Marriage to one who abandons congregational prayer
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Question:
May Allah provide for her. It is something like giving five women from the neighborhood two hundred riyals. After this was realized for her, she said: The amount came to me, and I converted these women to come to the gathering. What is upon her now? She swore an oath, or an oath came down upon her, either to feed the women she swore to, or to pay the expiation for an oath. Imagine between the two. May Allah reward you and bless you. This is the mother of al-Waleed saying: Honorable Shaykh, in response, I ask about a fatwa. A girl is 27 years old, and a man proposed to her. We asked about him, and they said he prays at home, but we do not see him in the mosque. Do you say we give him and marry this girl to him?
Answer:
No. If he abandons the congregational prayer, and if he returns to the mosque, then it is not befitting that he be married to a committed Muslim woman, because this is not acceptable in his religion and his trustworthiness. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1085Da'if (Darussalam) and his trustworthiness is your safety. And the one who abandons congregational prayer intentionally is one who abandons an obligation, and one who abandons an obligation among the obligations, and the one who abandons an obligation sins. The obligatory is that for which its doer is rewarded and its abandoner is punished. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) counted the absence from the congregation without an excuse as hypocrisy, and he said: The most burdensome prayers for the hypocrites are the 'Isha' prayer and the Fajr prayer, and they will know that in them there is no weakness and no laziness. Abdullah ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Sahih Muslim 654b.
This is because the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said in the hadith:Sahih Ibn Hibban 10:352 'Umar. So it is obligatory for the Muslim to maintain the prayer with the congregation. If he abandons the congregation intentionally, he is not to be married to a committed Muslim woman, because it affects her with negligence in the matter of her religion, or it affects her children and offspring. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
May Allah provide for her. It is something like giving five women from the neighborhood two hundred riyals. After this was realized for her, she said: The amount came to me, and I converted these women to come to the gathering. What is upon her now? She swore an oath, or an oath came down upon her, either to feed the women she swore to, or to pay the expiation for an oath. Imagine between the two. May Allah reward you and bless you. This is the mother of al-Waleed saying: Honorable Shaykh, in response, I ask about a fatwa. A girl is 27 years old, and a man proposed to her. We asked about him, and they said he prays at home, but we do not see him in the mosque. Do you say we give him and marry this girl to him?
Answer:
No. If he abandons the congregational prayer, and if he returns to the mosque, then it is not befitting that he be married to a committed Muslim woman, because this is not acceptable in his religion and his trustworthiness. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
When someone whose religion
إذا جاءكم من ترضون دينهI have seen the time when no one stayed away from it, except a hypocrite, who was well known for his hypocrisy, whereas a man would be brought swaying (due to weakness) between two men till he was set up in a row.
وَلَقَدْ رَأَيْتُنَا وَمَا يَتَخَلَّفُ عَنْهَا إِلاَّ مُنَافِقٌ مَعْلُومُ النِّفَاقِ وَلَقَدْ كَانَ الرَّجُلُ يُؤْتَى بِهِ يُهَادَى بَيْنَ الرَّجُلَيْنِ حَتَّى يُقَامَ فِي الصَّفِّThis is because the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said in the hadith:
The authentic hadith: Whoever hears the call and does not respond, there is no prayer for him except for one who has an excuse.
الصحيح من سمع النداء فلم يجب فلا صلاه له الا منThe presenter:
May Allah reward you
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/259 — archive.org (0:45)
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