Is it obligatory to make up the prayers of one who intentionally abandoned them?

Question:
May Allah preserve you. This questioner, who used the letter F as a code for his name, says: A man used to not pray in the past, but he repented to his Lord and returned to Him, and he turned to the prayers by being diligent in observing them and worshipping his Lord, the Exalted and Majestic. Now he says: I want to compensate and make up the prayers I missed. How do I make them up, and when are my missed prayers to be prayed?

Answer:
The correct opinion among the scholars is that one who abandons prayer, if he repents, that is, if one who intentionally abandons prayer repents, he does not make up what he left behind; repentance is sufficient. This is because repentance wipes out what came before it, and because before repentance he was not on the religion of Islam. The correct view is that one who intentionally abandons prayer commits disbelief. So if he repents to Allah, he repents from disbelief and enters Islam anew. He then maintains the prayers in the future. Yes.