What is the ruling on the marriage between a Muslim man who does not pray and a woman who is a recent convert to Islam and does not pray, given that both began to pray and commit to their faith a month after their marriage?
If a man abandons prayer, denying its obligation, he is unanimously considered a disbeliever, and his marriage to a Muslim woman is invalid. However, if he acknowledges its obligation but leaves it out of laziness, the majority of scholars do not consider him a disbeliever, and his marriage is valid.
Abandoning prayer in congregation is not disbelief.
A woman is considered Muslim by merely uttering the two testimonies of faith, and her leaving prayer for a period while learning its rulings does not make her a disbeliever. She must make up the prayers she missed after her conversion to Islam, and the husband must make up all the prayers he missed.
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