The ruling on one who abandoned prayer and fasting, then repented
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Question:
This questioner says: I am a twenty-five-year-old girl, but from my childhood until I was twenty-one years old, I did not fast and I did not pray, out of laziness. My parents advised me, or they advised me, but I did not care. So what is obligatory for me to do, knowing that Allah guided me, praise be to Allah, and I am now fasting and praying, and I regret what came before?
Answer:
It is obligatory to repent to Allah with a valid repentance, and to maintain the prayer and the matters of religion. Whoever repents, Allah accepts his repentance. As for what has passed, repentance expiates it, by the permission of Allah. He, Mighty and Majestic, said:[Al-Furqan 25:68-69] [Al-Furqan 25:69-70]. So whoever repents to Allah, Allah accepts his repentance from shirk (associating partners with Allah), from kufr (disbelief), from zina (unlawful sexual intercourse), from killing souls, and from all major and minor sins. Repentance wipes out what came before it, and what has passed is expiated by repentance, by the permission of Allah. Yes.
This questioner says: I am a twenty-five-year-old girl, but from my childhood until I was twenty-one years old, I did not fast and I did not pray, out of laziness. My parents advised me, or they advised me, but I did not care. So what is obligatory for me to do, knowing that Allah guided me, praise be to Allah, and I am now fasting and praying, and I regret what came before?
Answer:
It is obligatory to repent to Allah with a valid repentance, and to maintain the prayer and the matters of religion. Whoever repents, Allah accepts his repentance. As for what has passed, repentance expiates it, by the permission of Allah. He, Mighty and Majestic, said:
(68) And those who do not invoke with Allah another deity or kill the soul which Allah has forbidden [to be killed], except by right, and do not commit unlawful sexual intercourse. And whoever should do that will meet a penalty. (69) Multiplied for him is the punishment on the Day of Resurrection
وَالَّذِينَ لَا يَدْعُونَ مَعَ اللَّهِ إِلَٰهًا آخَرَ وَلَا يَقْتُلُونَ النَّفْسَ الَّتِي حَرَّمَ اللَّهُ إِلَّا بِالْحَقِّ وَلَا يَزْنُونَ وَمَن يَفْعَلْ ذَٰلِكَ يَلْقَ أَثَامًا يُضَاعَفْ لَهُ الْعَذَابُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِand he will abide therein humiliated - (70) Except for those who repent
وَيَخْلُدْ فِيهِ مُهَانًا إِلَّا مَن تَابَ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 21 من 27|أحكام المرأة في الصيام|أعمال البر والخير تقوم بها المرأة المسلمة في وقت عادتها|صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (6:34)
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