I interrupt my prayer, and this bothers me. I bear witness to Allah that I love my prayer, and I love to continue it and not interrupt it. So what do you advise me?

The questioner:
You say that you interrupt your prayer, and this always bothers you. I bear witness to Allah that you love your prayer, and you love to continue it and not interrupt it. So what do you advise me? May Allah reward you with good.

The Shaykh:
It is not permissible to interrupt the prayer, due to the saying of Allah the Exalted: Therefore, it is not permissible to interrupt the prayer except if something occurs that invalidates the prayer, such as breaking the ablution, or if a necessary matter arises that requires interrupting the prayer, such as saving a person from destruction. If one sees a person about to fall into fire or into water that will drown him, he interrupts the prayer to save him, or if there is a blind person whom one fears will fall into a well or a pit, he intervenes to save him from destruction. These are cases of dire necessity for which the prayer is interrupted. As for anything else, it is not permissible to interrupt the prayer. Yes.

The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good.

The questioner:
Shaykh Salih, if you mean by interrupting the prayer that she prays once, and then stops praying another time,

The Shaykh:
If the meaning is that she prays some of the obligatory prayers and leaves others, this is like leaving them all, because the one who leaves one prayer is like the one who leaves all the prayers. Allah the Exalted said: Allah the Exalted said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: It is obligatory to preserve all the prayers, and it is not permissible to pray some of the prayers and leave some, or if one is present with people who are praying, he prays, and if he is absent from them, he leaves the prayer. This is like the one who leaves all the prayers. Intentionally leaving the prayers is disbelief in Allah the Mighty and Majestic. He said: He said: The people of the Sunan, and the hadiths and verses regarding the disbelief of the one who intentionally leaves the prayer are numerous. So the Muslim man and woman should fear Allah the Mighty and Majestic, and preserve all their prayers, the five prayers at their times, and not be lax in some of them, or leave some and pray some, or pray at one time and leave them at other times, like those who only pray in the month of Ramadan, or only pray from Friday to Friday. These people are not upon anything of their religion, and I seek refuge in Allah, until they preserve their prayers and be consistent with them,