Making Up Prayers Left Behind in Childhood
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Question:
The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, if a person left off the prayer in his youth, Honorable Shaykh, does he have to make them up now, remembering those prayers he left off?
Answer:
If he left them off in his youth before reaching puberty, he owes no prayer; it is only a voluntary prayer in his case. As for after reaching puberty, if he left them off intentionally, then repentance to Allah is sufficient for him. Because by leaving them off intentionally while he is sane and of age, he becomes a disbeliever. And one repents from disbelief to Allah, and he maintains the prayer in the future of his life, and this is sufficient. Repentance wipes out what came before it. Yes.
The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, if a person left off the prayer in his youth, Honorable Shaykh, does he have to make them up now, remembering those prayers he left off?
Answer:
If he left them off in his youth before reaching puberty, he owes no prayer; it is only a voluntary prayer in his case. As for after reaching puberty, if he left them off intentionally, then repentance to Allah is sufficient for him. Because by leaving them off intentionally while he is sane and of age, he becomes a disbeliever. And one repents from disbelief to Allah, and he maintains the prayer in the future of his life, and this is sufficient. Repentance wipes out what came before it. Yes.
Source
قناة «مؤسسة الدعوة الخيرية»، فتاوى على الهواء 17-08-1434هـ - الفوزان — youtube.com (45:04)
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