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Consequences and punishment of not offering salaah

🎓 Shaikh Ibn al-`Uthaymeen رحمه الله

🚩The consequences of abandoning the prayers (summarized):

🚫1. The one who abandons the prayers is a Kaafir. He is like the one who has apostatized from the religion.

🚫2. He is not allowed to marry a Muslim girl/woman. If a girl is already married to a person who has abandoned prayers, then this marriage becomes invalid. If the person repents and starts praying, then the marriage contract has to be renewed.

🚫3. He cannot act as a Wali (male guardian) for his Muslim daughters or other female relatives.

🚫4. He cannot be a guardian to his children or have custody over them. Allaah has not given authority to a Kaafir over a Muslim.

🚫5. The animal he slaughters is Haraam to consume. One of the conditions for the slaughter to be Halaal is that the slaughterer should be a Muslim or from the People of the Book (Jew or Christian). The apostate is not one of them, so whatever he slaughters is Haraam to eat.

🚫6. He is not permitted to enter Makkah and its vicinity.

🚫7. If he dies upon this, he will not be washed or shrouded.

🚫8. Janaazah (funeral) prayer will not be offered for him.

🚫9. He will not be buried in the Muslim cemetery. He will be buried along with Kuffaar or in a far of place.

🚫10. It is not allowed for those who knew that he had abandoned prayers to seek forgiveness for him.

📚 [Fiqhul `Ibaadaat (pg. 149-150)]

Pay heed

Punishment of not offering salaah, benamaazi ko saza, bemamaazi ki namaaz e janazah, jo namaaz nahi padta uski saza aur janazah ki namaaz, consequences of not performing salaah, namaaz nahi padne wale ki saza

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