What Do I Do If I Have Few Minutes to Perform a Fard Prayer?

Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel

Question

If I wake up and there is like around 30 minutes left to pray, I go and urinate and urine drops continue for around 15-20 minutes, now I will have around 5 or so minutes to perform wudu and pray, what do I do?

Answer

In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful and Compassionate 

You should perform the minimal wudu, by just doing the fard washing of the limbs, and perform the fard prayer by doing the minimal recitations and supplications in the two fard rakat of fajr.

I pray this helps with your questions.

[Mawlana] Ilyas Patel
Checked and Approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

Mawlana Ilyas Patel is a traditionally-trained scholar who has studied within UK, India, Pakistan, Syria, Jordan and Turkey.

He started his early education in UK. He went onto complete hifz of Qur’an in India, then enrolled into an Islamic seminary in UK where he studied the secular and Alimiyyah sciences. He then travelled to Karachi, Pakistan.

He has been an Imam in Rep of Ireland for a number of years. He has taught hifz of the Qur’an, Tajwid, Fiqh and many other Islamic sciences to both children and adults onsite and online extensively in UK and Ireland. He was teaching at a local Islamic seminary for 12 years in the UK where he was a librarian and a teacher of Islamic sciences.

He currently resides in UK with his wife. His personal interest is love of books and gardening.