What is required of the family of an unconscious patient regarding prayer
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, my father— the questioner is Abu Salih— my father is in the hospital and has been there for eight months, and we are around him. He does not know or understand what we are saying. Honorable Shaykh, we remind him constantly, and he shakes his head in response to our reminding him of the prayer. What is required of us in the hospital? We hear him.
Answer:
As long as he is unable to pray and cannot perform it, and the period is long, then he owes nothing, and praise be to Allah, until he is healed and his mind returns to him in this matter. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, my father— the questioner is Abu Salih— my father is in the hospital and has been there for eight months, and we are around him. He does not know or understand what we are saying. Honorable Shaykh, we remind him constantly, and he shakes his head in response to our reminding him of the prayer. What is required of us in the hospital? We hear him.
Answer:
As long as he is unable to pray and cannot perform it, and the period is long, then he owes nothing, and praise be to Allah, until he is healed and his mind returns to him in this matter. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، برنامج (فتاوى) (088) لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان بتاريخ [1436-04-29] - كبار العلماء — youtube.com (34:40)
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