What is the response to the claim: Since abandoning the prayer is disbelief, why do you not order him to pronounce the two testimonies of faith and renew his marriage contract?

Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner asks: What is the answer to the doubt that says, if the one who abandons the prayer is a disbeliever, why do you not order him to pronounce the two testimonies of faith and renew his marriage contract, since he has become a disbeliever?

Answer:
These are procedures before the judge. These are procedures; we mention the general ruling and the general legal ruling. We do not mean a specific individual. As for the specific individual, he must be brought before the judge. If he does not repent to Allah, the judge takes these procedures with him. So there is a difference between the specific individual and the general ruling. Yes, abandoning the prayer out of laziness and persisting in that is disbelief. But for a specific person who abandons the prayer, he must be brought before the judge in order to apply the legal ruling to him. And who judges except the judge? And who executes it?
Except the ruler, by the order of the judge. The procedures have a reference point. As for the general legal ruling, its reference point is the scholars; they are the ones who explain this to the people. Yes.