The Conditions of Enjoining Good and Forbidding Evil, and the Ruling on the One Who Abandons Prayer

The Shaykh:
O my brother, O my brother.

The questioner:
And enjoining good. And what?

The Shaykh:
It has conditions. The conditions are that you know that this is what is wrong, you know that this is what is wrong, and this is what is right. It is to be done with kind words.

The questioner:
You cover the expulsion.

The Shaykh:
And if kind words do not benefit, then it is by beating from the authority and the people of hisbah (public order). If kind words benefit, there is no harm. And if kind words do not benefit, the sinner is disciplined. He is disciplined, my son, he is disciplined by beating, by imprisonment. And the matter may lead to killing afterwards, may Allah keep us safe. If he does not pray, he is killed. If he is given the chance to repent, then if he repents, otherwise he is killed. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, said: This indicates that if he does not repent, he is not left alone. And the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: This indicates that if he does not pray, he is not forbidden from being killed. So he is to be ordered to be killed. And all the scholars mentioned that the one who abandons prayer is given the chance to repent. If he repents, and if he is killed. Some of them said he is given the chance to repent and is tortured until he prays. The majority of them, most of them, are of the opinion that he is killed if he does not repent. May Allah keep us safe.