The Ruling on the One Who Abandons Prayer Out of Negligence
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: Is the one who does not declare a disbeliever the person who abandons prayer out of negligence considered one of the Murji'ah (a sect that excluded deeds from faith)?
Answer:
Yes, this is a type of irja' (excluding deeds from faith). If he believes that deeds are not part of faith, and that prayer is not part of it, this is closed off. But if he believes that deeds are part of faith, yet he says that the one who abandons prayer does not become a disbeliever, just as with other deeds where faith is diminished by them but one does not become a disbeliever, then he has adopted the opinion of some scholars. They have doubts (shubhah) and they have doubts, but he is not considered a Murji'i. If he is relying on an opinion and on doubts by which he argues, he is not called a Murji'i; he is called one who is mistaken.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: Is the one who does not declare a disbeliever the person who abandons prayer out of negligence considered one of the Murji'ah (a sect that excluded deeds from faith)?
Answer:
Yes, this is a type of irja' (excluding deeds from faith). If he believes that deeds are not part of faith, and that prayer is not part of it, this is closed off. But if he believes that deeds are part of faith, yet he says that the one who abandons prayer does not become a disbeliever, just as with other deeds where faith is diminished by them but one does not become a disbeliever, then he has adopted the opinion of some scholars. They have doubts (shubhah) and they have doubts, but he is not considered a Murji'i. If he is relying on an opinion and on doubts by which he argues, he is not called a Murji'i; he is called one who is mistaken.
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