How should one deal with family and relatives who do not pray, knowing that they are aware of the obligation of prayer but have abandoned it out of laziness?
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The questioner : She says that she is a girl, and given her relationship with the family, she says that many of the family and relatives do not pray. So how should one deal with them, knowing that they know that prayer is obligatory, and it is only laziness? How should the relationship with them be?
The Shaykh : The relationship with those who do not pray at all is to advise them first of all, through speech, messages, and religious tapes. If they stop, then Allah is Forgiving and Merciful. If they refuse but to remain as they are, it is obligatory to boycott them and keep away from them, because in this state they have no right, since the one who abandons prayer is an apostate who has exited Islam and has no right. As Allah Mighty and Majestic said to Noah (peace be upon him) when he said:[Hud 11:45] and his son was this disbeliever [Hud 11:46] This is the state by which these close relatives must be treated. Yes.
The questioner : May Allah reward you. The listener Ali Manwar from Arar says.
The Shaykh : The relationship with those who do not pray at all is to advise them first of all, through speech, messages, and religious tapes. If they stop, then Allah is Forgiving and Merciful. If they refuse but to remain as they are, it is obligatory to boycott them and keep away from them, because in this state they have no right, since the one who abandons prayer is an apostate who has exited Islam and has no right. As Allah Mighty and Majestic said to Noah (peace be upon him) when he said:
My Lord, indeed my son is of my family; and indeed, Your promise is true; and You are the most just of judges!"
رَبِّ إِنَّ ابْنِي مِنْ أَهْلِي وَإِنَّ وَعْدَكَ الْحَقُّ وَأَنْتَ أَحْكَمُ الْحَاكِمِينَHe said, "O Noah, indeed he is not of your family; indeed, he is [one whose] work was other than righteous, so ask Me not for that about which you have no knowledge. Indeed, I advise you, lest you be among the ignorant."
قَالَ يَا نُوحُ إِنَّهُ لَيْسَ مِنْ أَهْلِكَ إِنَّهُ عَمَلٌ غَيْرُ صَالِحٍ فَلا تَسْأَلْنِ مَا لَيْسَ لَكَ بِهِ عِلْمٌ إِنِّي أَعِظُكَ أَنْ تَكُونَ مِنَ الْجَاهِلِينَThe questioner : May Allah reward you. The listener Ali Manwar from Arar says.