Some of the brothers, may Allah guide them, do not pray except the Friday prayer, and only in Ramadan. What is your advice for these people?

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Question:
Some of the brothers, may Allah guide them, do not pray except the Friday prayer, and only in Ramadan. What is your advice for these people?

Answer:
They have the right to fear Allah and to enter Islam anew. For the one who does not pray except the Friday prayer or in Ramadan is like the one who does not pray at all, because leaving some of the prayers and performing some of them is not sufficient. Allah the Exalted said:

So do you believe in part of the Scripture and disbelieve in part?

أَفَتُؤْمِنُونَ بِبَعْضِ الْكِتَابِ وَتَكْفُرُونَ بِبَعْضٍ

[Al-Baqarah 2:85]

This is believing in part of the Book and disbelieving in part. Likewise, Allah the Exalted says:

Maintain with care the [obligatory] prayers and [in particular] the middle prayer

حَافِظُوا عَلَى الصَّلَوَاتِ وَالصَّلَاةِ الْوُسْطَىٰ

[Al-Baqarah 2:238]

, they are

And they who carefully maintain their prayers -

وَالَّذِينَ هُمْ عَلَىٰ صَلَوَاتِهِمْ يُحَافِظُونَ

[Al-Mu'minun 23:9]

⁽¹⁾ Certainly will the believers have succeeded: ⁽²⁾ They who are during their prayer humbly submissive

قَدْ أَفْلَحَ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ الَّذِينَ هُمْ فِي صَلَاتِهِمْ خَاشِعُونَ

[Al-Mu'minun 23:1-2]

up to His saying, "and those who are mindful of their prayers." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "Five prayers have been written by Allah in the day and the night." And among the greatest pillars of Islam after the two testimonies are the five prayers, because they are the second pillar of the pillars of Islam, and they are the pillar of Islam. His saying (peace and blessings be upon him):

The head of the matter is Islam, and its pillar is the Salat, and its hump is Jihad.

رَأْسُ الأَمْرِ الإِسْلاَمُ وَعَمُودُهُ الصَّلاَةُ وَذِرْوَةُ سَنَامِهِ الْجِهَادُ

Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2616Hasan (Darussalam)

in the cause of Allah.
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:

(peace and blessings be upon him)

صلى الله عليه وسلم

Musannaf Abd al-Razzaq 2:194

Between the servant and disbelief or shirk (associating partners with Allah) is the abandonment of the prayer. Whoever abandons it has

بين العبد وبين الكفر أو الشرك ترك الصلاة، من تركها فقد

disbelief. This indicates that abandoning the prayer is disbelief that takes one out of the religion, whether he prays some of the prayers and leaves some, or he does not pray at all. The ruling in this is legislated until he repents to Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, and performs the prayers that Allah has legislated in the day and the night, five times, in congregation and at their appointed times. Allah the Exalted said, "Indeed, prayer is

has been decreed upon the believers a decree of specified times.

كَانَتْ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ كِتَابًا مَّوْقُوتًا

[An-Nisa 4:103]

."
In many verses, Allah commands the establishment of the prayer and forbids its neglect. Allah the Exalted said:

But there came after them successors who neglected prayer and pursued desires; so they are going to meet evil -

فَخَلَفَ مِن بَعْدِهِمْ خَلْفٌ أَضَاعُوا الصَّلَاةَ وَاتَّبَعُوا الشَّهَوَاتِ فَسَوْفَ يَلْقَوْنَ

[Maryam 19:59]

life. Allah the Exalted said:

⁽⁴⁾ So woe to those who pray ⁽⁵⁾ [But] who are heedless of their prayer -

فَوَيْلٌ لِّلْمُصَلِّينَ الَّذِينَ هُمْ عَن صَلَاتِهِمْ سَاهُونَ

[Al-Ma'un 107:4-5]

And it came in the hadith that whoever neglects the prayer will be gathered on the Day of Resurrection with Pharaoh, Qarun, Haman, and Abu Jahl, gathered with the heads of the disbelievers, refuge with Allah.
And Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, informed about the people of the Fire that when they are thrown into Saqar, which is the Fire, refuge with Allah, and they are asked:

⁽⁴²⁾ [And asking them], "What put you into Saqar?" ⁽⁴³⁾ They will say, "We were not of those who prayed, ⁽⁴⁴⁾ Nor did we used to feed the poor. ⁽⁴⁵⁾ And we used to enter into vain discourse with those who engaged [in it], ⁽⁴⁶⁾ And we used to deny the Day of Recompense

مَا سَلَكَكُمْ فِي سَقَرَ قَالُوا لَمْ نَكُ مِنَ الْمُصَلِّينَ وَلَمْ نَكُ نُطْعِمُ الْمِسْكِينَ وَكُنَّا نَخُوضُ مَعَ الْخَائِضِينَ وَكُنَّا نُكَذِّبُ بِيَوْمِ الدِّينِ

[Al-Muddaththir 74:42-46]

, their first answer was, "We were not among those who prayed," and the reason that put them in the Fire, Allah the Exalted said:

And when it is said to them, "Bow [in prayer]," they do not bow.

وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمُ ارْكَعُوا لَا يَرْكَعُونَ

[Al-Mursalat 77:48]

And if

that Day, to the deniers.

يَوْمَئِذٍ لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ

[Al-Mursalat 77:49]

It is obligatory upon the Muslim to fear Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, and not to be played with by Satan and his soul that commands evil, so that he neglects the prayers or neglects some of them, or follows those who have no character from the heedless who claim to be Muslims, but they do not pray, and they do not give the prayer its due. For there is no share in Islam for the one who abandons the prayer, even if he claims it. I ask Allah for well-being and safety. O Allah, amen. May Allah reward you with good.

Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، بعض الأخوة هداهم الله لا يصلون إلا صلاة الجمعة وفي رمضان فقط فما نصيحتكم لهؤلاء؟ الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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