It is not allowed to make friends with those who deliberately forgo their obligatory solah, instead we have to show enmity towards them. We should not get acquainted with them, love them, or live in the same dwelling with them.
We behave so because these offenders clearly oppose the commands of Allah and His messenger. Allah has said:
لاَ تَجِدُ قَوْمًا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللّٰهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الآخِر يُوَالدُّونَ مَن حَادَّ اللّٰهَ وَرَسُولَهُ
وَلَوْ كَانُوْا آبَاءَهُم أَوْ أَبْنَاهُم
You will not find a group of people who believe in Allah and the hereafter, in amity with those who stand against Allah and His messenger – even if those were their own fathers or their own children.
(to the end of verse).
Making Up Missed Solah
Those who miss their solah being unwary of the time (i.e. being overslept or forgetful) are excused provided that:
- They immediately make up the solah once aware of the mistake.
- They repent and vow not to repeat the mistake.
Other than the above, it is a grave sin to deliberately miss a solah, even if it is made up afterwards. There is no excuse in skipping solah for the sake of trying to accomplish some worldly pursuit no matter how important.
People of authority are responsible to make sure his populace perform the 5 obligatory solah, the jama’ah and the Friday solah. Whoever miss them should be dealt with force.
For those who are simply too lazy (but they do admit obligationof solah), the authority should ask them to repent and force them to start doing solah. Then if they still resist, capital punishment is not too harsh a sentence upon them.
The authority, be it the king, president, or community leader who fail to enforce obligation of solah (or for that matter, obligatory fasting or zakah) is considered a sinner. This responsibility is not to be taken lightly.
Ustaz Zakaria added:
- All forms of worship must be done the right way (on basis of knowledge) so they don’t become helter-skelter.
- The opinion that missed solah need not be made up is a khariji – outside of ulama consensus, and rejected.
- It is preferred that you make up solah immediately if you miss it being unwary of time.
- It is compulsory that you make up solah immediately if you miss it deliberately.
- The community leader’s responsibility is not only to administer affairs of his people, he should also see that each person fulfil obligation to Allah.
- Your country implement Islamic law or not, you still responsible to guide your populace to obey Allah.
- Never punish your populace if you are not authorized (by your superiors) to met out punishment. But you still should command them to do good and prevent from doing evil (amar ma’ruf nahi munkar).
- It is bizarre that some people avoid marrying more than 1 wives on the grounds of afraid being unjust. Yet they pursue political positions, which always carry the tendency to be unjust (to thousands of people under his jurisdiction).
Wallahu a'lam
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