Making up missed prayers before repentance
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This person says that he was a deviant, and he has repented to Allah, Glorified and Exalted, and praise be to Allah. He says he has old prayers he did not perform. Is it obligatory for him to make them up now?
Answer:
Repentance wipes out what came before it. The correct view is that he does not have to make them up, but he must be sincere in his repentance and maintain the prayer in the future, as the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This person says that he was a deviant, and he has repented to Allah, Glorified and Exalted, and praise be to Allah. He says he has old prayers he did not perform. Is it obligatory for him to make them up now?
Answer:
Repentance wipes out what came before it. The correct view is that he does not have to make them up, but he must be sincere in his repentance and maintain the prayer in the future, as the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said.
And repentance wipes out what came before it
والتوبة تجب ما قبلها
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، فصل في القلب الميت — islamhouse.com (53:32)
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