What is your advice for one who is negligent in his prayer and feels a sense of tightness whenever he intends to pray?
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Question:
This is a woman asking, and she says that she has spent most of her life in America, and she was negligent in her prayer, and she feels severe tightness whenever she wants to pray. So she asked one of her mother’s relatives, and he told her, “Do not pray as long as you feel this tightness.” He says: What must I do now?
Answer:
It is obligatory for her to repent to Allah and to be consistent in her prayer, and to leave behind the obsessions and anxieties that have passed, if she repents, Allah will accept her repentance. Yes.
This is a woman asking, and she says that she has spent most of her life in America, and she was negligent in her prayer, and she feels severe tightness whenever she wants to pray. So she asked one of her mother’s relatives, and he told her, “Do not pray as long as you feel this tightness.” He says: What must I do now?
Answer:
It is obligatory for her to repent to Allah and to be consistent in her prayer, and to leave behind the obsessions and anxieties that have passed, if she repents, Allah will accept her repentance. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما نصيحتكم لمن تهاون في صلاته وشعر بضيق كلما همّ ليصلي؟ لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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