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There is disagreement concerning covering the nakedness. Some hold that it is an obligatory element of prayer; others hold that it is not, but is instead a general obligation and a sunnah within prayer. Those who consider it an obligatory element of prayer require anyone who prays with their nakedness exposed, despite being able to cover it, to repeat the prayer even after its prescribed time has elapsed. Those who do not consider it an obligatory element require the prayer to be repeated only within its prescribed time.
The ruling on a woman looking at another woman’s thigh or navel is the same as that on a man looking at those parts of another man. What a woman may see of a non-mahram man—one not permanently forbidden to her in marriage—is governed by the same ruling as what a man may see of his female mahram relatives. This follows the position that a man does not wash the bodies of his female mahram relatives after death, just as women do not wash the body of a non-mahram man; this is the correct position. What a woman may see of her male mahram relatives is governed by the same ruling as what a man may see of another man. It has also been said that what a woman may see of a man is governed by the same ruling as what a man may see of a woman. Success comes from Allah Most High.
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Combining Two Prayers That Share a Time
Combining the two prayers that share a time—Zuhr and ‘Asr, or Maghrib and ‘Ishā’—during travel, illness, or rain is a concession that provides ease. Its permissibility is based on the established reports:
“The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, combined Zuhr and ‘Asr, and Maghrib and ‘Ishā’, during his journey to Tabūk.”
“One day he delayed the prayer, then came out and prayed Zuhr and ‘Asr together. He then went inside, came out, and prayed Maghrib and ‘Ishā’ together.”
“When he intended to travel by day, he would combine Zuhr and ‘Asr; and when he intended to travel by night, he would combine Maghrib and ‘Ishā’.”
It is also based on what has been related