When you pray, what else do you do, other than converse with God? So, in answering the above question, it is God Himself and the religion that establishes the method of how to connect to Him and how and when to pray. All of us are praying, in one way, to one direction, and all at one time. You see, something else that you might not really be paying attention to is the Shaytani whispering that is distracting you, and giving you false pretences.
Praying, along with all its correct components, like mental preparation, understanding the meanings, presence of the heart, flavouring it with mustahab acts, will all be the best form of spiritual ascension. We know the famous tradition attributed to the Prophet s.
We all live hard and difficult lives, and we do need someone to lean on, and have a heart to heart conversation, without feeling judged or rejected. You are a believer, and you want to gain that tranquillity and inner-peace. You want to feel that connection, and build yourself. You want to show your gratitude.
You want to beseech and beg. Let me share this hadith with you from Imam Ali a. The five obligatory prayers for my Ummah is like a river flowing right at the doorstep of your house.
What do you think, if you had dirt on your body, and you were to wash yourself in that river five times a day, would there be any dirt left on your body? By Allah, the five daily prayers is like this…. So when we fall into the snare of Shaytan, and commit sin, the best way of reclaiming our soul, and cleansing it, and repenting, is by praying.
Imam al-Sadiq a. Resurrection without death is a lie. When you follow Jesus, you become heirs of the kingdom of heaven. Our Jesus is the one who prayed at dawn, busy but forced, with a habit.
Those who feared God always prayed. Daniel prayed when he was about to be thrown into a lion 's cave. The righteous prayed. The person of prayer is brave. Go into the closet. Do not be afraid of the shadow of death, but spread the cushion of prayer in search of the shadow of heaven. When Isaiah stood before God in Isaiah 6, the holiness and magnificence of the true Lord of the universe struck him with fear.
Isaiah was right to have this fear, the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord. Likewise, when we come to pray, there should be a degree of reluctance to pray. A reluctance to pray indicates that we recognize something of the holiness, transcendence and majesty of God in contrast to our smallness and corruption. This sense of distinction should be in the front of our mind when we come to pray, but rather than letting it drive us from prayer, we need to let it change how we approach prayer.
God graciously invites us to Him to pray, not flippantly, but with reverence and awe. Prayer is an opportunity to recognize the distinction that exists between us. Specifically, we need to acknowledge the majesty and holiness of God and remind ourselves of this as we worship Him.
We also should recognize His goodness to us, because like Isaiah, we come before God with sin and corruption clinging to us. God graciously invites us to come in spite of who we are, provided we recognize Him for who He is. There was something vile and loathsome that Isaiah saw in himself because he was standing in the presence of absolute purity. When we think of God correctly, his righteousness and holiness will grow in significance, and we will understand our corrupt and evil tendencies more clearly.
This is probably where you and I most often need to start in our time of prayer. We come to the Lord of the universe to speak, and we need to be conscious of the fact that God is holy, and we are corrupt, rebellious and sinful. It was when Isaiah confessed his corruption that his understanding of the goodness of God grew significantly.
However they differed concerning the one who affirms that it is obligatory but deliberately does not do it even though he is able to. The one who does not pray must either deny that it is obligatory or not deny that this is the case. If he denies that it is obligatory, he must be examined further. If he is unaware of that, then he is one of those who are ignorant of that, such as one who is new in Islam or who grew up in the wilderness.
He is to be informed and taught that it is obligatory, and he is not to be deemed a disbeliever, because he is excused. This person has become an apostate from Islam and is subject to the same ruling as all other apostates: he is to be asked to repent and to be executed if he does not repent. I do not know if any difference of opinion concerning this matter.
The one who does not pray out of heedlessness concerning it and out of a lack of regard for its importance is the one concerning whom the scholars differed. Some of them ruled that he is a disbeliever and others ruled that he is not a disbeliever; some ruled that he is a disbeliever if he does not pray at all, but if he prays sometimes and does not pray at other times, then he is not to be deemed a disbeliever. The Hanbalis are of the view that the one who does not pray out of laziness is to be advised to do it and he should be told: If you pray, all well and good, otherwise we will execute you.
Then if he prays, all well and good, otherwise he must be executed. But he is not to be executed until he has been detained for three days and called at the time of every prayer. Then if he prays, all well and good, otherwise he is to be executed as a hadd punishment or, it was said, he is to be executed for his disbelief, which means that he is not to be washed, the funeral prayer is not to be offered for him, and he is not to be buried in the Muslim graveyard.
However he is not to be enslaved and his family and children are not to be taken captive, like other apostates. End quote.
What appears to me to be the case is that he does not become a disbeliever unless he does not pray altogether, i. See also the answer to questions no.
More than one of the scholars have stated that there was consensus that the one who does not pray becomes a disbeliever. Ishaaq ibn Raahawayh said: This is the opinion of the scholars from the time of the Prophet blessings and peace of Allah be upon him until our present time.
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