Section:

The circumstances that remove the obligation to make up missed duties and to relinquish what is forbidden are: outward disbelief, inward disbelief, disbelief from the outset, apostasy, and excusable ignorance—whether because the revealed command has not reached a person or because of a conflicting interpretation based on independent judgment or following another’s authority.

He was asked:

About people affiliated with religious teachers who lead them to repent of highway robbery, murder, and theft, and require them to pray, since they pray in the customary manner of the Bedouins: must the prescribed requirements of prayer be observed or not?

He replied:

As for prayer, Allah Most High has said:

“So woe to those who pray,
who are heedless of their prayer,
who show off,
and withhold even small acts of kindness.”

And He Most High has said: “But they were succeeded by generations who neglected prayer and followed their desires; so they will