Advice for one who neglects the prayers and the Friday prayer

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Question:
The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. I have a brother who is negligent regarding the five daily prayers; he prays at some times, and his prayer is also outside its time. He is also negligent regarding the Friday prayer, and Fridays repeat for him and he does not attend. He asks: What is your advice to me and to him regarding this?

Answer:
This is not a Muslim. The one who deliberately abandons the obligatory prayer and the Friday prayer, deliberately doing so and it repeats from him, this is not a Muslim. It is not according to his whim, if he wants he prays and if he wants he does not pray. His prayers that he performed are not valid. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, said:

Those who are constant in their prayer

الَّذِينَ هُمْ عَلَىٰ صَلَاتِهِمْ دَائِمُونَ

[Al-Ma'arij 70:23]

Maintain with care the [obligatory] prayers and [in particular] the middle prayer

حَافِظُوا عَلَى الصَّلَوَاتِ وَالصَّلَاةِ الْوُسْطَىٰ

[Al-Baqarah 2:238]

Maintain with care the [obligatory] prayers

حَافِظُوا عَلَى الصَّلَوَاتِ

[Al-Baqarah 2:238]

⁽⁹⁾ And they who carefully maintain their prayers - ⁽¹⁰⁾ Those are

وَالَّذِينَ هُمْ عَلَىٰ صَلَوَاتِهِمْ يُحَافِظُونَ أُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ

[Al-Mu'minun 23:9-10]

The matter is according to your whim, if you want to pray and if you want not to pray. If you deliberately abandon one time and you deliberate it, then this is disbelief. It requires that you repent and pray after you repent to Allah, Exalted is He.

Source المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 29-04-1435هـ — alfawzan.live (52:38)

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