Expiation for Abandoning Prayer and Fasting
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Question:
He says: In past years, I used to drive a bus on the highways, and that was my livelihood. I did not pray and I did not fast, and I was thirty years old. I sometimes stopped [praying and fasting] and then returned to Allah the Exalted, and I began to maintain the prayer and fasting, both while traveling and while resident. Do I have to make expiation for what I missed and make up the fasts?
Answer:
Praise be to Allah who granted you the blessing of repentance. You must maintain the prayer in the future, and maintain fasting. Allah will forgive you what has passed by means of sincere and earnest repentance. Yes.
He says: In past years, I used to drive a bus on the highways, and that was my livelihood. I did not pray and I did not fast, and I was thirty years old. I sometimes stopped [praying and fasting] and then returned to Allah the Exalted, and I began to maintain the prayer and fasting, both while traveling and while resident. Do I have to make expiation for what I missed and make up the fasts?
Answer:
Praise be to Allah who granted you the blessing of repentance. You must maintain the prayer in the future, and maintain fasting. Allah will forgive you what has passed by means of sincere and earnest repentance. Yes.
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/132 — archive.org (5:33)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.