What is the ruling on those who neglect the prayer?
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Question:
May Allah reward you. The questioner asks: Is there a difference between the one who abandons the prayer entirely, and the one who prays sometimes and leaves it off sometimes? And what is the ruling on one who is like that and dies while leaving it off?
Answer:
We have mentioned this. We said that the one who abandons the prayer completely and the one who leaves off some of it and prays some of it are the same. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says:[Al-Baqarah 2:238] He did not say, "Guard some of the prayers," but rather He said: [Al-Baqarah 2:238] And He said: [Al-Ma'arij 70:23] As for the one who prays at one time and leaves it off at another, he is not one who is constant. Is he not one who is not constant in the prayer? Yes.
May Allah reward you. The questioner asks: Is there a difference between the one who abandons the prayer entirely, and the one who prays sometimes and leaves it off sometimes? And what is the ruling on one who is like that and dies while leaving it off?
Answer:
We have mentioned this. We said that the one who abandons the prayer completely and the one who leaves off some of it and prays some of it are the same. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says:
Maintain with care the [obligatory] prayers
حَافِظُوا عَلَى الصَّلَوَاتِMaintain with care the [obligatory] prayers
حَافِظُوا عَلَى الصَّلَوَاتِThose who are constant in their prayer
الَّذِينَ هُمْ عَلَىٰ صَلَاتِهِمْ دَائِمُونَ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم الساهون عن الصلاة؟ للشيخ الفوزان — youtube.com
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