What is the ruling on one who abandons prayer due to the difficulty and cost of purification and the impurity of most areas of the house?
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Abandoning prayer is a grave sin; in fact, it is greater than adultery, theft, drinking alcohol, and taking a life, by consensus. It is considered disbelief by many scholars. There is no excuse for anyone to abandon it. What you mentioned about impurity appears to stem from waswasa (whispers/obsessive thoughts). Even if impurity were widespread in a place, it is sufficient to place a pure mat to pray on. Purity is a simple matter; it is enough to wash the limbs required for purity once, and increasing the washes in (ritual bath) or wudu (ablution) is from waswasa. Maintain your prayers and beware of abandoning them.
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