The Ruling on One Who Delays the Prayer Due to Obsessive Thoughts and Then Repents
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, the questioner says: I am a man who was upright, praise be to Allah, but then I experienced a decline in my worship, as I delay prayer due to obsessive thoughts, and sometimes I delay two prayers, and I do not consider it permissible, but it is either a fit of depression or obsessive thoughts. The question is: Am I a disbeliever? Knowing that I have repented to Allah and left these things, and I am aware of the prohibition of delaying prayer?
Answer:
As long as you have repented to Allah, praise be to Allah, and you maintain the prayer in the future, Allah forgives what has passed. Repentance nullifies what came before it.
Honorable Shaykh, the questioner says: I am a man who was upright, praise be to Allah, but then I experienced a decline in my worship, as I delay prayer due to obsessive thoughts, and sometimes I delay two prayers, and I do not consider it permissible, but it is either a fit of depression or obsessive thoughts. The question is: Am I a disbeliever? Knowing that I have repented to Allah and left these things, and I am aware of the prohibition of delaying prayer?
Answer:
As long as you have repented to Allah, praise be to Allah, and you maintain the prayer in the future, Allah forgives what has passed. Repentance nullifies what came before it.
Source
75-اللقاء الأسبوعي مع الشيخ صالح الفوزان - 15 — archive.org (51:45)
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