Is it permissible to declare someone who abandons prayer an apostate?
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The ruling on the one who abandons prayer was discussed in previous fatwas. As for declaring a specific individual who abandons prayer to be a disbeliever (takfir), it requires the fulfillment of conditions and the absence of impediments.
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