A woman asks and says: She has abandoned the prayer for years; does she have to make it up?

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A woman asks and says that she has abandoned the prayer for years; does she have to make it up?

Answer:
If she abandoned it out of forgetfulness, or if she abandoned it out of forgetfulness, she has to make it up. She knows that it is obligatory, but she forgot it, so she makes it up. However, if she abandoned it intentionally, and may Allah protect us from that, if she abandoned it intentionally, then she exits Islam. If she intentionally abandons the prayer until its time passes, she apostatizes from Islam. So she must repent and enter Islam anew.
As for if she abandoned it out of ignorance, and the time was long, and it became many prayers over long years, that is dropped from her. Because this involves hardship for her to make up prayers for long years, and she abandoned it out of ignorance, not intentionally. It is dropped from her because Allah forgives the ignorant. Yes.