Deliberately abandoning some of the prayers
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: What is the ruling on one who deliberately abandons some of the prayers?
The Shaykh:
It is not permissible to abandon some of the prayers. All the prayers are obligatory and must be performed. It is not permissible to pray some and abandon some. This is not permissible, and his prayer is not valid. As long as he abandons some of the prayers, his prayers that he did perform are not valid and are not accepted. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
He established five prayers that Allah made obligatory. Is it that some of the five are performed and some are abandoned? No,Al-Mustadrak lil-Hakim 18:77 Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: What is the ruling on one who deliberately abandons some of the prayers?
The Shaykh:
It is not permissible to abandon some of the prayers. All the prayers are obligatory and must be performed. It is not permissible to pray some and abandon some. This is not permissible, and his prayer is not valid. As long as he abandons some of the prayers, his prayers that he did perform are not valid and are not accepted. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
He established five prayers that Allah made obligatory. Is it that some of the five are performed and some are abandoned? No,
He made them obligatory in the day and the night,
فرضهن الله في اليوم والليلة،
Source
شرح العقيدة الواسطية، العقيدة الواسطية 19-06-1437هـ — alfawzan.live (1:12:17)
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