are missed, then performing kaza prayer (making up the missed prayers) becomes obligatory. This is evidenced by the fact that once Ibn Umar (ra) was unconscious for a day and night, and when he came to his senses, he did not make up for the missed prayers (hadith reported by ad-Darakutni). However, if loss of consciousness occurred as a result of taking medications, then completing prayers is mandatory regardless of the number of missed prayers.

Rules for collective prayer

• If a believer, having reached the mosque, loses strength and becomes so ill that he has to perform a lighter form of prayer, then he should read the prayer at home.

• A healthy person cannot perform prayer behind the imam, who replaces bows with a nod of the head.

Question: Is it possible to postpone and make up prayers due to a headache?

Answer:

Firstly, Allah commanded His slaves to perform prayer at the time specified by Him and said: “Truly, prayer has been prescribed for believers and the time for its performance has been specified.” (Surah Women;103)
He increased the prayer time for his slaves, determined the beginning and end time for each prayer. And the time that is between the beginning (which is the best time to perform namaz) and the end is added time, and those who were unable to perform namaz at the beginning can perform it before the time for this namaz ends.
A famous hadith says that after Jibril, peace be upon him, performed all five prayers with the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) at the allotted time, he told him: “O Muhammad, these are the times in which all the prophets prayed, that were before you, and the time of prayer lasts between these two intervals.” This hadith was narrated by Abu Dawud (393) and Sheikh al-Albani, may Allah have mercy on him, considered this hadith authentic in his book “Sahih wa zaif sunani Abu Dawud” (1\393).
You cannot postpone prayer until its time has passed without a good reason, such as sleep or forgetfulness, because the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “There is no negligence in sleep. True negligence is not performing prayer until it is time for another prayer.” This hadith was reported by Muslim (1099).

Secondly:
When a person is sick to such an extent that it is difficult for him to perform namaz at the specified time, be it at the beginning of the namaz or at the end, and also if he cannot perform it standing or sitting, or on his side, since permission has come for the sick person to do so , then he can combine two prayers: lunch and pre-sunset, evening and night, combining pre-sunset prayer and lunch, night prayer and evening, or combine lunch and pre-sunset prayer during the pre-sunset, and evening prayer during the night, depending on how it is easier for him. Morning prayer is performed at the appointed time, i.e. can't stand it. All this can be done until the reason why a person could not perform namaz at the right time and combined it passes, i.e. until he recovers.
Ibn Quddama, may Allah have mercy on him, said: “An illness that allows one to combine prayers is one that causes a person to become weak and which brings him suffering.” Al-Asram said that Abu Abdullah was asked: “Can a sick person combine prayers?” He replied: “This is permissible for him only if he is very weakened and cannot perform prayer in another permitted way.” (Al-Mugh1ni (2/59)