What is the ruling on a Muslim daughter who is eighteen years old and has not prayed? Please inform us.
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The questioner : What is the ruling on a Muslim daughter who is eighteen years old and has not prayed? Please inform us.
The Shaykh : We might say that this question is one of the instances of the first question.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : In other words, we say that this daughter who left off prayer and is eighteen years old, if she left it off intentionally and without a valid religious excuse, then according to the position we have deemed stronger, making up the missed prayers will not benefit her, even if she prays thousands of times. She must repent to Allah with a sincere and true repentance and increase in righteous deeds until Allah wipes away from her this great evil. As for the opinion of the majority of scholars, it is obligatory for her to make up every time period that passed after she reached puberty; the time periods she left off after reaching puberty are obligatory for her to make up. This is the view of the majority, whether she left it off intentionally without a valid religious excuse or with a valid religious excuse.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : However, the correct position that we have chosen is that if she left it off intentionally without a valid religious excuse, she does not make it up, because making it up will not benefit her.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Puberty, as is well known among the scholars, occurs through one of four things for a woman: the discharge of semen, the growth of pubic hair, reaching the age of fifteen years according to the stronger opinion, and the fourth is menstruation.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : May Allah reward you.
In the third paragraph, you say that you are sending your sincere thanks to those in charge of the program "Light on the Path." We thank you, O sister of Ulayd, for your inquiry and your concern for the matters of your religion, and we send you our greetings.
This is a letter from a student of knowledge who signed his letter as a student of knowledge.
The Shaykh : We might say that this question is one of the instances of the first question.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : In other words, we say that this daughter who left off prayer and is eighteen years old, if she left it off intentionally and without a valid religious excuse, then according to the position we have deemed stronger, making up the missed prayers will not benefit her, even if she prays thousands of times. She must repent to Allah with a sincere and true repentance and increase in righteous deeds until Allah wipes away from her this great evil. As for the opinion of the majority of scholars, it is obligatory for her to make up every time period that passed after she reached puberty; the time periods she left off after reaching puberty are obligatory for her to make up. This is the view of the majority, whether she left it off intentionally without a valid religious excuse or with a valid religious excuse.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : However, the correct position that we have chosen is that if she left it off intentionally without a valid religious excuse, she does not make it up, because making it up will not benefit her.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Puberty, as is well known among the scholars, occurs through one of four things for a woman: the discharge of semen, the growth of pubic hair, reaching the age of fifteen years according to the stronger opinion, and the fourth is menstruation.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : May Allah reward you.
In the third paragraph, you say that you are sending your sincere thanks to those in charge of the program "Light on the Path." We thank you, O sister of Ulayd, for your inquiry and your concern for the matters of your religion, and we send you our greetings.
This is a letter from a student of knowledge who signed his letter as a student of knowledge.