Q & A Shaykh Salih al Fawzan, my Grand Mother’s Prayer is Wrong, is there a Sin upon Her and How do we Help Her?


 Q & A Shaykh Salih al Fawzan, my Grand Mother’s Prayer is  Wrong is there a Sin upon her and how do will help her?


Q: My maternal grandmother, she prays her five prayers that are obligatory upon her but with neglect is in her Salah. Her Salah is incorrect from the beginning to the end of the Salah. She doesn’t make ruku sometimes, she doesn’t recite Tashahood and read the Fatihah in the place of Tashahood. With the addition, she makes Tasleem at the end of each ruku, and this is from the thing that she does and we’re not pleased with what she does.  Until my oldest brother made it clear that her Salah is incorrect, when he responds to the action she insults us and shame us. She cries, and when we teach her Salah the correct way, she is not able to learn it the correct way. Because she fixated to praying Salah how she’s accustomed praying (incorrectly). Is there any sin on her and is there anything obligatory upon us, and what do we do?


A: This woman is not excluded from one of the two cases. The first case is that, if it is that her case is
Mental dysfunction and she doesn’t understand what is said to her. So in this case there no blame against her for the statement of Allah the Most High:

‏{‏فَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ مَا اسْتَطَعْتُمْ‏}‏ ‏[‏سورة التغابن‏:‏ آية 16‏]‏‏

” Fear Allah as much as you can” 

So there is no blame against her (sin), long as if you made it clear to her the mistakes, and she is not able to comprehend so there is no blame against her if Allah wills. Because this is the limit of her capability.

Second case: either she has a sound mental function, and she performs mistakes out of ignorance, for there is no excuse for her. Because of the ignoramus if there a person present to make him understand and teach him then cease his excuse, and it’s obligatory for him to take the way to correctness.

So it is obligatory upon all of you to repeat the ways of understanding (in teaching) and encouraging her to fear Allah, and He doesn’t free her from blame, and that He enlightens all of you (in your efforts), if she straightens up ( does salah correctly), so al hamdulilah (all praise is due to Allah). If not indeed you fulfill your obligation and we ask Allah to guide her.

 


Translated by Abul Baraa Muhammad Amreeki

 


 


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السؤال
ـ إن جدتي لوالدي تصلي الصلوات الخمس المفروضة عليها كاملة ولكن للأسف إن صلاتها خاطئة من أولها إلى آخرها حيث أنها لا تركع بعض الأحيان ولا تقرأ التحيات وتقرأ الفاتحة بدل التحيات بالإضافة أنها تسلم بعد كل ركعة وهذا شيء مما تفعله ولم نرض بما تفعل حيث قام أخي الكبير بتوضيح أن صلاتها خاطئة وكان رد الفعل أن شتمتنا وفضحتنا وأخذت تبكي وحتى لو علمناها الصلاة الصحيحة لا تستطيع أن تتعلمها لأنها تعودت  على صلاتها‏.‏ فهل عليها إثم في ذلك وهل يجب علينا شيء وماذا نفعل‏؟‏

الجواب

هذه المرأة لا تخلو من إحدى الحالتين‏:‏ الأولى‏:‏ أن تكون حالتها العقلية مختلة ولا تفهم ما يقال لها فهذه لا حرج عليها لقوله تعالى‏:‏ ‏{‏فَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ مَا اسْتَطَعْتُمْ‏}‏ ‏[‏سورة التغابن‏:‏ آية 16‏]‏‏.‏ فلا حرج عليها مادام أنكم بينتم لها الخطأ ولم تستطع أن تفهم فلا حرج عليها إن شاء الله لأن هذا هو منتهى قدرتها أما إذا كانت عقليتها سليمة وإنما فعلت هذا عن جهل فهذه لا عذر لها لأن الجاهل إذا وجد من يفهمه ويعلمه زال عذره ووجب عليه أن يأخذ طريق الصواب فالواجب عليكم أن تكرروا طريق التفهيم وأن تخوفوها بالله وأن هذا لا يبري ذمتها هذا ما يسعكم فإن استقامت فالحمد لله وإلا فقد أديتم الواجب واسألوا الله لها الهداية‏.

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