Advice for those who are negligent in congregational prayer and its time
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Question:
Your Eminence, father, in these days many people have become negligent regarding the matter of prayer. Some people may leave the congregational prayer without an excuse, and sometimes they delay it past its time, also without an excuse, and sometimes they even let the time for it pass. So what is your advice for such people?
Answer:
As for the one who does not pray with the congregation, he is abandoning an obligatory duty and commits a sin. His prayer is valid, but he sins by abandoning the obligation. Allah has made it obligatory for the Muslim, when he hears the call to prayer, to pray with the congregation and respond to the call. If he abandons that and prays alone or in his house, his prayer is valid, but he commits a sin by abandoning the obligation, which is attending the congregational prayer.
As for the one who deliberately delays the prayer past its time, it is not valid from him and is not accepted. It is not valid from him, and Allah the Exalted does not accept it. He must repent to Allah and maintain the prayer in its time. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Your Eminence, father, in these days many people have become negligent regarding the matter of prayer. Some people may leave the congregational prayer without an excuse, and sometimes they delay it past its time, also without an excuse, and sometimes they even let the time for it pass. So what is your advice for such people?
Answer:
As for the one who does not pray with the congregation, he is abandoning an obligatory duty and commits a sin. His prayer is valid, but he sins by abandoning the obligation. Allah has made it obligatory for the Muslim, when he hears the call to prayer, to pray with the congregation and respond to the call. If he abandons that and prays alone or in his house, his prayer is valid, but he commits a sin by abandoning the obligation, which is attending the congregational prayer.
As for the one who deliberately delays the prayer past its time, it is not valid from him and is not accepted. It is not valid from him, and Allah the Exalted does not accept it. He must repent to Allah and maintain the prayer in its time. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-016-الإيمان حقيقته أركانه شعبه ثمراته|صالح الفوزان|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:08:46)
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