What is obligatory upon one who left off prayer out of ignorance?
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Question:
He says: I left off prayer out of ignorance, so is it obligatory for me to make it up?
Answer:
Yes, you must make up the prayer if you were ignorant at the beginning of your youth, and then you understood. You must make it up and pray what you left off out of ignorance. However, if you did it intentionally, with the intention of not caring about prayer, then you are a disbeliever by this, and you do not have to make it up except through repentance.
As for when there are reasons for it, ignorance has reasons, such as being sick, or something similar, where you thought that prayer was not obligatory upon you, then you make it up. When it is clarified to you and you know, you make up what you missed. Like the sick person who thought he did not have to pray until he recovered, until he was able to pray while standing. This person prays what he left off when he recovers. If he does not recover, he prays in his current state, standing, sitting, or on his side.
Likewise, some people, if they thought that if water was not available they did not have to pray until water was available, this is a doubt. This person also prays and makes up what he missed, because his leaving it off was due to a doubt, not with the intention of deliberate disobedience.
So the conclusion is: if a person leaves it off intentionally due to an interpretation or a doubt, then he makes it up. But if he leaves it off intentionally due to a lack of care, not caring about prayer, not valuing it, and being indifferent to it, then he only has to repent to Allah, for he has committed disbelief, and he must repent, and he does not have to make it up according to the stronger of the scholars' opinions. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good.
He says: I left off prayer out of ignorance, so is it obligatory for me to make it up?
Answer:
Yes, you must make up the prayer if you were ignorant at the beginning of your youth, and then you understood. You must make it up and pray what you left off out of ignorance. However, if you did it intentionally, with the intention of not caring about prayer, then you are a disbeliever by this, and you do not have to make it up except through repentance.
As for when there are reasons for it, ignorance has reasons, such as being sick, or something similar, where you thought that prayer was not obligatory upon you, then you make it up. When it is clarified to you and you know, you make up what you missed. Like the sick person who thought he did not have to pray until he recovered, until he was able to pray while standing. This person prays what he left off when he recovers. If he does not recover, he prays in his current state, standing, sitting, or on his side.
Likewise, some people, if they thought that if water was not available they did not have to pray until water was available, this is a doubt. This person also prays and makes up what he missed, because his leaving it off was due to a doubt, not with the intention of deliberate disobedience.
So the conclusion is: if a person leaves it off intentionally due to an interpretation or a doubt, then he makes it up. But if he leaves it off intentionally due to a lack of care, not caring about prayer, not valuing it, and being indifferent to it, then he only has to repent to Allah, for he has committed disbelief, and he must repent, and he does not have to make it up according to the stronger of the scholars' opinions. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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