Book Name:Namaz Ki Ahmiyat
remove your sins, and I will surely admit you to Gardens; beneath which rivers flow.
سُبْحٰنَ اللّٰہ! What great rewards are there for Salah-offering people in the court of Allah Almighty. At some places, they are given the glad tidings of Paradise and forgiveness, and at other places, they are given the glad tidings of a great reward. Even in blessed Ahadees, there has been a great emphasis on the persuasion of offering Salah. If we abandon all our worldly activities as soon as the time for Salah approaches and start getting ready to offer Salah and offer it with Jama’at with humility of body and full concentration, then not only will it enable us to gain the blessings of this world but one benefit of the Hereafter would be that the same Salah will become a means of our salvation and forgiveness on the Day of Judgement.
Forgiveness of the one offering Salah with humility and self-mortification
The Holy Rasool صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم has stated: Allah Almighty has made 5 Salahs Fard. The one who performs proper Wudhu for them, offers them in their due time, and completes its Ruku and Sujood with humility, then it is upon the mercy of Allah Almighty to forgive him. And the one who does not offer them [the 5 daily Salahs], then he will be deprived of the mercy of Allah Almighty. If He Almighty wills, He may forgive him and if He wills, He may punish him. (Abu Dawood, Raqm 1, 425/186)
O devotees of Rasool! Those fortunate Muslims who offer the five daily Salahs, all their sins are forgiven. The Holy Rasool صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم has stated: ‘If anyone among you has a stream in his courtyard and takes bath in it 5 times a day, would any dirt remain on him?’ People humbly replied: ‘No.’ The Holy Rasool صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم said: ‘Salah wipes away sins in the same manner as water washes away dirt.’ (Ibn-e-Majah, vol. 2, pp. 165, Hadees 1397)
Every Salah is an atonement for the previous sins
Those fortunate individuals who are used to offering Salah, let’s suppose, if sins get committed by them in between two Salahs, then the second Salah