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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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My husband does not pray in the mosque, so what do you advise me to do regarding my husband?

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Question:
She says in this question: There is a woman who is committed to the law of Allah and married to a husband who is good in his treatment and dutiful to his parents, but he prays at home even though he is a neighbor of the mosque. She has advised him, and she has advised him often, to go to the mosque, but he makes excuses for it, which are weak, knowing that she has no one besides Allah but this husband. What should she do? And does she bear sin if he does not go to perform the prayers in the mosque? Guide us.

Answer:
His abandoning the prayer in the mosque without an excuse is a great deficiency, and the abandonment of a great obligatory duty. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) made it obligatory for the Muslims to pray in the mosques, and he threatened those who lag behind in the prayer in the mosques without an excuse, and described them as hypocrites. He said, may the prayer and peace be upon him:
The most burdensome prayers for the hypocrites are the 'Isha' prayer and the Fajr prayer. If only they knew what (reward) there is in them, they would come to them even if they had to crawl.تثقل الصلاة على المنافقين صلاة العشاء وصلاة الفجر، ولو يعلمون ما فيهما لأتوهما ولو حبوا.
Sunan Ibn Majah 797Sahih (Darussalam)

And he (peace and blessings be upon him) intended to burn down the houses of those who lag behind in the congregational prayer with fire. Abdullah ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "And indeed, I saw us, and none lagged behind it except a known hypocrite." And a blind man came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) seeking his permission.
To pray in his home because of the hardship he faces on his way to the mosque. So the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to him: "Do you hear the call to prayer?" He said: "Yes." He said: "Then answer it, for I find no dispensation for you." And in the hadith, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
as saying, “If anyone hears the summonsقال من سمع النداء
Mishkat al-Masabih 1077
does not answer it, he has no prayer except one who has an excuseلم يجب فلا صلاة له إلا من عذر
Sahih Ibn Hibban 10:352
and so on from the hadiths. So this man must repent to Allah the Exalted and Majestic, and he must pray with the congregation. And it is obligatory for the woman asking to advise him, and to repeat the advice to him, perhaps Allah will guide him. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، زوجي لا يصلي في المسجد، فبماذا توجهونني نحو زوجي؟ الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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