Is the pen lifted from the incompetent person?
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The questioner : Your Eminence, is the pen lifted from the incompetent person?
The Shaykh : The pen is lifted from three people: from the child until he reaches puberty, from the insane person until he regains his sanity, and from the sleeping person until he wakes up. By "insane person," I do not mean the one who takes off his clothes and walks naked among the people, or the one who shouts among the people and makes noise at them. No, I mean the one who has lost his intellect, even if he is among the calmest and quietest of people, but he has no discernment. So nothing is required of him; the obligation is dropped from him, whether in prayer, ritual purity, or fasting. Yes, except for zakah; it is necessary for him, because zakah is on the wealth. Yes.
The Shaykh : The pen is lifted from three people: from the child until he reaches puberty, from the insane person until he regains his sanity, and from the sleeping person until he wakes up. By "insane person," I do not mean the one who takes off his clothes and walks naked among the people, or the one who shouts among the people and makes noise at them. No, I mean the one who has lost his intellect, even if he is among the calmest and quietest of people, but he has no discernment. So nothing is required of him; the obligation is dropped from him, whether in prayer, ritual purity, or fasting. Yes, except for zakah; it is necessary for him, because zakah is on the wealth. Yes.