Purity: Ruling on Missed Prayers and Fasts Due to Ignorance of Ghusl
Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei
Purity: Ruling on Missed Prayers and Fasts Due to Ignorance of Ghusl
English:
Question #193:
Someone reaches the age of shar‘ī puberty but does not know that ghusl is obligatory and how to make it; and in this way he passes about ten years before coming to know about taqlīd and that ghusl is obligatory? What is his duty concerning qaḍā’ of his fasts and prayers?
Answer #193:
It is obligatory for him to do qaḍā’ of the prayers offered in the state of janābah. As far as fasting is concerned, then if one doubts as to whether remaining junub invalidates the fast or not and fasts in the state of janābah, his fast, according to the obligatory caution, is void (1) and he must perform its qaḍā’. However, if one is certain that remaining junub will not invalidate the fast and fasts on such grounds, his fast is alright, yet observing caution in doing its qaḍā’ is good.
-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Rules of an Invalid Ghusl