Book of Prayer
Introduction
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Book of Prayer
The prayer is obligatory for every legally accountable Muslim, except a menstruating woman or one experiencing postpartum bleeding. Anyone whose consciousness has lapsed through sleep, fainting, intoxication, or the like⦗1⦘ must make up the missed prayers. The prayer of a madman or a non-Muslim is invalid; yet if a non-Muslim performs it, he is deemed a Muslim by legal ruling.

A child is instructed to pray at the age of seven and is struck for neglecting it at ten. If he reaches puberty during the prayer, or after performing it while its time still remains, he must repeat it.

It is forbidden to delay a prayer beyond its prescribed time, except for someone who intends to combine two prayers, or for one who is occupied⦗2⦘ with obtaining a required prerequisite that he will secure shortly.

Whoever denies the obligation of prayer becomes an unbeliever, and the same applies to one who abandons it out of negligence after being summoned by the imam—or his deputy—yet persists until the time of the next prayer has become too tight for him to perform it. He is not executed, however, until he has been called to repent three separate times in either case.