Salat the second most important pillar of Islam
I remember standing up to pray one day and someone saying to me: "Are you excited to pray?"
I had never thought of it like that. When we pray we are meeting the King of Kings. We are meeting the Lord of the Worlds. We should be excited to pray. We are speaking to our Creator. Salat is not a burden, it is a beautiful gift from our Lord.
The sad reality is today many Muslims do not pray five times Salat. Salat is the second pillar of Islam. It is second to faith. Our Lord has bestowed so many favours on us, yet many of us cannot even bow down our heads to pray. Five times Salat is compulsory wherever we are. Is it really worth disobeying our Lord simply because we are at work or a wedding? Iblis was the first one who refused to prostrate and he was thrown out of the heavens. We do not want to make Iblis happy by not prostrating. We want our Lord to be happy with us.
For those of us that do pray five times a day, this is not enough. Only we know the state of our Salat. Do we really value the fact that we are standing in front the Lord of the Worlds? There is always room for improvement. We need to acquire the knowledge of how to increase our concentration and ask Allah SWT to give us devotion in Salat. One method to improve concentration is to read the following 100 times in the morning and in the evening: the first Kalimah, Istighfaar and the third Kalimah.
Also those of us that do pray, but have family members that don't; we should not stay quiet on the matter. We should encourage them to pray. If we truly love someone for the sake of Allah and the sake of Allah alone, we should encourage them in matters of religion. To miss Salat is a grave sin and we should not want those we love to be committing major sins.
So today let's make a firm intention to never miss a single Salat and try our best to pray with concentration and devotion.
"Oh Lord, make me and my children steadfast in Salat."
I remember standing up to pray one day and someone saying to me: "Are you excited to pray?"
I had never thought of it like that. When we pray we are meeting the King of Kings. We are meeting the Lord of the Worlds. We should be excited to pray. We are speaking to our Creator. Salat is not a burden, it is a beautiful gift from our Lord.
The sad reality is today many Muslims do not pray five times Salat. Salat is the second pillar of Islam. It is second to faith. Our Lord has bestowed so many favours on us, yet many of us cannot even bow down our heads to pray. Five times Salat is compulsory wherever we are. Is it really worth disobeying our Lord simply because we are at work or a wedding? Iblis was the first one who refused to prostrate and he was thrown out of the heavens. We do not want to make Iblis happy by not prostrating. We want our Lord to be happy with us.
For those of us that do pray five times a day, this is not enough. Only we know the state of our Salat. Do we really value the fact that we are standing in front the Lord of the Worlds? There is always room for improvement. We need to acquire the knowledge of how to increase our concentration and ask Allah SWT to give us devotion in Salat. One method to improve concentration is to read the following 100 times in the morning and in the evening: the first Kalimah, Istighfaar and the third Kalimah.
Also those of us that do pray, but have family members that don't; we should not stay quiet on the matter. We should encourage them to pray. If we truly love someone for the sake of Allah and the sake of Allah alone, we should encourage them in matters of religion. To miss Salat is a grave sin and we should not want those we love to be committing major sins.
So today let's make a firm intention to never miss a single Salat and try our best to pray with concentration and devotion.
"Oh Lord, make me and my children steadfast in Salat."
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