What is your advice for one who abandons prayer or is negligent with it?

Question:
May Allah’s peace be upon you. He also says: There is a phenomenon among many people, may Allah guide them, which is either abandoning prayer or being negligent with it. So what is your advice for these people?

Answer:
It is obligatory for them to fear Allah the Mighty and Majestic and to repent; because being negligent with prayer or losing the prayer is a great danger. Losing the prayer in the sense of intentionally abandoning it is disbelief that takes one out of the religion. As for losing the prayer in the sense of being lazy about it, performing it outside its time, and abandoning the congregational prayer, this is a major sin among the major sins, and it is a means to abandoning prayer. So it is obligatory for them to preserve the prayer, it is obligatory for them to preserve performing the prayer in its time, and to preserve the congregational prayer so that they may be free from hypocrisy and so that they may stay away from the means of abandoning prayer entirely. Yes.