Excuses that permit missing congregational prayer in the mosque

A question about excuses that permit missing congregational prayer in the mosque, in which Jordan's General Iftaa Department answered that missing congregation is permitted for general excuses such as hardship-causing rain, strong wind at night, mud, and severe heat or cold, and for personal excuses such as illness, hunger and fear. ¹

The questioner asked which excuses permit missing congregational prayer in the mosque. ¹

The Department answered that missing congregational prayer in the mosque is permitted for general excuses, such as rain that makes going out a hardship, strong wind at night, deep mud that would soil one, hot wind, and severe heat or cold. ¹ It listed personal excuses, such as illness that makes walking as hard as walking in rain, severe drowsiness, evident hunger and thirst, needing to relieve oneself or pass wind, and fear for one's life, a limb or its use, one's property or one's honour, among other excuses. ¹

Jordan's General Iftaa Department published this fatwa on aliftaa.jo as no. 4262, dated 17 February 2026. ¹ The museum records this text as a historical document attributed to the body or scholar that issued it; it issues no ruling of its own.