The ruling on boycotting one who abandons prayer and whether it falls under severing family ties
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Question:
May Allah reward you. This questioner, Abu Haytham from Makkah, says: My brothers are abandoning the prayer, so I advised them, and it was not out of ignorance of its ruling, but rather out of negligence and deliberate intent. So I boycotted them, but my father calls that severing family ties, and says that this is not permissible. So what do you advise us? May you all be rewarded.
Answer:
Yes, the one who deliberately abandons the prayer becomes a disbeliever if he abandons the prayer deliberately, persists in it, and does not repent, then he becomes a disbeliever according to the correct view, even if he does not deny its obligation. And it is not permissible to be affectionate toward a disbeliever or to greet him with the salam. Allah the Exalted said:[Al-Mujadila 58:22] This is not severing family ties, but rather it is love for the sake of Allah and hatred for the sake of Allah, which is the strongest bond of faith. Yes.
May Allah reward you. This questioner, Abu Haytham from Makkah, says: My brothers are abandoning the prayer, so I advised them, and it was not out of ignorance of its ruling, but rather out of negligence and deliberate intent. So I boycotted them, but my father calls that severing family ties, and says that this is not permissible. So what do you advise us? May you all be rewarded.
Answer:
Yes, the one who deliberately abandons the prayer becomes a disbeliever if he abandons the prayer deliberately, persists in it, and does not repent, then he becomes a disbeliever according to the correct view, even if he does not deny its obligation. And it is not permissible to be affectionate toward a disbeliever or to greet him with the salam. Allah the Exalted said:
You will not find a people who believe in Allah and the Last Day having affection for those who oppose Allah and His Messenger, even if they were their fathers or their sons or their brothers or their kindred
لَّا تَجِدُ قَوْمًا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ يُوَادُّونَ مَنْ حَادَّ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ وَلَوْ كَانُوا آبَاءَهُمْ أَوْ أَبْنَاءَهُمْ أَوْ إِخْوَانَهُمْ أَوْ عَشِيرَتَهُمْ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 6534- حكم هجر تارك الصلاة وهل يدخل في القطيعة - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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