To what extent is the authenticity of what has been reported that abandoning one prayer leads to Hellfire for sixty thousand years, and abandoning Dhuhr is equivalent to killing a thousand Muslims, and abandoning Asr demolishes the Kaaba, and Maghrib is like committing adultery with one's parents, and Isha removes blessings?
Firstly, deliberately abandoning the obligatory prayer is considered one of the greatest sins and major transgressions, and its sin is greater than murder, adultery, theft, and drinking alcohol, as stated in His Almighty's saying: (Then succeeded them a generation who neglected prayers and pursued lusts; so they are going to meet evil). Abdullah ibn Mas'ud, may Allah be pleased with him, clarified that maintaining prayers is a sign of faith, and that whoever abandons them is a known hypocrite.
Secondly, the mentioned discourse regarding the threat against those who abandon prayer and the details of the heinousness of this act, with the specificity stated, has no basis and is false.
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