ANSWER:

It’s totally prohibited to pretend to pray when you’re actually not praying! Some scholars have termed it as kufr!

Sheikh when I’m exempted from offering salah my mother asks me to pretend to follow my usual routine of offering salah. So is a menstruating woman supposed to pretend that she’s not menstruating and hide it from her brother and father? Is it like something that should be kept private?

Menstruation and post-natal bleeding, Prayer |