§  Avoiding seclusion

§  Oversleeping

§  Delaying in matters deliberately due to laziness (procrastination).

§  Despite taking advantage of learning from someone or gaining the advantage from others’ experiences, one conducts experiments of everything on their own (in this way plenty of time is spent, whereas time can be saved if advantage is gained by another person’s experiences).

§  Not finishing work at its fixed time.

§  Complaining for the shortage of time despite having time.

§  Wasting time in bad company and with bad friends.

Dear Islamic brothers! The vast majority of Muslims, who are involved in such matters, do not even feel ashamed مَـعَـاذَ الـلّٰـه عَـزَّوَجَـلَّ of not performing the obligatory acts like Salah. Remember! To not offer Salah without any Shar’i reason is a sin and Haraam and an act leading to Hell. Severe punishments have been mentioned in the blessed Ahadees for not offering Salah. Let’s listen to a blessed Hadees and its explanation about not offering Salah to take some warning. Listen and tremble with Divine fear.

The Prophet of Rahmah صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم has said: The one who protects the five (obligatory) Salah, for him the Salah will become Noor, evidence and salvation on the Day of Judgement; and the one who does not protect it, there will be no Noor, evidence or salvation for him on the Day of Judgement and such a person will be kept with Pharaoh, Qaroon, Haaman and Ubayy Bin Khalaf on the Day of Judgement. (Jam’-ul-Jawami’, vol. 4, pp. 259, Hadees 11661)

Commenting on this part ‘the person who protects Salah’ of the above-mentioned Hadees, a renowned commentator, a great thinker of the Ummah, Mufti Ahmad Yar Khan رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه has stated in its explanation: He should always offer Salah correctly with full attention and sincerity. In the explanation of this part ‘the Salah will become Noor, evidence and salvation for him on the Day of Judgement’ Mufti Sahib has said: The grave is also included in the Day of Judgement, because death is also part of the Day of