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Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wa barakatuhu alhamdulillah wa sallam wa sallam

wa ala Rasulillah wa ala'alihi wa sahbihi wa man wa l-hamabat.

Welcome to another Q&A on Tuesdays with our Q&A and as usual the email address you

should all be aware of ask why Q at epicmessjid.org and once again I reiterate that I am only

able to select questions of a generic nature that are going to benefit larger groups of people

unfortunately I am unable to answer individual questions. Please understand there's too

many questions to do that so please try to make your questions as pertinent to larger groups

of people as possible. So we begin today our first question, Sister Sumerah from India,

emails Mashallah Tabarakullah we have a large viewership in India and sister Sumerah says she

asks that she has seen a clip posted by an anti-Muslim website or Facebook page in which they

have a Muslim preacher in English saying that the one who abandons salah, one salah is worse

is a worse crime than the one who murders and the one who rapes and the one who steals and the

one who sells drugs etc etc etc and she says they are using this clip to show that Muslims are

fanatical and that a murderer is considered better than the one who misses even one salah. So she says

this clip has flustered her she wants to know is this what Islam says is this the opinion that

is the correct one or if I have any comments about this notion of salah you know the one who

doesn't pray being worse than the murderer. So dear Sister Sumerah this is actually a very

multi-layered question it's actually it will take a while to unpack but I want to begin by stating

that you shouldn't be surprised that anti-Muslim websites and Facebook pages they take such clips

and they make them viral you know the fact of the matter is that you know these types of entities

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