Rebuking the one who wears an amulet and abandons prayer

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. When I see a person wearing an amulet on his car to ward off the evil eye, but he is also one who abandons prayer, with what should I begin my rebuke of him? Should I start with the wearing of the amulet, or with the abandoning of prayer?

Answer:
Abandoning prayer entirely is disbelief. As for the state of the amulet: if it is from the Qur'an, he delays forbidding it from him because there is scholarly disagreement regarding it. But if it is from other than the Qur'an, he hastens to forbid it from him. The prohibition of wearing amulets on cars is delayed because shirk (associating partners with Allah) is greater than abandoning prayer. So he delays forbidding the wearing of amulets on cars, and then, if he accepts that, he forbids him from abandoning prayer. Yes.