The ruling on the prayer and fasting of an elderly or sick person whose recovery is not expected
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Question:
Among the questions sent by the brothers: What is required of an elderly person, O Shaykh, and a sick person whose recovery is not expected, regarding fasting and prayer, O Honorable Shaykh?
Answer:
As for the prayer, he prays according to his ability, standing, sitting, or on his side, as in the hadith. If he is not present and not facing the qiblah, and he is unable to fast, neither to perform it nor to make it up, then he feeds on his behalf for each day the amount of one and a half kilograms of food, which is collected and given to the poor. Yes.
Among the questions sent by the brothers: What is required of an elderly person, O Shaykh, and a sick person whose recovery is not expected, regarding fasting and prayer, O Honorable Shaykh?
Answer:
As for the prayer, he prays according to his ability, standing, sitting, or on his side, as in the hadith.
And as for fasting, if he is unable to fast
وأما الصيام فإذا كان لا يستطيع الصيام
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [4420] حكم صلاة وصيام الشيخ الكبير والمريض الذي لا يُرجى برؤه - صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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