Is it permissible for the marriage officiant to عقد نكاح (solemnize the marriage of) a person who does not pray, and is the marriage contract void in this case?
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If you know that one of the spouses does not pray, do not perform the marriage contract for them with the other; because abandoning prayer is disbelief (kufr), based on the Prophet's (peace be upon him) saying: "Between a man and polytheism and disbelief is the abandonment of prayer," and his saying: "The covenant between us and them is prayer; whoever abandons it has disbelieved."
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