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1137 - تارِكُ الصَّلاةِ وَالكُفرُ

1137. ABANDONMENT OF THE PRAYER AND DISBELIEF

(فِي جَنَّاتٍ يَتَساءَلُونَ * عَنِ الْمُجْرِمِينَ * ما سَلَكَكُمْ فِي سَقَرَ * قالُوا لَمْ نَكُ مِنَ المُصَلِّينَ).1

“[They will be] in gardens, questioning concerning the guilty: ‘What drew you into Hell?’ They will answer, ‘We were not among those who prayed.”2

3642.رسولُ اللَّهِ صلى اللَّه عليه وآله: مابينَ المسلمِ وبينَ الكافِرِ إلّا أن يَترُكَ الصَّلاةَ الفَريضَةَ مُتَعَمِّداً، أو يَتهاوَنَ بها فلا يُصَلِّيَها.3

3642.The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘It only takes for a Muslim to deliberately abandon the performance of the daily obligatory prayer or to not perform it out of carelessness, for him to become an infidel (kafir).’4

3643.الإمامُ الصّادقُ عليه السلام - لَمّا سُئلَ عن عِلَّةِ تَسمِيَةِ تارِكِ الصَّلاةِ كافِراً دونَ الزّاني - : لأِنَّ الزانيَ وما أشبَهَهُ إنَّما يَعمَلُ ذلكَ لِمَكانِ الشَّهوَةِ لأ نّها تَغلِبُهُ، وتارِكَ الصَّلاةِ لا يَترُكُها إلّا استِخفافاً بها .5

3643. Imam al-Sadiq (AS) was once asked why the one who abandons the prayer is considered an infidel and not the fornicator, to which he replied, ‘Because the fornicator and other [such sinners] commits the sin out of a desire that overcomes him, whereas the one who abandons the prayer only does so because he does not take it seriously, deeming it insignificant.’6

1.المدّثّر : ۴۰ - ۴۳ .

2.Qur’an ۷۴:۴۰-۴۳

3.ثواب الأعمال : ۲۷۵ / ۱ .

4.Thawab al-Amal, p. ۲۷۵, no. ۱

5.علل الشرائع : ۳۳۹ / ۱ .

6.Ilal al-Shara’i , p. ۳۳۹, no. ۱

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