The ruling on making up the prayers that a Muslim intentionally left off
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Question:
May Allah reward you. This is one of the questions that came in. The questioner says: A person left off the prayer for a long period, about two years or more, and he has now repented from that and is maintaining the prayer. But the question is: What is the ruling on the prayers he left off? Is he required to make them up at intervals, since he is now making up those prayers? That is, when he prays one of the obligatory prayers, he prays the same obligatory prayer after finishing it, with the intention of making up those prayers he left off. Give us a ruling, may Allah reward you.
Answer:
There is scholarly disagreement on this issue, and it hinges on the one who left off the prayer intentionally but did not deny its obligation. As for the one who left off the prayer while denying its obligation, he is an outlier by consensus. If he is maintaining the prayer in the future, and what passed is that he is a disbeliever. But the image requires what came before it.
As for the one who acknowledges its obligation but left it off as a sin, this is a point of difference among the scholars. Some scholars hold that he makes them up, even if they are numerous, because in their view it does not constitute major disbelief; rather, it is major disbelief, so it suffices, but he does not do what is done in the prayer; he prays with the one who neglected it. This is not the work of the common people; he makes them up hurriedly in the present according to his capacity. He continues, and when he rests, meaning he repeats, he prays the prayers until he finishes them.
These two are in a group that hastens, and this is undoubtedly a true statement regarding the people's second opinion, which is the one being followed now, and it is the correct one, if Allah wills: that the one who leaves off the prayer intentionally is a disbeliever, even if he does not deny its obligation. Based on that, he does not make up what has passed, but he must maintain the prayer in the future.
As for what has passed, he would be a disbeliever. How can he pray while he is in a state of disbelief? This is the correct view, and it is the one being explained now in this land. May Allah reward you.
May Allah reward you. This is one of the questions that came in. The questioner says: A person left off the prayer for a long period, about two years or more, and he has now repented from that and is maintaining the prayer. But the question is: What is the ruling on the prayers he left off? Is he required to make them up at intervals, since he is now making up those prayers? That is, when he prays one of the obligatory prayers, he prays the same obligatory prayer after finishing it, with the intention of making up those prayers he left off. Give us a ruling, may Allah reward you.
Answer:
There is scholarly disagreement on this issue, and it hinges on the one who left off the prayer intentionally but did not deny its obligation. As for the one who left off the prayer while denying its obligation, he is an outlier by consensus. If he is maintaining the prayer in the future, and what passed is that he is a disbeliever. But the image requires what came before it.
As for the one who acknowledges its obligation but left it off as a sin, this is a point of difference among the scholars. Some scholars hold that he makes them up, even if they are numerous, because in their view it does not constitute major disbelief; rather, it is major disbelief, so it suffices, but he does not do what is done in the prayer; he prays with the one who neglected it. This is not the work of the common people; he makes them up hurriedly in the present according to his capacity. He continues, and when he rests, meaning he repeats, he prays the prayers until he finishes them.
These two are in a group that hastens, and this is undoubtedly a true statement regarding the people's second opinion, which is the one being followed now, and it is the correct one, if Allah wills: that the one who leaves off the prayer intentionally is a disbeliever, even if he does not deny its obligation. Based on that, he does not make up what has passed, but he must maintain the prayer in the future.
As for what has passed, he would be a disbeliever. How can he pray while he is in a state of disbelief? This is the correct view, and it is the one being explained now in this land. May Allah reward you.
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