The Islamic History Book
The concept of the Islamic world is useful in observing the different periods of Islamic history, similarly useful is an understanding of the identification with a quasi-political community of believersAbandoning or Neglecting Salaat
Ibn Taymiyah Ibn Taymiyah How Can a Person Still be Muslim If He Reaches the Point of Being Executed and Still Insists on not Praying?
Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid
Dear Shaykh May Allaah increase you in good, the issue of the hukm on the one abandoning the salah has differences of opinions amongst the people of truth. After reading your fatawa and knowing the opinions of the salaf like the well known view of Imaam Ahmad [ra] , what seems to be the truth based upon evidences is that abandoning the salah is Kufr which takes one outside the fold of Islaam. However in the opposing argument there is something I do not understand, Imaaam Shafiee and Imaam Malik [ra] and others said, 'To be killed but not kaafir', so he would be buried amongst the muslims. But if a person had to be killed for abandoning the salah having been given chance to repent how can he still be a muslim? He has prefered death over praying so by necessity must be a Kaafir. Please explain. JazakAllaahu Khairan
Holy Qur Holy Qur Advising one who does not Pray
Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid
I've a friend who likes to pray five times a day, and he likes to advise others to pray. He'll listen to whatever I talk about Islam. Whenever I approach him he'll listen to me and I tell him, why can't you pray? He told me he will, and I have heard this for the past ten to twenty years. One day I call him to pray and he gives excuses. I think that during prayer time his mind goes somewhere else; after that he thinks why can't I pray? . I am very tired of telling him. I need advice.
Good Deeds Good Deeds He Goes Back to Sleep After Waking Without Praying
Shaykh Sa’d al-Humayd
I have on some occasins awoken either at the very point of Fajr or a little before its time and have gone back to sleep, I on 2 occasins was aware that it was Fajr time and slept, I then heard that Shaykh Abdul Azeez Ibn Abdullaah Ibn Baaz [May Allaah have mercy on him] said such a person is a kaafir [Murtaad] is this correct? and what is the correct view according to the Ahlul Sunnaah Wal Jammaah? [If so what do I do?] Another question was, If I miss the Asr Salaah [The entire time passed and I did not preform the prayer for it] do I become a kaafir? [However I still offer my 5 times fard salaah daily] I am aware that all my good deeds are lost for the day according to a narration in Saheeh Al Bukharee, however I ask you, Who I know is guided upon the haqq and on the tareeqah of Rasulullaah [SalAllaahu Alayhi Wa Sallaam]
Abandoning Or Neglecting Salaat Abandoning Or Neglecting Salaat Father of Fiancée does not Pray
Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid
What should be done for a valid marriage contract if the father of the fiancée does not pray?
Scholarly Consensus Scholarly Consensus He Uttered the Shahaadatayn But He does not Do Any of the Obligatory Duties
Majmoo’ Fataawa Ibn Taymiyah, 18/67
What is the ruling on a man who says, “I bear witness that there is no god but Allaah, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger,” but he does not pray or do any of the obligatory duties, and he thinks that this will not affect him and that he will go to Paradise, and that his body will be forbidden for the Fire?And another man says, “I ask for what I need from Allaah and from you” is this false or not? is it permissible to say this or not?
Azeez Ibn Azeez Ibn Should She Do Hajj and Give Charity on Behalf of Her Mother who Did not Pray?
Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah li’l-Buhooth al-‘Ilmiyyah wa’l-Ifta [11/113.
Is it permissible for a daughter to do Hajj and give charity on behalf of her deceased mother, knowing that the mother did not pray when she was alive?.
Prophet Peace Prophet Peace Ruling on one who Neglects Prayer
[From Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah, 6/49]
The saheeh ahaadeeth state clearly that the one who neglects prayer is a kaafir. If we take the hadeeth at face value, it appears that we are obliged to deprive the person who neglects prayer deliberately of all his rights of inheritance, a separate cemetery should be allocated for such people, and we cannot pray for them or greet them with salaam, because there is no greeting of peace for a kaafir. Let us not forget that if we were to calculate the number of men, believers and non-believers alike, who pray, we will find it is only 6%, and among women the number is even less. What does Islam have to say about this? What is the ruling about giving or returning the greeting of salaam to one who neglects prayer?
Abandoning Or Neglecting Salaat their Father Tells Them to Pray and Adhere to the Teachings of Islam But He does not Pray
Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid
my dad knew every thing about what do you have to do to be a muslem, and he always tell us to do what god ask us to do and he always tell us or show us the right way and he love the god he always tell us to pray and fast everything that make god yerdah anna , but he never did them and never say anthing bad about the islam and he want everybody to be a muslem , but he never pray or fast or anything like that ; what do you call that ? what should we do ?
Good Deeds Good Deeds Ruling on a Dispute Between Two Brothers
From Fataawaa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah, 12/363
My father and my uncle – my father’s brother – are always arguing. We live in one house, with only a dividing wall between us. My father is single and my uncle is single; my mother has died and my uncle’s wife has died. I always advise them not to fight, but sometimes my uncle picks on my father. How can I advise both of them – my father and my uncle? Please note that my father prays and fasts, and my uncle prays sometimes and not at other times, but he does fast.
Good Deeds Good Deeds Ruling on one who Reads Qur’aan But does not Pray
Fataawa Samaahat al-Imaam ‘Abd-Allaah ibn Humayd, p. 86
I used to read Qur’aan every day but I did not pray. I heard some people say that it is haraam for a person who does not pray to read Qur’aan, so I stopped reading Qur’aan. is this right? Please advise us, may Allaah reward you with good.