Missing The Prayer

[umm Zachariah]

From Nawfal Ibn Mu`aawiyah, radhiallahu anhu, that the Prophet (p.b.u.h.) said: "Whoever missed the prayer, then it is as if he had lost his family and his wealth." (Ibn Hibban in his Sahih and it occurs in Saheehut-Targheeb 576)


How would you feel, O Muslim brother, if you were to lose your precious son? How would you feel if you lost your wife? What pain would you feel if you lost your family? What would your grief be like if you lost both your family and your wealth? Indeed it would be an agonizing blow and terrible grief that a person should lose his family and wealth. Losing his family with whom he lived with and experienced such joy. The spacious earth would seem constricted for one who lost his family. He would experience distress, grief and agony. Then how about one who in addition lost his wealth? Fresh and sweet wealth which Allah made a support for us, how would you feel if that occurred, too? Then know that one who misses the prayer has indeed suffered a huge loss. (End of the chapter)


Summarized notes from the chapter on "The excellence of the prayer and its wiping away of sins and evil deeds":


1. Allah wipes away sins through the five daily prayers.


2. Prayer is an expiation of what is committed between them, as long as major sins are avoided.


3. Sins destroy a person and ignite a fire for him which he must extinguish with prayers.


4. The Muslim may reach the station of the sincere, the truthful and the martyrs through prayer, Zakat and fasting.


5. Prayer's excellence over other actions.


6. Allah the Most High blessed the companion by entering him into Paradise before his brother, the martyr, and that was because he performed more prayers than him.


7. Prayer is a light which will make the way clear for the servant in this life and the Hereafter.


8. The way to achieve companionship of the Prophet (p.b.u.h.) in Paradise is to increase in performance of prostration and prayer.


9. Performance of two Rak'ahs (units) would be more beloved to a deceased person than the world and all that it contains.


10.Turning with one's heart to Allah in the prayer fully and sincerely, causes the Muslim to be as he was on the day his mother gave birth to him (i.e. free from sin).


By: Shaikh Husayn al Awaaishah


Source: islaam.com

[AbuMubarak]

A student from a Muslim country went to London to study. He boarded


with a British family in order to enhance his language skills. He


was true to his religious principles and would wake up for the


Morning Prayer early. He would make his ablution, go to his place of


prayer, prostrate to his Lord, glorify Him, and praise Him. An old


lady in the house was always keen to observe his foreign habits, She


asked him after a few days, "What are you doing?" "My religion


orders me to do this," was his reply. "Couldn't you delay saying


this prayer until after you get your complete rest?" He


answered, "But my Lord does not accept from me my prayer if I delay


it until after its fixed time period." She shook her head and


exclaimed, "A will that shatters steel!"


"Men whom neither trade nor sale diverts them from the Remembrance


of Allah [with heart and tongue] nor from performing As-Salaat [the


prayers]." Surah An-Nur – Ayah 37.


Such action springs from the determination of faith, which was


inspired to the sorcerers of Fir'aun. They were inspired to believe


in Allah, the Lord of all that exists, at the moment when Prophet


Moosa and Fir'aun faced off against one another. They said to


Fir'aun:


"We prefer you not over the clear signs that have come to us, and to


Him [Allah] created us. So decree whatever you desire to decree."


Surah Ta-Ha – Ayah 72.


It was a challenge to Fir'aun that was unheard of up until that


moment. Their mission suddenly became to convey the true and


Powerful message of Monotheism to the haughty atheist.


Habeeb ibn Zayd (may Allah be pleased with him) went to Musaylamah


in order to call him to Islam. In response, Musaylamah began to chop


off limb after limb from Habeeb's body. During this process that was


drawn out in order to make Habeeb suffer, he did not cry, scream, or


shake – until the very end, when he met his Lord as a martyr.


"And the martyrs are with their Lord, they shall have their reward


and their light." Surah Al-Hadid – Ayah 19.


Wasalaamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

[Muslimah]

Jazakum Allah khairan for putting this info on the importance of prayer here for our new brothers and sisters to Islam would make note of it.