Dear brother,
All praise to the almighty, Allah
This post is with reference to your question regarding the importance of ‘salah’.
You asked me if i don’t pray, is there any problem?
And I told you that it is like, signing at a workplace. Actually this is a weak example.
Because the ‘salah’ even though is an act of signing the presence before allah, it is not like signing for a work.
In fact ‘salah’ is a ‘sweet signing’.
We haven’t tasted a bit of the true taste of ‘salah’. If we did, you would not have asked this question.
‘Salah’ allah mentions very strictly from the childhood to practice. Not to punish us for not doing it.
Allah says about it and the punishments of avoiding, inorder to arouse in us a habit of performing ‘salah’.
About ‘Salah’ Allah says, “Assalathu mi’rajul mu’minin’. Salah is a way of hugging Allah.
Each day, a man is involved in a variety of tasks.
It is human nature to forget Allah. Inorder to refresh the remembrance of Allah, Allah keep the ‘salah’.
Allah is devoid of any needs. He dont need our ‘salah’. But He put it for us to get closer to Him. He blessed us with ‘salah’.
In the beginning there was 50 waqth salah, instead of what we see today as 5 waqth. Then Rasool(SAW) asked Allah, to reduce
the number till 5, bcoz our beloved prophet knows best about us.
In Islam there, are 4 categories of people.
1. People with good faith, weak deeds
2. People with no faith, good deeds
3. People with no faith, no deeds
4. People with good faith, good deeds
Among these, the best one is no doubt, the fourth. The second ranked category is People with good faith, weak deeds.
These 2 categories are dwellers of Jannah, if allah will. The rest are dwellers of jahannam.
That is the importance of faith.
Faith comes through knowledge and not through actions. ‘Salah’ in fact is an overflow of our faith within. It is not a task
to be accomplished. It is effortless. It is sweet. It is the short time when Allah come down from Arsh in front of a beleiver.
It is happiest moment of a beleiver, when he comes close to his lord. The reward for ‘Salah’ is the ‘Salah’ itself.
If you lose a waqt of ‘Salah’, Allah the all merciful, may not punish you, but what you are missing is the munajat(speech) with your lord.
Allah says to maintain the state of Salah all time, for leading a righteous life.
However high we reach, in the spiritual world of Islam, the basic pillars always remain.
Even my Shaikoona, while offering the bayan(speech), if adhan is called, stops his speech and command the crowd to go for
salah. That is the obedience of a slave before his lord.
Each time when adhan is called Allah is calling us sweetly to hug Him. When we answer to that call we benefit ourselves.
Let us answer to that sweet call..
ALLAHU AKBAR ALLAHU AKBAR
ALLAHU AKBAR ALLAHU AKBAR
ASHADU AN LA ILAHA ILLALLAH..
ASHADU AN LA ILAHA ILLALLAH..
ASHADU ANNA MUHAMMADAN RASOOLULLAH..
ASHADU ANNA MUHAMMADAN RASOOLULLAH..
HAYYA LA SWALAH..
HAYYA LA SWALAH..
HAYYA LAL FALAH..
HAYYA LAL FALAH..
ALLAHU AKBAR ALLAHU AKBAR..
LA ILLAHA ILLALLAH..
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