Is the prayer dropped if a patient is unable to perform it?

Question : If one is unable to perform the three levels mentioned by the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), and we said that he does not pray with his eyes, is the prayer dropped or not?

Answer : The correct view is that it is not valid, based on the generality of the saying of Allah the Exalted: It is known that the prayer is an act of the heart and an act of the body. If the bodily act becomes impossible, the act of the heart remains. Therefore, he says the takbir and recites, and when he intends to bow, he intends in his heart that he is bowing and says the tasbih of bowing, then he intends in his heart that he has risen from bowing, and so on for the rest of the prayer. This is the most correct opinion, even though some scholars, such as Shaykh al-Islam al-Tamimi (may Allah have mercy on him), say that if the three levels are exhausted, there is no prayer. It is asked: What is the evidence? Does not Allah say: ? Or is not the prayer an act of the heart and the body? If the bodily act becomes impossible, is not the act of the heart obligatory?