Do we greet those who do not pray and respond to their invitations?

The questioner : Yes. Sometimes it is one of the Muslim men who does not pray. And you have advised him. That is, it is likely in your opinion that if you repeat the invitation and advice, he will be affected, and sometimes he prays. But if you do not greet him, he will think that you have restricted yourself, and saying "good morning" does not help.

The Shaykh : What are the operations? If it is... But the salam. Just note that the issue of abandoning prayer is not of the same kind as sins; it is disbelief. And if the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said not to initiate the greeting to the Christians with the salam, then this is even more so. So this is an apostate, and the apostate is in a worse state than the original disbeliever. You do not greet him, and you do not respond to his invitation. The one who does not pray, you do not greet him, and you do not respond to his invitation; because he is a disbeliever.

The questioner : This would be an obstacle to advice. An obstacle to accepting advice.

The Shaykh : Let it be an obstacle, but I advise before or after?

The questioner : And if there is advice and no knowledge.

The Shaykh : Know that the disbeliever cannot be dealt with except by boycotting him if he does not need it. I boycott him because Allah ordered his fighting, and this one who abandoned prayer is an apostate, and the scholars say an apostate must be invited to Islam, or else he is killed. Muslims are easy. This is it. Yes.