Advice Regarding a Brother Who Does Not Pray Except on Friday
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: My brother is eighteen years old, and he does not pray except the Friday prayer.
The Shaykh:
Your brother.
The questioner:
His age. He said: seventeen years old.
The Shaykh:
Yes, and he does not pray.
The questioner:
The Friday prayer, and sometimes he does not even pray that. 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 him so that he is not prayed over?
The Shaykh:
Yes. The one who abandons the prayer intentionally is a disbeliever, unless he is of unsound mind. If he is mentally deficient and has no intellect, he is not accountable. But if he is of sound mind, and he is seventeen, having passed the age of puberty, and he is of sound mind and abandons the prayer intentionally, then he is a disbeliever. You may advise people about him, saying: This is his condition, so that they are not deceived by him, and so that he is not prayed over, and not buried in the graves of the Muslims, but rather he is treated as a disbeliever. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: My brother is eighteen years old, and he does not pray except the Friday prayer.
The Shaykh:
Your brother.
The questioner:
His age. He said: seventeen years old.
The Shaykh:
Yes, and he does not pray.
The questioner:
The Friday prayer, and sometimes he does not even pray that. 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 him so that he is not prayed over?
The Shaykh:
Yes. The one who abandons the prayer intentionally is a disbeliever, unless he is of unsound mind. If he is mentally deficient and has no intellect, he is not accountable. But if he is of sound mind, and he is seventeen, having passed the age of puberty, and he is of sound mind and abandons the prayer intentionally, then he is a disbeliever. You may advise people about him, saying: This is his condition, so that they are not deceived by him, and so that he is not prayed over, and not buried in the graves of the Muslims, but rather he is treated as a disbeliever. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 30/20 شرح العقيدة السفارينية / صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (9:55)
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