Solat of an injured person

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Religious and spiritual activities and expression is one of the activities outlines under Instrumental Activities of Daily Living as outlined in the 3rd edition of "Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain & Process". The document also state the following for the definition of religious and spiritual activities and expression:

"Participating in religion, “an organized system of beliefs, practices, rituals, and symbols designed to facilitate closeness to the sacred or transcendent” (Moreira-Almeida & Koenig, 2006, p. 844), and engaging in activities that allow a sense of connectedness to something larger than oneself or that are especially meaningful, such as taking time out to play with a child, engaging in activities in nature, and helping others in need (Spencer, Davidson, & White, 1997)"

For a muslim, one of the main religious or spiritual activities is Solat (Pray). Solat is performed 5 times a day, or more if they want to. To start off, before Solat is performed, Muslim will have to perform Wudhu', which includes application of water on certain area of the body. Then, the solat is performed, which involves a lot of physical movement. 

However, Islam have outlined other ways to perform Solat, according to a person's ability or capability. If your clients have injuries that may hinder the application of water on certain body parts or moving certain joints required for Solat, the following are the link of documents that may be of help. These documents are in Malay, and it was published by Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia (JAKIM) or Department of Islamic Development Malaysia

The first one is the complete document by JAKIM that include the ways for patient to clean and perform Solat. The link is here. 

The second link is a booklet that shows the summarized version of the longer document above regarding the ways for patient to perform Solat. It may be a supporting material for your education session with the clients. For the link, click here. 

If you have any inquiries regarding this, I highly suggest you to voice it out at JAKIM's website here or on their Facebook page here. 

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