If he refuses to take the medicine is his disobeying his father?
Question 1- I am an asthmatic patient. I normally go to hospital during the course of the year. They were giving me cortisone which had an effect on my bones. So I stopped taking it fearing that my health becomes worse, which made my father angry. Am I considered disobedient for this? 2- I suffer…
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2- I suffer from excessive gas, so I pass wind a lot. How shall I purify myself for prayers?
For these reasons I cannot walk a lot, and after I stopped taking the cortisone I became even more ill, so I was ordered by the doctor to stay at home. Thus I cannot go to the masjid a lot except for Friday prayer, Am I sinning?.
Praise be to Allah.
Firstly:
We ask Allaah to heal you
and reward you for what has befallen you.
Secondly:
If the medicine is harming
you and affecting your bones, then there is nothing wrong with stopping it,
because you do not have to take that which will harm you, whether it is
medicine or anything else. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah
be upon him) said: “There should be neither harming nor reciprocating harm.”
Narrated by Ahmad and Ibn Majaah (2341) and classed as saheeh by al-Albaani
in Saheeh Ibn Majaah.
But you should consult a
doctor about that, because the harm caused by not taking it may be greater
than the harm caused by taking it.
You should weigh up the
interests served by taking the medicine and its harmful effects, and the
harmful effects caused by not taking it.
If it is proven that the
medicine is harmful to you, then your refusing to take it is not
disobedience towards your father, because obedience is only required in that
which is good and proper, as the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah
be upon him) said: “Obedience is only in that which is good and proper.”
Narrated by al-Bukhaari (7257) and Muslim (1840).
Thirdly:
You should look for a
remedy for passing too much gas, so that you can perform the prayer with
proper focus and peace of mind with the congregation. If it is continuous
and does not stop for long enough for you to do wudoo’ and pray, then this
is called “wind incontinence”, and in that case it is sufficient for you to
do wudoo’ after the time for prayer begins, and pray the obligatory prayer
and whatever naafil prayers you want with that wudoo’, and it will not
matter if you pass wind even when you are praying.
But if the wind stops for
long enough for you to do wudoo’ and pray, then you must offer the prayer at
that time, even if that means that you do not pray in congregation in the
mosque.
Fourthly:
If going to the mosque will
harm you or is too difficult for you, there is nothing wrong with you
offering the prayer in your house, because Allaah says (interpretation of
the meaning):
“So keep your duty to
Allaah and fear Him as much as you can”
[al-Taghaabun 64:16]
“Allaah burdens not a
person beyond his scope”
[al-Baqarah 2:286]
Whenever you feel energetic
and strong, you can go to the mosque.
We ask Allaah to heal you
and make you well.
And Allaah knows best.
