He says in his letter: I have two brothers who do not pray. Is it permissible for me to speak to them or not?
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The questioner : This letter reached us from the listener, the sender, E, E, E, E. He says in his letter: I have two brothers who do not pray. Is it permissible for me to speak to them or not?
The Shaykh : It is obligatory for you to speak to these two brothers with advice, calling to Allah, warning them of His anger, and making it clear that prayer is the pillar of Islam, that there is no share in Islam for one who abandons prayer, and that one who dies while not praying is a disbeliever who will not enter Paradise with the believers, will not be prayed over, and will not be buried in their graveyards. Warn them of this, and do not despair, for Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He) may test some of His servants by delaying their Islam, and He may test the callers by delaying acceptance from them, so that He (Glorified and Exalted is He) may distinguish the patient from the non-patient.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : May Allah reward you, O gentlemen. We have reached the end of this session, in which we presented the letters of the gentlemen: the head of the Commission for Promoting Virtue and Prohibiting Vice in al-Qasab, Ali Ahmad al-Yamani from Jeddah, Abdullah Ahmad al-Yamani from Jeddah as well, Abdullah Ahmad ibn Hashim from the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, Rashad Sulayman al-Saghir al-Wasabi from al-Ghunayman station on the Sadr road, and the student Husayn Bilqasim al-Faqih from the Secondary Teachers' Training Institute in al-Qunfudhah, and finally the letter of the sender E, E.
The Shaykh : It is obligatory for you to speak to these two brothers with advice, calling to Allah, warning them of His anger, and making it clear that prayer is the pillar of Islam, that there is no share in Islam for one who abandons prayer, and that one who dies while not praying is a disbeliever who will not enter Paradise with the believers, will not be prayed over, and will not be buried in their graveyards. Warn them of this, and do not despair, for Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He) may test some of His servants by delaying their Islam, and He may test the callers by delaying acceptance from them, so that He (Glorified and Exalted is He) may distinguish the patient from the non-patient.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : May Allah reward you, O gentlemen. We have reached the end of this session, in which we presented the letters of the gentlemen: the head of the Commission for Promoting Virtue and Prohibiting Vice in al-Qasab, Ali Ahmad al-Yamani from Jeddah, Abdullah Ahmad al-Yamani from Jeddah as well, Abdullah Ahmad ibn Hashim from the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, Rashad Sulayman al-Saghir al-Wasabi from al-Ghunayman station on the Sadr road, and the student Husayn Bilqasim al-Faqih from the Secondary Teachers' Training Institute in al-Qunfudhah, and finally the letter of the sender E, E.