What is the ruling on one who prays while in a state of major ritual impurity out of shyness from people

Question : This questioner is Egyptian and resides in Riyadh. He says: I am asking about a person who performs wudu, enters the mosque, and prays the rawatib and the obligatory prayer, knowing before he performs wudu that he is in a state of major ritual impurity. What drove him to do this was the fear that people would know he had abandoned the obligatory prayer, and the tightness of time. What is the ruling on this? May you be rewarded.

Answer : Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and I send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and his Companions, and upon those who follow them with excellence until the Day of Judgment. His act is haram (forbidden) and among the major sins: to pray while in a state of major ritual impurity out of fear of people. In fact, some scholars say that if a person prays while in a state of ritual impurity, knowing that he is in that state, he becomes a disbeliever, may Allah protect us from that. This man must repent to Allah the Exalted and Majestic for what he did, and he must fear Allah alone, for Allah is more worthy of being feared. He should rectify what is between him and his Lord. When a person rectifies what is between him and his Lord, Allah rectifies what is between him and people.
He is also required to repeat the prayers he prayed without performing ghusl. They remain a debt upon him.
The advice for him and those like him is to fear Allah the Exalted and Majestic for their own sake, and not to fear people more than they fear Allah the Exalted and Majestic.
Indeed, Allah the Exalted said to His Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him):