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14. He hath exempted from this those who are weak from illness or age # 10 |
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The exemption of those who are weak due to illness or
advanced age from offering the Obligatory Prayers and from
fasting is explained in Questions and Answers. Bahá’u’lláh
indicates that in “time of ill-health it is not permissible to observe
these obligations” (Q and A 93). He defines old age, in this
context, as being from seventy (Q and A 74). In answer to a
question, Shoghi Effendi has clarified that people who attain
the age of seventy are exempt, whether or not they are weak.
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