How should one deal with one who deliberately abandons the prayer?

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Question:
The questioner says: I have a younger brother who does not pray deliberately. He sleeps with me in the same room and eats with me at the same table. Is it permissible for me to stay with him, or should I drive him out of the house? And if he dies while abandoning the prayer, is the funeral prayer performed for him and is he buried with the Muslims?

Answer:
If he has reached puberty and is a sane adult, and he deliberately abandons the prayer, then he is not a Muslim. But you must compel him to pray. His guardian must compel him to pray, and the head of the household must compel him to pray, even by beating him. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said:

Command your children to pray at seven, and strike them for it at ten.

مروا أولادكم بالصلاة لسبع واضربوهم عليها لعشر

Sunan ad-Daraqutni 3:5

even by beating him. Allah the Exalted said:

And enjoin prayer upon your family [and people] and be steadfast therein.

وَأْمُرْ أَهْلَكَ بِالصَّلَاةِ وَاصْطَبِرْ عَلَيْهَا

[Taha 20:132]

Allah the Exalted said:

O you who have believed, protect yourselves and your families from a Fire whose fuel is people and stones

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا قُوا أَنفُسَكُمْ وَأَهْلِيكُمْ نَارًا وَقُودُهَا النَّاسُ وَالْحِجَارَةُ

[At-Tahrim 66:6]

So the head of the household, the head of the household, is required to compel every member of the household to pray. And whoever abandons it, he disciplines him and beats him until he prays. Yes.

Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، كيف يكون التعامل مع تارك الصلاة متعمدًا؟ للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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