The Ruling on One Who Deliberately Abandons Prayer
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Question:
May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says: My brother is eighteen years old, and he does not pray except the Friday prayer. I say: his age. He said: seventeen years old. And he does not pray. He does not pray it. What do you advise me to do regarding him? And if he dies in this state, and I know that he does not pray, should I report about him so that he is not prayed over?
Answer:
Yes, the one who abandons the prayer intentionally is a disbeliever, unless he is of unsound mind, if he is mentally deficient and does not have reason, then he is not accountable. But if he is of sound mind and has passed the age of puberty at seventeen, and he is of sound mind and abandons the prayer intentionally, then he is a disbeliever. You may advise people about him, saying: Look, this is your concern, so that they do not treat him as a Muslim, and he is not prayed over, and he is not buried in the graves of the Muslims, but rather he is treated as a disbeliever.
May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says: My brother is eighteen years old, and he does not pray except the Friday prayer. I say: his age. He said: seventeen years old. And he does not pray. He does not pray it. What do you advise me to do regarding him? And if he dies in this state, and I know that he does not pray, should I report about him so that he is not prayed over?
Answer:
Yes, the one who abandons the prayer intentionally is a disbeliever, unless he is of unsound mind, if he is mentally deficient and does not have reason, then he is not accountable. But if he is of sound mind and has passed the age of puberty at seventeen, and he is of sound mind and abandons the prayer intentionally, then he is a disbeliever. You may advise people about him, saying: Look, this is your concern, so that they do not treat him as a Muslim, and he is not prayed over, and he is not buried in the graves of the Muslims, but rather he is treated as a disbeliever.
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