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Being lax in performing some of the wajib duties
Original (Arabic): https://binbaz.org.sa/fatwas/15/التكاسل-عن-اداء-بعض-الواجبات
Question: What is the ruling on one who affirms the tawhid of Allah, the Exalted, but is lax in performing some of the obligatory duties?
Answer: He becomes deficient in iman, and likewise whoever commits some acts of disobedience, his iman decreases in the view of Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah, because they say that iman is speech, action, and belief; it increases through obedience and decreases through disobedience. An example of this is abandoning the fasting of Ramadan without an excuse, whether all of it or part of it; this is a major sin that decreases iman and weakens it, and some scholars declare one who does so to be in kufr.
However, the correct view is that he does not fall into kufr on account of that, so long as he acknowledges the obligation, but merely broke the fast on some days out of laxity and laziness.
Likewise, if he delays zakat past its due time out of negligence, or abandons paying it altogether, this is a sin and a weakness in iman, and some scholars declare him a kafir for abandoning it.
Likewise, if he severs ties of kinship or is undutiful to his parents, this is a deficiency in iman and a weakness in it, and likewise the rest of the sins.
As for abandoning the salah, it negates iman and necessitates apostasy, even if one does not deny its obligatory nature, according to the more correct of the two scholarly opinions; because of the saying of the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him: The head of the matter is Islam, its pillar is the salah, and the peak of its hump is jihad in the path of Allah.and his saying, may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him: The covenant which is between us and them is the salah; whoever abandons it has committed kufr. In other hadiths that indicate that.[1].
However, the correct view is that he does not fall into kufr on account of that, so long as he acknowledges the obligation, but merely broke the fast on some days out of laxity and laziness.
Likewise, if he delays zakat past its due time out of negligence, or abandons paying it altogether, this is a sin and a weakness in iman, and some scholars declare him a kafir for abandoning it.
Likewise, if he severs ties of kinship or is undutiful to his parents, this is a deficiency in iman and a weakness in it, and likewise the rest of the sins.
As for abandoning the salah, it negates iman and necessitates apostasy, even if one does not deny its obligatory nature, according to the more correct of the two scholarly opinions; because of the saying of the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him: The head of the matter is Islam, its pillar is the salah, and the peak of its hump is jihad in the path of Allah.and his saying, may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him: The covenant which is between us and them is the salah; whoever abandons it has committed kufr. In other hadiths that indicate that.[1].
- Majmu' Fatawa Ibn Baz (1/55).