How should one pray if the time for dialysis coincides with the time for prayer?
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Q: His Eminence Shaykh Abdul Aziz ibn Abdullah ibn Baz (may Allah preserve him). Peace be upon you, and Allah’s mercy and blessings. And after:
I am a person suffering from kidney disease, and I undergo dialysis three times a week. When I lie on the dialysis bed and the dialysis lines are attached, I remain under the machine for four hours. The call to Maghrib prayer sometimes occurs while I am undergoing dialysis, and I am unable to move from my position or perform wudu' in this state. Am I considered excused if I delay the prayer until its time ends, or should I pray in my current state without wudu', even though, according to the position of the chair, I may be facing a direction other than the qiblah? Please advise us, may you be rewarded, about what is obligatory for me.
A: And upon you be peace, and Allah's mercy and blessings.
In such a situation, it is prescribed to combine the prayers by advancing or delaying them. If the procedure is performed during the time of the first prayer, it is prescribed for you to combine Maghrib and 'Isha' by advancing them. However, if the procedure is performed before the time of Maghrib enters, or at the very beginning of it, and combining by advancing is not possible, then the Sunnah is to delay Maghrib and combine it with 'Isha' by delaying them, because you are a sick person, and this is the ruling for the sick person. Likewise, the traveler, if he is on a journey, combines by advancing if he departs from his location during the time of the first prayer. But if he departs before the time of the first prayer enters, he combines by delaying. This is what is established from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). Likewise, the ruling for Dhuhr and 'Asr applies to the sick person and the traveler.
We ask Allah for you and for all Muslims to be healed and granted well-being from all evil. And may peace and the mercy of Allah and His blessings be upon you.
Grand Mufti of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Abdul Aziz ibn Abdullah ibn Baz
I am a person suffering from kidney disease, and I undergo dialysis three times a week. When I lie on the dialysis bed and the dialysis lines are attached, I remain under the machine for four hours. The call to Maghrib prayer sometimes occurs while I am undergoing dialysis, and I am unable to move from my position or perform wudu' in this state. Am I considered excused if I delay the prayer until its time ends, or should I pray in my current state without wudu', even though, according to the position of the chair, I may be facing a direction other than the qiblah? Please advise us, may you be rewarded, about what is obligatory for me.
A: And upon you be peace, and Allah's mercy and blessings.
In such a situation, it is prescribed to combine the prayers by advancing or delaying them. If the procedure is performed during the time of the first prayer, it is prescribed for you to combine Maghrib and 'Isha' by advancing them. However, if the procedure is performed before the time of Maghrib enters, or at the very beginning of it, and combining by advancing is not possible, then the Sunnah is to delay Maghrib and combine it with 'Isha' by delaying them, because you are a sick person, and this is the ruling for the sick person. Likewise, the traveler, if he is on a journey, combines by advancing if he departs from his location during the time of the first prayer. But if he departs before the time of the first prayer enters, he combines by delaying. This is what is established from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). Likewise, the ruling for Dhuhr and 'Asr applies to the sick person and the traveler.
We ask Allah for you and for all Muslims to be healed and granted well-being from all evil. And may peace and the mercy of Allah and His blessings be upon you.
Grand Mufti of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Abdul Aziz ibn Abdullah ibn Baz
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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