Answered by: Shaykh Ahmed Bin Mohamed Umarji
Question:
A lady has strokes, parts of her brain are dead, she is bedridden and sometimes recognizes family and sometimes not. Does she still have to read salah? Sometimes she’s aware and sometimes not What does the family do
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Answer:
If a person is unable to indicate with his head for more than five prayers and still maintains his understanding of communication, then he is not required to make up the prayers.1
If she loses all consciousness and perception – and this condition lasts continuously for one day or more – then there is no qada salah for her and no fidyah.2
In the case you mentioned, she is not responsible for prayer or compensation.
Only Allah knows best
Written by Shaykh Ahmed Bin Mohamed Umarji
Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah
Darul Ifta Birmingham
1 Nurul Idah, Page 229 , Wesam Charkawi
2 Fatawa Darul Uloom Zakariyya Volume 2 Page 758 Zam Zam Publishers