Missing Jumu`ah and Congregational Prayers to Serve His Sick Father
1. It is not permissible for you to not pray Jumu`ah, if there is someone who can take care of your father while you go to the mosque. If there is no one, then you are excused for not going to the mosque and you can pray Dhuhr with him instead.
2. You should pray in congregation in the mosque, so long as someone else can be with your sick father while you go to the mosque.
3. There is nothing wrong with wearing gloves when removing impurity from a sick father because touching the `Awrah is prohibited.
4. It is not permissible to look at your father’s `Awrah except in the case of necessity.
5. If your father is aware of the prayer, then it is obligatory for him and it is not permissible for him to not pray.
6. It is not permissible for you to not pray Jumu`ah, if there is someone who can take care of your sick father while you go to the mosque. If there is no one, then you are excused for not going to the mosque and you can pray Dhuhr with him instead.
7. It is permissible for the sick person to put together Dhuhr and `Asr, and Maghrib and `Isha’, at the time of the earlier or later prayer so as to ward off hardship.
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