What is required of one who prayed without wudu' due to anxiety?
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Question:
Su'ad Mahfouz from al-Sharqiyah sent this message, saying: She performed Hajj this year and neglected it. She says: I was overwhelmed by my husband and children in the Haram, which forced me to speak with men to reach my husband. I reached a stage of despair and hopelessness, and I wished in my heart that Allah would not count this Hajj for me, and that I would repeat it in another year. Then I sat down, reflected, regretted it, and sought forgiveness from my Lord for what I was thinking. I prayed 'Isha' in congregation without wudu' due to anxiety and distress. Please inform me, what is obligatory upon me?
May Allah reward you with the best reward for me.
Answer:
You must repent to Allah and seek forgiveness for what occurred from you, namely praying without wudu' and the supplications that are not befitting. Repentance wipes out what came before it. You must make up the prayer you prayed without wudu', and you must make it up with the ritual purity prescribed by the Shari'ah. A person is exposed to dangers and exposed to sins, but Allah, the Exalted, by His grace made repentance a great opening and a great good, by which Allah erases sins and evil deeds.
So, out of Allah's mercy, He has prescribed repentance. You must repent, seek forgiveness, and feel remorse for what you did that goes against Allah's command. Allah accepts the repentance of those who repent. Repentance means turning away from the sins a person has committed; he turns away from them and leaves them off out of reverence for Allah and fear of Him . He feels remorse for what has passed, feeling genuine remorse for what has passed, grieving over it, and he resolves with a sincere determination that he will not return to the sins. This is repentance.
And there is a fourth matter: If he has injustices against people, the completion of repentance is that he returns the injustices to their owners: whether blood, wealth, or honor, or he seeks their pardon from it. He says: Forgive me, permit me. If they forgive him, he is safe from its evil, and the repentance is complete. Or he returns it to them; if he gave them, it was for them to have blood money for retaliation, enabling them to take retaliation, or if he had wealth, he gave them their wealth, or honor, he said: Permit me. If it is not feasible that they permit him, or he fears that if he informs them about the honor there will be matters of greater danger, then he seeks forgiveness for them and supplicates for them to the extent he thinks he has given them their right. And this is sufficient, if Allah wills. Yes.
Su'ad Mahfouz from al-Sharqiyah sent this message, saying: She performed Hajj this year and neglected it. She says: I was overwhelmed by my husband and children in the Haram, which forced me to speak with men to reach my husband. I reached a stage of despair and hopelessness, and I wished in my heart that Allah would not count this Hajj for me, and that I would repeat it in another year. Then I sat down, reflected, regretted it, and sought forgiveness from my Lord for what I was thinking. I prayed 'Isha' in congregation without wudu' due to anxiety and distress. Please inform me, what is obligatory upon me?
May Allah reward you with the best reward for me.
Answer:
You must repent to Allah and seek forgiveness for what occurred from you, namely praying without wudu' and the supplications that are not befitting. Repentance wipes out what came before it. You must make up the prayer you prayed without wudu', and you must make it up with the ritual purity prescribed by the Shari'ah. A person is exposed to dangers and exposed to sins, but Allah, the Exalted, by His grace made repentance a great opening and a great good, by which Allah erases sins and evil deeds.
So, out of Allah's mercy, He has prescribed repentance. You must repent, seek forgiveness, and feel remorse for what you did that goes against Allah's command. Allah accepts the repentance of those who repent. Repentance means turning away from the sins a person has committed; he turns away from them and leaves them off out of reverence for Allah and fear of Him . He feels remorse for what has passed, feeling genuine remorse for what has passed, grieving over it, and he resolves with a sincere determination that he will not return to the sins. This is repentance.
And there is a fourth matter: If he has injustices against people, the completion of repentance is that he returns the injustices to their owners: whether blood, wealth, or honor, or he seeks their pardon from it. He says: Forgive me, permit me. If they forgive him, he is safe from its evil, and the repentance is complete. Or he returns it to them; if he gave them, it was for them to have blood money for retaliation, enabling them to take retaliation, or if he had wealth, he gave them their wealth, or honor, he said: Permit me. If it is not feasible that they permit him, or he fears that if he informs them about the honor there will be matters of greater danger, then he seeks forgiveness for them and supplicates for them to the extent he thinks he has given them their right. And this is sufficient, if Allah wills. Yes.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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