What should you do when you are sick and cannot perform prayers?
Dear Brother / Sister,
First of all there is no excuse for quitting performing prayers in our religion. A person who cannot make wudu (ablution) can make tayammum (using earth for wudu instead of water); a person who cannot stand or sit down can pray while lying down by moving his head. It means that no Muslim who is sane and without a legal excuse can neither miss nor delay his/her salah. Even if you are regarded to pay your debt by performing Salah later, you will be responsible for not praying on time.
But if you could not perform prayer on time then you have to perform it later; Performing an obligatory prayer (salah) in time is called execution, performing it after its specified time has elapsed is called compensation (qada); performing a prayer again that has been spoiled is called repetition.
If these prayers were disregarded without an excuse, since this is a sin, it is inconvenient to expose this.
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How are the compensation prayers (qada prayers) performed?
Questions on Islam
- In what cases can prayers be left to be performed later as qada?
- Why should a woman who menstruates perform fasting as qada later since she does not perform prayers as qada?
- Are Sunnah prayers and witr prayers that are missed performed later as qada? How should one make niyyah if he performs the morning prayer after the sunrise and before noon?
- Is it possible to perform fasting later as qada?
- What is Compensatory prayer?
- Could you give information about the qada (compensation) of missed fasts and paying ransom (fidyah) for those fasts?
- Can prayers be skipped due to illness, to be performed later as qada? Did the Prophet (pbuh) perform prayers when he was ill?
- If you have to work eveyday from 4:00 p.m to 11:30 p.m, what should you do about the Asr, Maghrib, and Isha prayers?
- Could you please give information about the subject of "Excuse" in Islam? In which conditions do we become (mazur) excused about the religious services?
- Can a Muslim postpone his/her prayers because of working?

