Is it permissible to combine and shorten prayers for one who catches the prayers while in the sea, and what is the ruling on clothing contaminated with the blood of game?
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The questioner:
I sometimes work in the summer, and the midday, afternoon, and sunset prayers catch me while I am in the sea. The question is: Is it permissible for me to shorten the prayer due to hardship? Is it permissible for me to combine the midday and afternoon prayers in this case? Is it better for me to pray each prayer in its time in the sea, despite my clothes being contaminated with blood and the place not being pure, or is it better to delay all the prayers and, when I return home, where I can wear pure clothes and find a pure place, to make them all up at home?
The Shaykh:
As for shortening the prayer, it is not permissible except in the case of travel. If you are traveling from your town a distance of eighty kilometers or more, then you have the right to shorten the prayer. But if the distance you go to for hunting is less than eighty kilometers, then you do not have the right to shorten the prayer. As for combining, the default and obligatory ruling is that each prayer is to be prayed in its time as much as possible. So, if you are able to pray in the sea on the vessel you are riding, then it is obligatory for you to pray each prayer in its time,
The questioner:
according to your ability. And this blood you mentioned, we do not know what it is. Does fish have blood? Fish does not have blood; it is pure. But if you are unable to pray in the sea and cannot manage to do so, then you may combine the midday and afternoon prayers, and the sunset and night prayers in
The Shaykh:
one of them, either combining by advancing or combining by delaying, according to what is customary. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good. This is if the distance is a travel distance.
The Shaykh:
No, if Allah wills, it is permissible for a pressing need, even if it is within the town.
The presenter:
A pressing need.
The Shaykh:
It is not a dire necessity, I mean.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good. Is our brother’s situation one of dire necessity? No.
The Shaykh:
I do not know. If he is unable to pray in the sea, then it is a case of dire necessity. But if he is able, then he does not have the right to sit [and delay].
The presenter:
Allah is the Helper. He complains about the contamination of his clothes and so on.
The Shaykh:
All of this does not permit combining.
The presenter:
We seek help from Allah.
The Shaykh:
If the clothes are soiled with something pure, it does not affect the prayer. Pray even if his clothes are soiled with something pure. As for exhaustion and fatigue, this does not exempt him from praying in its time.
The presenter:
May Allah bless you. Perhaps he chooses other marine animals besides fish, and perhaps they have blood. Is there another person who has this?
The Shaykh:
Blood differs. The blood that comes from slaughter and flows from the veins at the time of slaughter is ritually impure; it must be washed from the garment and the body. But the blood remaining in the slaughtered animal or in the game in its meat is pure and permissible.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good. If you have advice for our brother at the end of his message, may Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh:
Our advice to our brother is to fear Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) and to preserve the prayer, and to pray each prayer in its time as much as he is able, because the prayer is the pillar of Islam and the Muslim’s capital in his religion. It is obligatory for him to preserve the prayer and to pray it in its time as much as he is able. Allah the Exalted said:[At-Taghabun 64:16]. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good
I sometimes work in the summer, and the midday, afternoon, and sunset prayers catch me while I am in the sea. The question is: Is it permissible for me to shorten the prayer due to hardship? Is it permissible for me to combine the midday and afternoon prayers in this case? Is it better for me to pray each prayer in its time in the sea, despite my clothes being contaminated with blood and the place not being pure, or is it better to delay all the prayers and, when I return home, where I can wear pure clothes and find a pure place, to make them all up at home?
The Shaykh:
As for shortening the prayer, it is not permissible except in the case of travel. If you are traveling from your town a distance of eighty kilometers or more, then you have the right to shorten the prayer. But if the distance you go to for hunting is less than eighty kilometers, then you do not have the right to shorten the prayer. As for combining, the default and obligatory ruling is that each prayer is to be prayed in its time as much as possible. So, if you are able to pray in the sea on the vessel you are riding, then it is obligatory for you to pray each prayer in its time,
The questioner:
according to your ability. And this blood you mentioned, we do not know what it is. Does fish have blood? Fish does not have blood; it is pure. But if you are unable to pray in the sea and cannot manage to do so, then you may combine the midday and afternoon prayers, and the sunset and night prayers in
The Shaykh:
one of them, either combining by advancing or combining by delaying, according to what is customary. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good. This is if the distance is a travel distance.
The Shaykh:
No, if Allah wills, it is permissible for a pressing need, even if it is within the town.
The presenter:
A pressing need.
The Shaykh:
It is not a dire necessity, I mean.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good. Is our brother’s situation one of dire necessity? No.
The Shaykh:
I do not know. If he is unable to pray in the sea, then it is a case of dire necessity. But if he is able, then he does not have the right to sit [and delay].
The presenter:
Allah is the Helper. He complains about the contamination of his clothes and so on.
The Shaykh:
All of this does not permit combining.
The presenter:
We seek help from Allah.
The Shaykh:
If the clothes are soiled with something pure, it does not affect the prayer. Pray even if his clothes are soiled with something pure. As for exhaustion and fatigue, this does not exempt him from praying in its time.
The presenter:
May Allah bless you. Perhaps he chooses other marine animals besides fish, and perhaps they have blood. Is there another person who has this?
The Shaykh:
Blood differs. The blood that comes from slaughter and flows from the veins at the time of slaughter is ritually impure; it must be washed from the garment and the body. But the blood remaining in the slaughtered animal or in the game in its meat is pure and permissible.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good. If you have advice for our brother at the end of his message, may Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh:
Our advice to our brother is to fear Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) and to preserve the prayer, and to pray each prayer in its time as much as he is able, because the prayer is the pillar of Islam and the Muslim’s capital in his religion. It is obligatory for him to preserve the prayer and to pray it in its time as much as he is able. Allah the Exalted said:
So fear Allah as much as you are able
فَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ مَا اسْتَطَعْتُمْThe presenter:
May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل يجوز الجمع والقصر لمن أدركته الصلوات وهو في البحر، وما حكم الملابس الملوثة بدم الصيد؟صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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