Waking the Wife for the Fajr Prayer and Obliging Her to Perform It
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: My wife, I wake her for the Fajr prayer, but she is slow to wake up, and usually she does not pray the Fajr prayer until the very end of the time. His question is: Is what is obligatory for me, in order for my conscience to be clear, merely to wake her? Or is it obligatory for me to stand by her until she wakes up?
Answer:
Yes, obliging her is sufficient. You must order her to pray. It is not enough that you tell her to pray and then leave her alone; rather, you must not leave her until she is standing and has entered into the prayer.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: My wife, I wake her for the Fajr prayer, but she is slow to wake up, and usually she does not pray the Fajr prayer until the very end of the time. His question is: Is what is obligatory for me, in order for my conscience to be clear, merely to wake her? Or is it obligatory for me to stand by her until she wakes up?
Answer:
Yes, obliging her is sufficient. You must order her to pray. It is not enough that you tell her to pray and then leave her alone; rather, you must not leave her until she is standing and has entered into the prayer.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 68 من 148|شرح كتاب المنتقى|الصلاة|في أن قتل الحية والعقرب والمشي اليسير للحاجة |صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (1:09:45)
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