The Ruling on Missing a Single Prayer (Salah) | Shaykh Salih al Fawzan

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The Ruling on Abandoning Salah Out of Laziness – Even a Single Salah In this video, Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan explains the ruling on abandoning salah out of laziness — even if it is only a single salah. 🔎 Clarification: The meaning of abandonment is: - ❌ The non-performance of the act. ⚠️ Ruling: If the time of salah comes and a person does not perform it — neither with the congregation 👥 nor alone — and he deliberately neglects it, then he becomes a kafir. 📖 Evidence from Hadith: “The covenant that is between us and them is al-salah; whoever abandons it has disbelieved.” — Reported by Ahmad, al-Tirmidhi, al-Nasa’i, Ibn Majah, and others. ✅ The Shaykh’s Answer: Yes, he becomes a disbeliever. It is obligatory upon him to: 1. Repent to Allah 2. Return to Islam again 3. Perform the salah he deliberately abandoned ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Citations & References: 📌 1. Official Fatwa of Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_F-7swoeI8 2. Statement of Imam Ishaq ibn Rahwayh: (Pg, 969) https://archive.org/details/ta9asa/page/n969/mode/2up 3. Statement of Imam Ishaq ibn Rahwayh: (Vol, 2. Pg, 263) archive.org/details/Al-Tamhid_Muwatta/Al_Tamhid_2/page/262/mode/2up?view=theater 4. Statement of Imam Abdullah ibn Shaqiq: (Vol, 3. Pg, 44) https://archive.org/details/20240804_20240804_2120/page/43/mode/2up 5. Statement of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal: (Pg, 927) https://archive.org/details/ta9asa/page/n927/mode/2up 6. Statement of Hafith Al-Tahawi: (Vol, 4. Pg, 393) https://archive.org/details/03-33783/04_28165/page/n391/mode/2up 7. Statement of Shaykh Ibn Baz: (Vol, 29. Pg, 181) https://archive.org/details/fatawa-wa-maqalat-06/FatawaWaMaqalat29/page/181/mode/2up?view=theater ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ Reminder: Salah is the dividing line between Islam and kufr. This is not a minor issue — the scholars of Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jama‘ah have spoken with one voice about its seriousness. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #Islam #Muslim #Quran #Sunnah #Hadith #Deen #IslamicReminder #IslamicVideo #IslamicKnowledge #IslamicLectures #IslamicContent #IslamicGuidance #Prayer #Salah #Salat #Fajr #Dhuhr #Asr #Maghrib #Isha #ImportanceOfPrayer #LeavingPrayer #MissingPrayer #AbandoningSalah #DailyPrayer #IslamicPrayer #Kufr #Tawheed #Aqeedah #IslamicRulings #Fatwa #Fatawa #IslamicFiqh #NullifiersOfIslam #MajorShirk #MinorShirk #IslamicLaw #Fiqh #MuslimYouth #IslamicMotivation #IslamicTalks #SeekingKnowledge #Dawah #IslamicAwareness #Faith #IslamicTruth #IslamicChannel #ShaykhFawzan #IbnBaz #ScholarsOfIslam #AhlusSunnah #Salaf #Salafi #Ulama #IslamicScholars #TrueIslam