The Ruling on Dealing with One Who Abandons Prayer as One Deals with Disbelievers
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: If I deal with a person as one deals with disbelievers because he does not pray, does that mean I have ruled that he is a disbeliever specifically?
Answer:
That is a ruling for the judge, not for you. If he does not pray, his case is referred to the judge. If the judge rules that he is a disbeliever, he is dealt with as a disbeliever. He may be forgetting the prayer, or he may be lazy, and he may not have any denial of the prayer. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: If I deal with a person as one deals with disbelievers because he does not pray, does that mean I have ruled that he is a disbeliever specifically?
Answer:
That is a ruling for the judge, not for you. If he does not pray, his case is referred to the judge. If the judge rules that he is a disbeliever, he is dealt with as a disbeliever. He may be forgetting the prayer, or he may be lazy, and he may not have any denial of the prayer. Yes.
Source
إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان-27- 03-1441هـ — alfawzan.live (55:32)
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