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Are the good deeds a person does not accepted or do they remain suspended if he is not someone who prays?

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According to those who hold that abandoning prayer is major disbelief (kufr akbar), the one who abandons it is judged as a disbeliever. He is rewarded for his deeds in this world with health and wealth. However, if he dies as a disbeliever, his deeds are rendered void, and he will not be rewarded for them in the Hereafter, based on the Almighty's saying: {And what prevented their contributions from being accepted from them except that they disbelieved in Allah and His Messenger...} (Qur'an 9:54), and {If you associate others with Allah, your work will surely become worthless, and you will surely be among the losers} (Qur'an 39:65), and {And We will approach what they did of deeds and make them as scattered dust} (Qur'an 25:23). Sheikh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah said that disbelievers are rewarded for their good deeds in this world, but if they die in a state of disbelief, their deeds are nullified in the Hereafter. However, if they die in a state of faith, they will be rewarded for what they did while they were disbelievers, based on the Prophet's (peace be upon him) saying to Hakim ibn Hizam: "You have embraced Islam with your past good deeds."

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