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Yes—you. I hear you don’t pray?! What is this? You think it's a joke? Fix up! I’m telling you this because I care. Go on. Stand up. Make wudhu and pray. Right now! Don't wait for Ramaḍān! ------------- Question: What is the ruling on the fasting of someone who does not pray? Sheikh Uthaymeen raḥimahullāh: The fasting of someone who abandons prayer is not valid and not accepted, because the one who abandons prayer is a disbeliever who has left Islam. Allāh the Most High says: “But if they repent, establish prayer, and give zakah, then they are your brothers in religion.” And the Prophet ﷺ said: “Between a person and disbelief and shirk is abandoning the prayer.” He also said: “The covenant between us and them is the prayer; whoever abandons it has disbelieved.” This was the view of the majority of the Companions, if not their consensus. ʿAbdullah ibn Shaqeeq (may Allāh have mercy on him), one of the well-known successors (تابعين), said: “The Companions of the Prophet ﷺ did not consider abandoning any deed to be disbelief except the prayer.” Based on this, if a person fasts while not praying, then his fasting is rejected, not accepted, and will not benefit him before Allāh on the Day of Judgment. We say to him: Pray, then fast. As for fasting while not praying, your fasting is rejected, because acts of worship are not accepted from a disbeliever. [Majmooʿ Fatawa wa Rasa’il Shaykh Muhammad ibn Salih al-ʿUthaymeen, Volume 19 – Book of Fasting] Source: https://t.me/madrasatuna/5825