Advice to the youth who stay up late and abandon the prayer

Question:
This is Abu Marwan from Abha. He says: We would like Your Excellency the Shaykh to give advice to the youth and some families who stay up late in this summer until the end of the night. Before Fajr, they sleep and abandon performing the prayer at its time. They also tire their parents by not responding to the call to perform the prayer.

Answer:
It is not permissible for them to do that. It is not permissible to stay up late in a way that delays the Fajr prayer from its time with the congregation, because it is an obligatory duty for the Muslim at its time and with the congregation. Their parents must make them adhere to the congregational prayer and be firm with them, and not leave them alone. “Order your children to pray.” The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: So the parents have a responsibility toward their children to make them obey Allah, and the foremost of that, after tawhid (the oneness of Allah), is the prayer at its time with the congregation. Yes.

The presenter:
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