He is not required to make up for the Prayers He abandoned

Question :

Previously, I would not pray, then Allah blessed me with guidance and I have become diligent about performing it. My question concerns the prayers during those past years; do I have to make them up for, or not?

Answer:

When a person abandons prayer for a number of years, then repents and observes it, he is not required to make up the prayers he abandoned. If this were a condition of the acceptance of repentance, it would discourage many people from repenting. The one who repents is ordered only to strictly observe them in future, to perform many supererogatory prayers, righteous acts and good deeds, to draw near to Allah and to fear Him.

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