If you are in the wilderness, and your clothes have become contaminated with impurity, and you have no other clothes until you reach home; is it permissible for you to delay the Maghrib prayer?

The questioner : Is it permissible to delay the Maghrib prayer and its time, as the questioner says: "If you are in the wilderness, and your clothes have become contaminated with impurity, and you have no other clothes until you reach home?"

Another questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : No, but I think the question is whether he will reach home after half the night has passed, or when? The issue needs some clarification. There is no doubt that prayer while carrying impurity is not valid and is not permissible; because of His saying - the Exalted - : . So if a person is in a situation where he cannot purify his clothes, he should consider: is the impure garment that he cannot wash, for example, an inner garment? In this case, it can be said to him: take it off, and the other clothes, such as an abaya - for example - or a shirt, are sufficient for you. If the contaminated item is, for example, the trousers and he cannot wash them; then it is said to him: take off your trousers, and pray in the long shirt, especially since in the past they did not wear trousers, not even women, but they were content with wearing this long shirt which is called in some countries "jilbab" or "dishdasha" or similar. Linguistically, it is the shirt, and it may be long or short. This is a way out so that he does not delay the prayer from its time: he takes off the impure garment and prays in the other garment. However, if we assume and narrow the scenario that he cannot pray except naked; then at that time we say to him: if you can delay the prayer until before its time exits in order to wash the garment; then this is the way out. But if that necessitates taking the prayer out of its time; such that it is not prayed after its time has exited; then at that time he prays within the limits of what he can do. We have mentioned a scenario of capability; which is taking off the impure garment. If he has only this one garment, and the matter revolves between praying with his 'awrah exposed and praying with his 'awrah covered but with an impure garment; then here it is said: the lesser evil is preferred over the greater evil. So we say to him: pray in the impure garment, as it is less of a sin or error or ugliness than praying naked without covering the 'awrah in the case of fearing taking the prayer out of its time; because if the prayer exits its time, it is not possible for the obligated person to make it up except with one excuse out of two excuses; which are sleep or forgetfulness; because of his saying - peace and blessings be upon him - : . If someone forgets a prayer during his work; he is distracted from the Zuhr prayer - for example - until the time of the 'Asr prayer enters, and when he hears the 'Asr adhan or is reminded by any other means that he did not pray Zuhr, then at that time he immediately performs the Zuhr prayer then the 'Asr prayer. Or he slept - for example - through the Zuhr prayer or the Fajr prayer; so he did not wake up for it except after it had exited its time; so the Prophet - peace be upon him - says in both cases, the case of sleeping through the prayer or the case of forgetting it; he said - peace be upon him - : . Therefore, it is not permissible for him to delay the prayer on the basis that the garment is impure until its time exits, but rather he strives to solve the problem by the nearest path as we mentioned.
Yes.