Putting aside the very purpose of our existence.
”Salah is something we squeeze into our day, when we find time—if that. Our ‘lives’ don’t revolve around salah. Salah revolves around our ‘lives.’ If we’re in class, salah is an afterthought. If we’re at the mall, the sale is more urgent. Something is seriously wrong when we put aside the very purpose of our existence in order to watch a basketball game.” - Yasmin Mogahed
This is seriously true on so many levels.
Purpose of life: Submission to Allah.
How to fullfil your purpose: Live life the way Allah commanded you too (yes this includes eating yummy food and socializing with friends and working hard to become successful and enjoying family time..)
But one of his most vigorous commandments was to pray to HIM.
He’s the one giving you all these opportunities and blessings. Why is it that prayer is sometimes the last thing on our mind? It shouldn’t be. You should work your schedule around the 5 prayers, not working the prayer into your schedule. Get the difference?
Muslim :: Book 4 : Hadith 1379
'Abd al-Rahman b. Abd 'Amr reported: 'Uthman b. 'Affan (narrated the mosque after evening prayer and sat alone. I also sat alone with him, so he said: 0, son of m brother, I heard tile Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) say: He who observed the 'Isya' prayer in congregation, it was as if he prayed up to the midnight, and he who prayed the morning prayer in congregation, it was as if he prayed the whole night.
WHEN YOU FEEL DOWN BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T GET WHAT YOU WANT ....
JUST SIT DOWN,TAKE A DEEP BREATH..
AND SAY SUBHAN ALLAH !!
CALMLY AND BE HAPPY (^_^)
BECAUSE MAYBE ALLAH HAS THOUGHT OF SOMETHING BETTER TO GIVE YOU
5 DEAD BOUQUETSHow many of you have prayed and don’t even remember what surah’s you said or the fact that you said surah Fatiha? That’s a dead prayer. A prayer with no feelings, with no heart, with no soul.Think of giving a dead bouquet as a gift to someone important. (Guys, imagine giving your wife a dead bouquet for her birthday…it’s not cute..) It’s disrespectful. And just like that, you’re giving Allah 5 dead bouquets every single day. It’s like praying just cause you have to. Not cause you want to have a conversation with Him.
So many of us do this: “Subhan Allah Rabbi Al Azim” three times in ultra speed rap so it comes out “subhanarubilsimsubhanrbilsmsubhanlrbizm”. It’s like going to your daddy and asking for money to go out you would say “Can I have some money?” but then saying “Canihvemonaycanicanicanihavemoney”.. do you think your daddy will give you money? Maybe cause you’re annoying, but he won’t be happy about giving it to you.
You want things ? You want happiness ? You want your duas answered ?
Make Allah happy. How ?
Pray with focus. Pray with feeling. Pray hard. Pray as if it’s your last prayer.
