Missing Salah For A Long Time Due To Illness
Does a God-fearing Muslim need a legal reason to ask for Allah’s forgiveness? Whoever adopts this attitude is reflecting his arrogance in front of Al-Mighty. Shorterning and/or combining of Salah ( almost in all circumstances ) is done when one is incapacitated by the circumstances to offer complete Salah or to offer on time, for which one can say that its not their fault so they are not gonna ask for forgiveness and neither are they gonna makeup for their salah because they didn’t choose such circumstances. It is one’s incapacity which allows for this relaxation to pray at a later time, not one’s consciousness or unconsciousness. The right approach is to makeup for the missed Salah, whether one was conscious or unconscious during that time, to the best of one’s ability and to ask for forgiveness as well. And if the number is too big to even count, then Nafil Salah strategy can also be adopted. And if a person , despite trying is even unable to complete the number, then one’s continuous repenting will do the work hopefully.