The Ruling on Making Up Missed Prayers

Question:
We conclude this lesson with a piece of advice for those who sometimes ask frequently about people who abandon prayer for periods of time and then repent and return. Do they have to make up the prayers they left, whether for weeks, months, or otherwise, less or more?

Answer:
Only the one who sleeps through a prayer has to make it up, because the sleeper is excused until he wakes up. The sleeper is the one who is excused, and he is the one who makes up the prayer. As for the one who has no excuse and deliberately abandons it, he commits disbelief, and it does not benefit him even if he makes it up. However, he must repent to Allah and maintain the prayer. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said: This applies to the one who forgets or the one who sleeps. As for the one who deliberately abandons it, he must repent to Allah and maintain the prayer, and not abandon it after that. Yes.