Assalamu Alaikum Warahmatuallahi Wabarakatuh.
In the name of allah(swt), the most gracious & the most merciful.
First of all, it’s a great thing that your son prays regularly at home. But as “deepblue” mentioned…It is not a geniune excuse to miss prayers just because of the situation at hand. This is the influence of Shaytan and he wins the battle with your son and many more like him in the non-muslim countries. The solution…
To do wudoo in the washroom is great. Why you may ask? Because others see him doing it and he would be asked as to why he is doing such a action. There he is giving da’wah to the non-muslims. Something which is obligatory for us muslims to do.
Now the solution is that he can do Masah. I am sure “deepblue” had goo intentions when he recommended his ideas but those are only his ideas and nothing more. That is not what the Shariah says. Islam is a very easy religion and allah (swt) says that I know the hardship of my followers and I will not make it hard for them.
Some things you would hear me say would sound like I am a shiaa but I am a sunni muslim too. I happen to know a little bit more than what has been commented about this topic right here.
First of all, your son can wear his shoes and pray. Everyone can do so. Rasoll allah (saaw) said that be different from the Jews & the Christians therefore wear your shoes and pray. This may sound odd but ask any non-hanafi uleema and he will tell you so.
Second of all, what your son can do is very easy. I am sure he takes a shower before going to work so his intention should be of ghusul. If he doesnt take a shower then he can just make wudoo. After this, he should wear his socks & shoes. So whenever its time to pray, all he has to do is
“WIPE HIS SHOES FROM THE TOP ONLY”. He does the regular wudoo and just wipe wet hands over the top of his shoes. Not the bottom (talwaa) but ONLY the top part of it. That would be his mas’aah.
The travellers can do mas’aah upto three days and the regular people can do it for one whole day. This criteria is only when they had wudoo/ghusul before wearing the socks. Until they dont take off their socks, they can do mas’aah. 3 days for travellers & 1 day for residents.
If you have any questions then you can email me. My email can be found here in mmy profile. Thanks. I hope I was of help and as u can see this message had to be long to make the point.
I am sure that the ideal solution is to do proper wudoo in washroom, but since the boy is uncomfortable with the act, it'll be too much to expect him to start doing that with the niyat of tableegh.
In time we all grow used to things. Inshaallah so will he.
Wearing one's shoes and praying, has nothing to do with the boy's predicament either. Seems to me that you were just trying to make a point rather than talk about the situation at hand. By the way, the view of ahl-e-sunna is that it's both mustahib and practical to take off shoes when praying. "Can" doesn't translate to "have to" or "should" in this case.
One thing I noticed, that what I wrote about massah, could have been interpreted as I was talking about 'talwa'. I am sorry about the vagueness. Yes, it's done on the top part.
However personally I am not aware of any ruling that legitimises massah outside the cases of travelling or injury/wound.
What I have mentioned above you can ask any other al'em if you do not agree with it. The opinion of ahle-sunna does not matter when in a hadith it clearly states that the prophet (saaw) has allowed us to pray with the shoes on. As a matter of fact, it is a sunnah of the rasool )saaw) to do so.
Please do research on that and do not take my word and intrepret it. Like I said in my first post, ask anyone except the hanafi uleema.
Its not out of context. By telling you this, you can see that the boy does not have to take his shoes off in order to pray. Islam is made easy by allah (swt) and not hard as many modern day so called mullah's preach it.
You are indeed very uptight. I am not criticizing the hanafi fiqh or anything but the pakistani/indian/bangali hanafi maulvis would never allow you to pary with your shoes on. But as a matter of fact, this is a saheeh/sound hadith of the prophet (saaw).
The point here is he can just wipe his shoes with a wet hand and go pray instead of taking of his shoes & his socks to make wud'oo.
Thanks & try to have an open mind deepblue when it comes to Islam.
First of all, my apologies for bringing back this topic from the dead.
Now homiD, do you think a boy who has problems taking off his shoes in washroom, would pray in front of everyone ? And since he's in a secluded place, why can't he take his shoes off ?
Like I said, I don't understand, when someone drops in a point which has no relevance to the issue, but is there just for the sake of argument or for proving a point that has no bearing on the discussion.
It's exactly these small minor inconsequential bickerings that people with "closed" mind, like me, avoid to get into.