Episode 5

Abu Usamah – The Major Sins Series: 05 – Missing Salah/Prayer

About this lecture

In this lecture, Sheikh Abu Usamah addresses the fourth major sin (*kabira*) from Imam Al-Dhahabi's *Kitab Al-Kabair*: leaving off the *Salat* (prayer). He examines the scholarly disagreement over whether the one who abandons the prayer out of laziness is a disbeliever (*kafir*) or simply a sinner, presenting the Quranic and Hadith evidences cited by Imam Al-Dhahabi alongside the positions of the Companions, the four *madhabs*, and major scholars including Ibn Hazm, Ibn Al-Qayyim, Ibn Baz, and Ibn Uthaymeen. The lecture serves as a powerful reminder of the central, irreplaceable status of the *Salat* in Islam and a call to the Muslim community to take the prayer with the seriousness it deserves.