Ruling on offering missed prayers
I had not offered Salah for thirty years, do i need to make up for the missed prayers by offering them along with regular prayers
Answer
If a Muslim repents from failing to pray, then Allah, may He be exalted, will turn to him in mercy. Repentance means regretting his shortcomings and negligence, starting to pray regularly and resolving not to go back to missing prayers once again.
This repentance is sufficient, if Allah wills, and he does not have to make up the prayers that he missed, but the more supererogatory prayers (regular Sunnah prayers and others) he offers the better, and that is a sign of repenting properly.
At-Tirmidhi (413) narrated that Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) say: “The first of his deeds for which a person will be brought to account on the Day of Resurrection will be his prayer. If it is in order, then he will have succeeded and done well, and if it is lacking, then he will have failed and lost.
If anything is lacking from his obligatory prayer, the Lord, may He be glorified and exalted, will say: ‘Look and see whether My slave has any voluntary prayers to his credit.’ Then what is lacking from his obligatory prayers will be completed from that. Then all his deeds will be dealt with in like manner.” Al-Albani classed it as sahih in Sahih at-Tirmidhi.
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