The ruling on abandoning the night prayer and persisting in it

Question:
May Allah reward you and bless you. This is a message received from a listener of the program. In his question, he says: Honorable Shaykh, regarding the persistence in the night prayer rak'ahs. If a person abandons them for a period and then returns to them for a period, is there anything required of him in that?

Answer:
Yes, if he abandons them, he misses the reward and the recompense. He should persist in righteous deeds. In the hadith, So he should persist in that and strive for it. But if something occurs that prevents him from persisting in standing in prayer at night, such as illness or travel, he is excused for that, and he is written what was written for him while he was sound and resident, as came in the hadith, This is due to laziness. So what the Muslim should do is persist in righteous deeds, even if they are few, and he should beware of laziness and preoccupation.