Regarding this blessed Ayah it has been mentioned in Tafseer Siraat-ul-Jinaan: Not offering Salah or only offering Salah in the presence of people, whereas not offering Salah in privacy or offering Salah with humility of heart and body in the presence of people and hastily in privacy or getting into different thoughts during Salah, not making any efforts to offer Salah with full concentration etc., are all signs of laziness. (Siraat-ul-Jinaan, vol. 2 pp. 335)

Alas! Nowadays in our society, merely due to laziness, everyday Salahs are being missed, whereas the same laziness immediately turns to briskness for committing sins. There are some people who if miss one or few Salahs, they do not deliberately offer Salahs for weeks, but rather for months. If any Islamic brother making his individual effort persuades them to offer Salah, they respond: Now اِنْ شَــآءَالـلّٰـه عَزَّوَجَلَّ I will start offering Salah from the next Friday or I will start offering Salah regularly from the month of Ramadan. Thus they acknowledge openly without any shame or hesitation that they will continue to commit the grave sin of missing Salah until Friday or the sacred month of blessed Ramadan. Undoubtedly, all these are the disaster of having no fear of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ and no yearning for worship; otherwise one who is overpowered by the fear of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ and has yarning for worship, offers Salah regularly at all costs and refrains from the disobedience to Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ. Remember! Missing Salah deliberately is a sin and an act leading to Hell. In Ayah 59 of Surah Maryam, part 16 Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ has stated:

فَخَلَفَ مِنْۢ بَعْدِهِمْ خَلْفٌ اَضَاعُوا الصَّلٰوةَ وَ اتَّبَعُوا الشَّهَوٰتِ فَسَوْفَ یَلْقَوْنَ غَیًّاۙ(۵۹)

Translation from Kanz-ul-Iman: And after them came the unworthy successors who squandered prayer and pursued their own desires, so they will soon encounter the forest of Ghayy in Hell.

Horrible well of dreadful valley in Hell

Dear Islamic brothers! ‘ غَیّ ’ [Ghayy] has been mentioned in the above-mentioned blessed Ayah, it means, ‘a valley of Hell’. Sadr-ush-Shari’ah Mufti Muhammad