The Method of Advising a Father Who Neglects the Prayer
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says that his father is negligent in the prayer. He asks: What is the Shari'ah method for advising my father about this?
Answer:
Yes. Fear Allah, remind him of the prayer, make him fear Allah, and explain to him the ruling for the one who is negligent in the prayer and the one who abandons the prayer. Do not leave him. Yes. If you see that he does not accept, inform the imam of the mosque and inform the members of the body for enjoining good and forbidding evil; they will take him by the hand. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says that his father is negligent in the prayer. He asks: What is the Shari'ah method for advising my father about this?
Answer:
Yes. Fear Allah, remind him of the prayer, make him fear Allah, and explain to him the ruling for the one who is negligent in the prayer and the one who abandons the prayer. Do not leave him. Yes. If you see that he does not accept, inform the imam of the mosque and inform the members of the body for enjoining good and forbidding evil; they will take him by the hand. Yes.
Source
شرح العقيدة الواسطية [ صالح الفوزان ] [ 1438هـ ]، الإيمان بأنه قريب مجيب — islamhouse.com (1:01:03)
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