Does one who deliberately left off the prayer make it up if he repents?
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Q: Does one who deliberately left off the prayer make it up if Allah guides him to repentance, whether what he left off was for one time or more?
A: He is not required to make it up if he left it off deliberately, according to the more correct of the two opinions of the scholars. This is because leaving it off deliberately takes him out of the circle of Islam and places him in the category of disbelievers.
And a disbeliever does not make up what he left off during his state of disbelief; due to the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him):Sahih Muslim 82b narrated by Muslim in the Sahih, from Jabir ibn Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with them both), and his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): Sunan Ibn Majah 1079Sahih (Darussalam) reported by Imam Ahmad and the people of the Sunan with a sound chain, from Buraydah ibn al-Husayb (may Allah be pleased with him), and because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not order the disbelievers who embraced Islam to make up what they had left off, and likewise his Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) did not order the apostates, when they returned to Islam, to make up what they had left off.
If he makes up what he left off deliberately, provided he did not deny its obligation, there is no blame on him; as a precaution and to get out of the disagreement of those who said that he does not become a disbeliever if he did not deny its obligation, and they are the majority of the scholars.
And success is from Allah.
A: He is not required to make it up if he left it off deliberately, according to the more correct of the two opinions of the scholars. This is because leaving it off deliberately takes him out of the circle of Islam and places him in the category of disbelievers.
And a disbeliever does not make up what he left off during his state of disbelief; due to the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him):
Between man and polytheism and unbelief is the abandonment of salat.
بين الرجل وبين الشرك والكفر ترك الصلاةThe covenant that distinguishes between us and them is prayer; so whoever leaves it, he has committed Kufr.
العهد الذي بيننا وبينهم الصلاة فمن تركها فقد كفرIf he makes up what he left off deliberately, provided he did not deny its obligation, there is no blame on him; as a precaution and to get out of the disagreement of those who said that he does not become a disbeliever if he did not deny its obligation, and they are the majority of the scholars.
And success is from Allah.
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