How Should Someone Paralyze Pray?

I pray this finds you in the best of states.

According to the Hanafi school if the sick person cannot pray standing they will pray sitting on the ground with prostration.  If they are unable to pray sitting, they will pray lying down with head movements. And if they are unable to pray with head movements, then the duty to pray is delayed for them. If the duration of this inability lasts for more than five prayers then they don’t even have to make up these prayers. This is the fatwa position in the Hanafi school. [Marghinani, Hidaya; Ibn Abidin, Radd al-Muhtar]

Allah, Most High, has said: “Allah does not desire to make any hardship for you.” [5.6]

And Allah knows best.

Wassalam

[Ustadh] Sufyan Qufi

Ustadh Sufyan Qufi is an advanced seeker of knowledge, originally from Algeria, who grew up in France. He began searching far and wide for answers to the fundamental questions of life and was disappointed at the answers he found.

Then he connected with various traditional teachers and gradually connected with SeekersGuidance. He embarked on his journey of learning through the various teachers at SeekersGuidance, including his mentor Shaykh Faraz Rabbani.

He studied numerous texts in Islamic Law, Theology, Hadith, and other areas with Shaykh Faraz Rabbani and other teachers, including Shaykh Abdurrahman al-Sha‘ar, Shaykh Ali Hani, and others.

He is an active instructor at SeekersGuidance and answers questions through the SeekersGuidance Answers Service.