The Ruling on Reminding One Who Has Lost His Memory of Prayer and Fasting

The questioner : May Allah reward you. The questioner says: My father has lost his memory.

The Shaykh : He owes no fasting and no feeding on his behalf. However, if he has lost his memory but remembers when reminded, it is obligatory for you to remind him. For example, a person sits with him when he intends to pray and says, "Say the takbir, recite al-Fatihah, bow, stand up," guiding him through it. There is no harm in this situation to combine the two prayers, Zuhr and 'Asr, and Maghrib and 'Isha'. Likewise, regarding fasting, he fasts; if he asks for food or drink, he is told, "So-and-so, you are fasting," just as if a person who has lost his memory eats and drinks, we remind him. This is an important point. Some people say, "If you see a fasting person eating or drinking while he is unaware, do not remind him." Why?
He said: Do not cut off his livelihood; let him eat and drink, for the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said We say that this person is excused, without a doubt, but you, who know now that he is in a state of what is wrong, are not excused. This is why the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said regarding prayer: If you forget, remind me. And the scholars (may Allah have mercy on them) said that if one sees a person intending to use ritually impure water, it is obligatory for him to warn him and say, "This water is ritually impure because of such and such." Likewise, they said that if one sees a person sleeping and fears that the time will pass, it is obligatory for him to wake him. You? And until tomorrow morning, if Allah wills. The difficult time. That it is an Egyptian pound. We say: Buy an Egyptian pound with Saudi riyals, then go to the bank and give him the Egyptian pounds to convert them to Egypt. This is a permissible method.

The questioner : The questioner says: A man divorced his wife with a divorce.

The Shaykh : Another method: Convert Saudi riyals to Egypt as Saudi riyals, and the person to whom you converted the riyals, if he wishes to exchange them from the bank there, he converts them to Egyptian pounds, and there is no harm in that. Yes.