The Father Who Abandons Prayer and the Prohibition of It
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: My father has abandoned prayer for many years; he has not bowed to Allah in a single rak'ah. He says: Some people argued with me and told me, “Do not declare your father a disbeliever, for doing so would make you undutiful to him.”
The Shaykh:
What Allah willed.
The questioner:
He says: What is your guidance, with Allah’s permission?
The Shaykh:
And his persistence in abandoning prayer is not dutifulness to him. This is not permissible; it is an evil, and it must be forbidden. It is not a matter of undutifulness to parents; it is a matter of enjoining good and forbidding evil. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: My father has abandoned prayer for many years; he has not bowed to Allah in a single rak'ah. He says: Some people argued with me and told me, “Do not declare your father a disbeliever, for doing so would make you undutiful to him.”
The Shaykh:
What Allah willed.
The questioner:
He says: What is your guidance, with Allah’s permission?
The Shaykh:
And his persistence in abandoning prayer is not dutifulness to him. This is not permissible; it is an evil, and it must be forbidden. It is not a matter of undutifulness to parents; it is a matter of enjoining good and forbidding evil. Yes.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 20-01-1435هـ — alfawzan.live (1:03:13)
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