Is forgiveness granted to one who has abandoned most prayers for a long period if he repents and fulfills all conditions of repentance and makes up for the missed prayers? And does he fall under the scope of the verse: "For those, Allah will change their evil deeds into good ones"? And are all the punishments mentioned for those who abandon prayer, such as what is stated in the hadith: "The first thing a servant will be called to account for among his deeds is his prayer. If it is sound, he will have succeeded and prospered. If it is corrupt, he will have failed and lost," lifted from him?
There is no difference in the validity and acceptance of repentance, with its conditions, between abandoning prayer and other sins. The aforementioned hadith does not indicate the invalidity of the prayer of one who repents from abandoning prayer, but rather the invalidity of the deed of one whose prayer is invalid. And the prayer of the repentant is not invalid, especially with their making up for missed prayers. Some scholars have even gone so far as to say that repentance for neglecting prayer is not valid unless it is made up.
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