The End of the One Who Abandons Prayer While Affirming the Oneness of Allah
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The questioner:
Then he says, may Allah preserve you, does the one who abandons prayer while affirming the oneness of Allah end up in Paradise?
The Shaykh:
No, the one who abandons prayer is a disbeliever. The one who abandons prayer is a disbeliever and is not among the people of Islam. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh.
The Shaykh:
As in the athar (report from a Companion or successor): “I met the Companions of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), and they did not consider any act of worship whose abandonment is shirk (associating partners with Allah) except prayer, nor any act whose abandonment is kufr (disbelief) except prayer.” The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said:Sunan Ibn Majah 1079Sahih (Darussalam) The one who does not pray is not a Muslim, even if he testifies that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah; he contradicts this testimony. Yes.
Then he says, may Allah preserve you, does the one who abandons prayer while affirming the oneness of Allah end up in Paradise?
The Shaykh:
No, the one who abandons prayer is a disbeliever. The one who abandons prayer is a disbeliever and is not among the people of Islam. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh.
The Shaykh:
As in the athar (report from a Companion or successor): “I met the Companions of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), and they did not consider any act of worship whose abandonment is shirk (associating partners with Allah) except prayer, nor any act whose abandonment is kufr (disbelief) except prayer.” The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
The covenant that distinguishes between us and them is prayer; so whoever leaves it, he has committed Kufr.
الْعَهْدُ الَّذِي بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَهُمُ الصَّلاَةُ فَمَنْ تَرَكَهَا فَقَدْ كَفَرَ
Source
شرح كتاب فتح المجيد في شرح كتاب التوحيد [ صالح الفوزان ]، تابع كتاب التوحيد - 4 — islamhouse.com (56:38)
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