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Question 25: Is it permissible to perform the prayers when one has blood on his body or clothes in two different places where each one is around the size of a dirham? Answer: The prayer would not be correct if both of the spots of blood equal more than a dirham. Question 26: Is it permissible to pray with gloves or shoes, even if they are spiritually clean? Answer: There is no problem, but one’s big toe must reach the ground while performing prostration.

Question 27: What ruling does glasses whose frame is made from a substance mixed with gold worn by a man in prayer? Answer: If it is gold and used for beauty it would be forbidden for a man to wear and it would invalidate his prayer. Question 28: Suppose a sick person started his prayer standing up and then in the middle of his prayer he felt light-headed and weak. Is it permissible for him to perform the rest of his prayer sitting or lying down?

Answer: There is no problem in it if he is forced, but if there is time remaining and he is able to perform the prayers standing later during the time of prayer, he should perform them then. Question 29: Are the prayers of an unconscious person who does not have any feeling, movement or thought excused? If he dies does his inheritor have to make up the prayers that were missed in this state?

Answer: An unconscious person does not have to pray nor does he have to make up the prayers he missed unless he purposely did something to become unconscious. Question 30: The bodies of some of patients in a hospital are spiritually unclean due to injections and other reasons and other patients wear clothes that have become spiritually unclean. How should they pray if they cannot make themselves spiritually clean nor do they have access to spiritually clean clothing?

Answer: If one is unable to perform prayers in a spiritually clean state he must perform them in a spiritually unclean state. There are different scenarios regarding the clothes, if he is unable to remove them then he must perform prayers in his spiritually unclean clothing. Question 31: Is one able to perform prayers with external or internal hemorrhoids? Answer: One may perform the prayers with the blood from hemorrhoids, even if it is internal. Previous…