The ruling on making up the prayers of one who abandoned many prayers and then repented

Question:
May Allah reward you. If someone abandoned many prayers and then repented, does he have to make them up or not?

Answer:
The stronger and correct position is that he does not make them up; a sincere repentance along with maintaining the prayer is sufficient. Those who hold that he must make them up are the ones who say that he does not become a disbeliever—that the one who abandons the prayer is not a disbeliever, but rather a sinner. These are the ones who say he makes them up. As for those who rule that he has committed major shirk (associating partners with Allah), they say he repents to Allah anew and enters Islam anew, and this is the correct position.