Is a man's Hajj valid and sufficient for him as Hajjat al-Islam if he performed it, then became negligent in prayer and abandoned it, then repented?
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The Hajj performed by someone who is an unbeliever does not suffice for the Hajj of Islam. However, if a person was a Muslim, performed Hajj, then apostatized and subsequently repented, their Hajj remains valid. This is because they performed it while being a Muslim. The deeds of an apostate are not nullified unless they die upon disbelief, as Allah Almighty says: (And whoever of you reverts from his religion and dies while he is a disbeliever - for those, their deeds have become worthless in this world and the Hereafter, and those are the companions of the Fire; they will abide therein eternally.) Al-Baqarah/217.
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