Is it obligatory to make up the prayers and fasts of one who abandoned them and then repented to Allah?
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Question:
A listener from Yemen, Sayyid Hadi, sent a question saying: I am a young man of twenty-four years old. I started praying a few months ago after Allah guided me, and praise be to Allah. Do I have to make up the fasts and prayers I missed? And how is that done?
Answer:
It is obligatory for you to maintain fasting and prayer from the time you repented to Allah the Exalted. Repentance wipes out what came before it, and it is not obligatory for you to make up what you missed, according to the correct opinion of the scholars, because repentance wipes out what came before it, and because you were not on the religion when you intentionally abandoned prayer. So when you repented to Allah, you entered Islam anew. Yes.
A listener from Yemen, Sayyid Hadi, sent a question saying: I am a young man of twenty-four years old. I started praying a few months ago after Allah guided me, and praise be to Allah. Do I have to make up the fasts and prayers I missed? And how is that done?
Answer:
It is obligatory for you to maintain fasting and prayer from the time you repented to Allah the Exalted. Repentance wipes out what came before it, and it is not obligatory for you to make up what you missed, according to the correct opinion of the scholars, because repentance wipes out what came before it, and because you were not on the religion when you intentionally abandoned prayer. So when you repented to Allah, you entered Islam anew. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل يجب القضاء على من ترك الصلاة والصيام، ثم تاب إلى الله؟ الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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