The Negligent in Prayer and the Ruling on Making Up Missed Prayers

The Shaykh : Among the bad consequences of deviating from the divine description is when a man, for example, does not care about prayer. Why? Because there are wrong concepts in his heart that cause him to deviate from performing prayer, which is one of the five pillars of Islam. These are many things; for example, he tells you: "Yes, right now I am a sinner, I am young right now, let me enjoy life a little. Tomorrow, when I get a bit older, I will devote myself to worship and prayer. Tomorrow I will pray. Allah is Forgiving and Merciful."
This is logic that, if you do not hear it, it is still present in people's hearts, yet we hear it often.
So, if this person knew the correct legal ruling that there is no making up in Islam, he would hasten to pray because it has no substitute. The Messenger (peace be upon him) said, clarifying the Qur'an: He (peace be upon him) said: .
First, our Lord says: You heard the call to prayer, you remembered your Lord and His command to you to go to the mosque and pray with the congregation of Muslims. You must establish the prayer. It is not a problem for a person; man was not called man except because of his forgetfulness. He may forget, he may sleep through the prayer, it is possible. But beware that after you remember or after you wake up, you say: "Hey, the prayer was missed, I will pray it in the late morning or I will pray it at another time!"
If he does not do so, , . This is one of the obstacles that prevent a Muslim from being upright, and it is his misunderstanding of an aspect of Islamic jurisprudence. If the Muslim knows that prayer is not made up if he left it intentionally and deliberately, then he will hasten to perform every prayer in its time.
Among the obstacles that turn a Muslim away from uprightness in the religion of Allah, he tells you: "Tomorrow, when I die, my children will make up for me, they will pray for me, they will give charity for me, they will perform Hajj for me, and so on."
In Syria, the Anatolian lands, and Albania, they have a very big problem, which they call "dropping the prayer." That is, they calculate how many years the deceased lived, how many prayers he left behind. Of course, thousands and thousands. The expiation for each prayer is a mudd of wheat. What is the value of these mudds? In the thousands. Yes, the money they have is not enough. They borrow jewelry and ornaments from women and put it in a bundle and pass it around to the people sitting there. "Did you accept this as expiation for the deceased?" "Yes, it is accepted, but I will return it." And so they play with themselves!! And in this way they free the deceased from the punishment of Allah in the grave, while he was leaving off prayer!! This exists, is practiced, and is recorded in some books.
Such deviations are what cause Muslims to neglect their religion, committing prohibitions because they have interpretations for them. This is what the Messenger (peace be upon him) warned us about when he said: . This is the prescription: return to the religion. But which religion? The religion in the first, Salafi, brightest concept, or the later concept that divided into seventy-three sects? This is a very important point.
Without a doubt, the religion intended here is Islam, about which Allah said: . How excellent is the word reported from Imam Malik, the Imam of the City of Migration (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: "Whoever innovates in Islam an innovation that he sees as good—one innovation that he sees as good—has claimed that Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) betrayed the message. Read the saying of Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He): ."
Imam Malik cites this verse, then continues and says: "So whatever was not a religion at that time will not be a religion today." Connect this statement to the first statement: "Whoever innovates in Islam an innovation that he sees as good has claimed that Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) betrayed the message. Read the saying of Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He): ; so whatever was not a religion at that time will not be a religion today." When was Malik? In the second century of the Hijrah. The second century says: "So whatever was not a religion at that time"—meaning a year and a half before—will not be a religion in the second century. "And the end of this Ummah will not be rectified except by what rectified its beginning."
Therefore, our call is limited to returning in religion to what our righteous predecessors (may Allah be pleased with them all) were upon.
I think this is sufficient and enough.