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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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If one abandons prayer and fasting out of negligence, then Allah guides him, does he make up the previous prayers and fasts?

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, if one abandons prayer out of negligence and then Allah guides him, does he make up the previous prayers? And does the ruling apply to fasting in Ramadan if he abandons it?

Answer:
As for fasting in Ramadan, if he abandons it, he must make up the fasts without doubt; nothing is dropped from him. But as for prayer, if he abandons it intentionally, then according to the most precise scholars, this constitutes major disbelief (shirk akbar). He should repent to Allah and maintain the prayer in the future, because he has entered Islam anew. As for the majority who say that he does not commit the disbelief that expels one from the religion, then he makes up the prayers with them; if he repents, he makes up the prayers he abandoned. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [389 -3022] من ترك الصلاة والصيام تهاونا ثم هداه الله فهل يقضي الصلوات والصيام السابقة؟ — youtube.com

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