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all praise is due to Allah who created
man from clay the master and owner of
Judgment Day Allah who knows what we
conceal and knows what we reveal and
what leaves may fall and what the
animals feel and upon his messenger we
ask his Salah and his praise and we ask
to remain steadfast till the end of our
days struggling with Salah is something
that many Muslims have
experienced some have overcome and
triumphed While others were subd
we address those who gave up their Salah
and do not pray
anymore are you too busy to worship
Allah or perhaps too lazy or maybe even
too
arrogant or maybe you have a good heart
and are not in need of prayer and many
people say that they say that it's all
about the heart and that the external
actions are not
important so if the external actions are
not important why did the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam say
that the prayer is the pillar of the
religion whoever upholds it and performs
it he has upheld his Dean or his
religion and whoever leaves it or
destroys it he has destroyed his
religion and it's one of the five
pillars of Islam it's the second of the
Five Pillars and pillars are what hold
up a
foundation so if you don't pray then
what is your Islam standing upon what is
holding up your
Islam the
companion he asked the prophet
sallallahu alhi wasallam what is what is
the head or the most important
issue and the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam responded to
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him that the head or the most important
thing is Islam and its pillar and what
it stands upon is Salah
and the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam said there are five prayers
which Allah prescribed for his slave
during the day and the night whoever
does them and does not willfully neglect
them Allah will be bound to Grant him
admittance to paradise and whoever does
not do them he will have no such
guarantee and if Allah wills and if he
Wills meaning Allah he will punish him
and if he Wills he will grant him
admittance to Paradise so if you claim
that you have a good heart and that it's
sufficient for you not to pray then how
will your judgment be because we know
that the first thing you're going to be
asked about is prayer even before what's
in your heart before they get to what's
in your heart the first thing you'll be
asked about on the day of judgment is
your
prayer and the first matter the prophet
tells us in the Hadith the first matter
that the slave will be brought to
account for on the day of judgment is
the prayer if it is sound then the rest
of his deeds will be sound and if it's
bad then the rest of his deeds will be
bad so that means Salah is first and
foremost Allah subh says describing
people in the Quran
saying that verily Man was created
impatient he's irritable when evil
touches him so when bad things happen
he's
irritable and and he's stingy when good
touches him so when something good
happens he becomes stingy so aren't
these bad descriptions that someone is
impatient irritable when evil touches
him and then when good touches him he
becomes stingy these are bad
descriptions and they're indicative of a
bad heart so then how do you prevent
this and who is better and who's an
exception to this case Allah
continues except those who are devoted
to
Salah those who remain constant in their
prayers
so that means then that there is a
direct link between what is in the heart
and your
actions and we know that
saying is one of the keys to
Paradise to say that there is no God
worthy of worship but Allah is one of
the keys to Paradise but I ask you what
is the value of saying that there is no
God worthy of worship except Allah and
yet you don't worship Allah and Salah is
one of the greatest acts of worship done
with the body so how can you have a good
heart and not Pray when the prophet
sallallahu Alam said whoever leaves
Salah
disbelieves and some people say well I
don't harm others so it's not important
for Me Maybe Salah is important for
other people but not for me because I
don't harm others I don't do bad
things so how can the Salah not be
important for you if Allah mentions it
in the Quran more than 700
times and there are those who say that
the people who pray are the worst people
and that they're are liars and that
they're this and that and this is a
statement that many people make but
Allah makes a different kind of
statement Allah subh
says that verily Allah prevents the evil
and the wicked Deeds so who are we going
to
believe and then some people make the
excuse of laziness
and perhaps laziness is not the real
reason why you don't pray because you're
physically capable of doing many things
if a company hires you and they pay well
and they're going to give you benefits
but work just starts a little early
you're going to go on time and you're
going to strive and to struggle to make
it there on time so perhaps the reason
is that you don't know the benefits of
Salah and that's why you feel
lazy and if your airplane is going to
leave 3:00 a.m. or 4:00 a.m. and you
have to get up early to go to the
airport you're going to get up early and
you're going to rush to the
airport so how can one say that they're
not that they're lazy and they're not
capable when you find them at work
they're very energetic and they're very
hard
work too lazy to serve Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala and he's the one who has given
you all these blessings your health your
wealth your eyesight your intelligence
your loved ones and he's the one who
takes care of you every day and he
protects you from harm and from
calamities every single day and he gives
you the ability to recognize true
guidance and much of the creation is
astray so you should be ashamed to not
pray in front of Allah while he's taking
care of
you one of the early Muslims ibraim
Adam a man came to him and he said oh
Abu is I have many sins so give me
admonition so he wants him to tell him
something that will benefit him so he
can stop his sinning
so then ibraim tells him if you accept
these five conditions and you're able to
do them then no sin is going to harm you
so the man says give me the first so
ibraim tells him if you want to disobey
Allah then do not eat of his provision
do not eat if you want to disobey Allah
don't eat from what he provides for you
the food and drink and all these things
that he provides don't eat from it so
then the man says from where will I eat
then and everything on the Earth Is His
so then ibraim tells him is it
appropriate yet to eat from his
provision and disobey him so then the
man says no give me the second advice so
ibraim tells him if you want to disobey
Allah then do not stay in his lands so
the man says this is greater and then
where should I live then so then ibraim
tells him does it make sense to eat of
his provision and live in his land and
sin against him and the man says no give
me the third advice and he tells him if
you want to obey him while you're eating
of his provision and living in his land
then go somewhere where he cannot see
you so then he says oh ibraim and he is
the one who sees what is in the hearts
so then ibraim tells him is it suitable
to eat of the provision of Allah and
live in his land and then sin against
him while he sees you and knows what you
do so the man said no give me the fourth
advice and he says when the angel of
death comes to take your soul say give
me a chance to repent to Allah and to do
good deeds so the man says he won't
accept from me so ibraim tells him so if
you're not able to push death away so
you can repent and you know that when it
comes to it can't be delayed so how can
you expect to be saved so he says give
me the fifth so ibraim tells him when
the Angels come to take you to the
Hellfire don't go with them and the man
says they won't let me so he tells him
so how do you expect to be saved then
and he tells him enough enough oh
ibraim that I seek forgiveness with
Allah and I Repent to him and then it is
said that after that he took to the
worship of Allah and he stayed away from
sins until he died don't these
conditions apply to you don't you live
in Allah's land and eat of Allah's
provision so why don't you pray to the
one who takes care of
you perhaps as we said you are not aware
of the Excellence of Prayer in the book
of Muslim
narrates that the prophet sallallah alai
wasallam said the two Before Dawn prayer
before the F prayer are better than the
whole world and all that it
contains so we have not even begun to
talk about the five obligatory prayers
these are just two extra R you do before
the obligatory prayer before F prayer
two extra that are better than the whole
world and everything that's in it
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