How to reconcile Allah's saying (They said: We were not among those who prayed) with the author's statement that it is obligatory only for the Muslim?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, how do you reconcile Allah's saying:[Al-Muddaththir 74:42-43] with what the author mentioned, that it is obligatory only for the Muslim?
Answer:
He is a Muslim, but he abandoned the prayer, so Allah sent him to al-Saqar. This is evidence that abandoning the prayer is disbelief.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, how do you reconcile Allah's saying:
(42) [And asking them], "What put you into Saqar?" (43) They will say, "We were not of those who prayed,
مَا سَلَكَكُمْ فِي سَقَرَ قَالُوا لَمْ نَكُ مِنَ الْمُصَلِّينَAnswer:
He is a Muslim, but he abandoned the prayer, so Allah sent him to al-Saqar. This is evidence that abandoning the prayer is disbelief.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [386 -3022] كيف الجمع بين قوله تعالى(قالوا لم نك من المصلين)وبين قول المؤلف هي واجبة فقط على المسلم؟ — youtube.com
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