{"id":1182,"date":"2019-06-19T15:14:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T13:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2019-06-19T15:14:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T13:14:42","slug":"can-a-pregnant-woman-sit-and-perform-salaah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1182","title":{"rendered":"Can a pregnant woman sit and perform Salaah?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Can a pregnant woman sit and perform Salaah?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. Assalamu alaykum I would like to know the ruling on a woman sitting to read salaah in the latter stages of her pregnancy? Is it allowed?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> In general, a pregnant woman is not exempt from standing and performing Salaah. However, if a pregnant woman experiences extreme difficulty in making Qiyaam (standing) and\/or Ruku and Sajdah, then she may sit and perform Salaah, irrespective if this occurs during the early or later stages of pregnancy. <strong>(Tahtaawi Ala Maraaqil Falaah 1\/400\/1)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Allah Ta\u2019ala Knows Best<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mufti Ismaeel Bassa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>themufti.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can a pregnant woman sit and perform Salaah?\u00a0 Q. Assalamu alaykum I would like to know the ruling on a woman sitting to read salaah in<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-laws-of-women","category-salah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1183,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions\/1183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}