Losing cousciousness while praying

27-5-2001 | IslamWeb

Question:

If anyone, while praying became affected by "Jinn" what should he do? What do you suggest?

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Answer:

Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds; and blessings and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon all his Family and Companions.
All the scholars are agreed that losing consciousness because of madness nullify Wudu. They are also agreed that being sane is a precondition for the validity of the prayer. But the scholars disagreed about whether the person should in this case make up for the missed prayers or not. The prevailing opinion is that if the person recovers his consciousness before the fixed time of that prayer has passed he should pray it then and if he does not recover before the time of that prayer has passed, he should then make it up anytime he recovers as this prayer is now a debt on him.
On the other hand, if this madness starts before the time of the prayer and continues until the time of the prayer has passed, he is not then asked to make up for that prayer as it was mandatory on him at that fixed time only. The evidence for this is the Hadith reported by Ahmad that the Prophet said: "The pen is lifted (prevented from writing anything) of three people: the sleeping person until he wakes up, the mad person until he recovers his reason and the child until he gets mature".
Allah knows best.