Zakir Naik – Having Missed Salaah for Years Should We Make Up for Them All
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A customer named Mr. Zakirhair missed a series of prayers and is unsure when he will become Fard. The agent explains that the age of puberty depends on individual and that no exp rotation is necessary for missed prayers. The speakers discuss two opinions on whether a person should cover missed Salah for a year or just offer it at a time they missed it. The solutions offered include increasing the Nawafil and offering more charity, but they all lead to major sin.
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Hello, Mr. Zakir Naik, it's Iman from Afghanistan.
I'm 15 years old and I'm a Muslim.
I have two questions.
When does Salah become Fard for a person?
Is it the age of puberty or age
of 10?
Number two, what should we do about missed
prayers?
I unfortunately missed prayers for years.
Should we just repent or cover it?
And if I must cover it, how many
years should I cover?
Because I became adult in 14 and now
I'm 15.
Should I cover just one year or five
years?
The question posed by Iman from Afghanistan is
that at what age does it become Fard
for a person to offer Salah?
Is it the age of puberty or the
age of 10?
First, the name Iman is also of a
girl, also of a boy.
So I don't know whether the question posed
by the questioner, is it a male or
is it a female?
Is it a girl or is it a
boy?
We know that you are 15 years old,
but we don't know whether you are a
girl or a boy because Iman is a
name used for a boy as well as
for a girl.
But irrespect to what it is, the correct
age at which the Salah becomes Fard is
at the age of puberty.
And the age of puberty differs between different
people, between different *, whether it's male or
female, whether you're coming from a cold country
or a hot country, whether you're living in
India or Afghanistan or USA, it differs.
If you're a girl, the right age is
at puberty when you start having menstrual cycle.
A girl can start having menstrual cycle even
normally, it's between the age of 13-14.
Sometime it can be even 12, it can
even be 10.
I being a doctor, I'm aware that girls
even at the age of 9, they start
their menstrual cycle.
So the day a girl starts having menstrual
cycle is the day she reaches puberty and
from that time it becomes Fard on her
to offer Salah.
And for a boy also.
So the average age may be 13-14,
sometime it can relate to the age of
15.
And since you said that you reach puberty
at the age of 14, so that from
that time Salah becomes Fard for you.
If you're a boy, but naturally from the
time you start having pubic hair and the
signs of puberty comes, that's the time when
Salah becomes Fard.
And for a boy also it's similar.
It may be the age of 14, it
can be 15, it can be 13.
It varies between individuals.
So as far as you're concerned, since you
said that you reach the age of puberty
at the age of 14, then your Salah
becomes Fard from the age of 14.
And you said that now you're age of
15.
So you missed your Fard Salah for one
year, not five years.
Regarding the question that should you cover up
or should you catch up or should you
make up for the Fard Salah that you
have missed for the past one year or
should you just repent?
There are two opinions for this.
There's one opinion which says that you should
make up for it and as many times
as you offer your Fard or Zohar or
Asr or Maghrib or Isha, at the same
time you keep on offering an additional for
the time that you have missed.
This is one opinion, but the more correct
opinion is that if you have missed the
Salah intentionally and purposefully, there is no expiation.
Our beloved Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam said,
mentioned in Hadith of Sayyid Bukhari and Sayyid
Muslim that if a person forgets to offer
Salah, there's no expiation and the moment he
remembers, he should offer it.
Another narration says that if a person sleeps
and doesn't offer Salah, the moment he wakes
up, the moment he remembers, he should offer.
There is no expiation for that.
The moment he wakes up, he should offer
Salah.
So based on these and various Sayyid Hadith,
the Prophet was very emphatic and clear that
if you forget, if you miss your Salah
because of forgetfulness or because you're sleeping like
Fajr Salah, you oversleep, so there's no expiation
for it and the moment you remember it,
you should pray it immediately, you should not
wait till your next Salah is there, immediately
and Allah will not hold responsible, there's no
sin on that.
So the second opinion, which is the correct
opinion of the scholars, is that if you
miss it intentionally out of laziness or saying,
okay, I'll read after, then the Salah time
is over or you know it is far,
then you may only offer once in a
day or you may not offer at all
for many years.
According to the second opinion, which is the
more correct opinion, there is no expiation for
the Salah that you have intentionally missed.
It is a major sin.
It is a major sin.
So if you intentionally miss any Salah, it's
a major sin.
And the only remedy for this is that
you repent to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
You ask for forgiveness to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala and you repent and inshallah Allah
will forgive you and to compensate for that
which you have missed, there is no expiation,
but the scholars say that you can increase
your Nawafil Salah, the Sunnah Muqada, the Sunnah
Ghair Muqada, you increase that and do more
good deeds.
For example, give more charity, give more of
donation, so do more good deeds which will
compensate for the sins you have done.
But you don't have to repeat the Salah
you have missed and this is the more
correct and the authentic opinion which was even
followed by the second Caliph of Islam, that
is Umar bin Al-Khattab.
May Allah be pleased with him, including his
son, Abdullah bin Umar and various Sahabas.
So there are various Hadith that reaffirms that
for this it's a sin and there is
no compensation, like don't have to repeat your
Salah, it's a sin, you have to ask
for forgiveness and this was the view which
was also there by Ibn Hazm, may Allah
have mercy on him, even by Sheikh of
Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, even by Ibn Qayyim, even
by Shawqani, all these scholars, even by contemporary
scholars, whether it be Sheikh Bin Baz, Sheikh
Uthaymeen, Sheikh Nasir Dalmani, all of them say
that if you miss your Salah intentionally, then
you don't have to repeat it, you have
to ask for forgiveness and do more good
deeds, whether charity, more of Nawafil Salah, more
of the Sunnah Salah and this is the
correct opinion, even those people who say that
you have to read, they don't say that
once you read, it is like if you
have forgotten and if you offer your Salah
immediately and remember there is no sin, they
don't say that if you have missed and
if you offer Salah there is no sin,
they say that it is a major sin
but if you read then your sin becomes
less but the more correct opinion is what
I gave earlier that you don't have to
repeat it because imagine, suppose you realize at
the age of 50 that I should offer
Salah and the time that you had to
offer Salah was when you became an adult,
when you reached puberty, maybe at the age
of 14, so now you say for 36
years I did not offer Salah, now if
I have to read for all the 36
years, will I live that long?
so maybe you will say ok, since I
did not read Salah for 36 years, I
will not read for the rest of my
life so logically also, it doesn't make sense,
you have to ask for forgiveness, Inshallah I
will forgive you, you can read as many
more Sunnah Salah, Salah, Sunnah, Sunnah, Tahajjud Salah
and do other good deeds like extra fasting
and giving more charity so this opinion which
is more authentic opinion so for you also,
you missed your Salah for one year because
you reached puberty at the age of 14
but you don't have to repeat those Salah
which you missed for one year just see
to it that you increase your Nawafil, you
offer your Sunnah Muqada, Ghair Muqada, offer your
Tahajjud, offer in the last one third of
night, fast more, give more charity, Inshallah may
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala forgive you and
may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala increase in
your blessings.
Hope that's the question.