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The Importance and Excellence of Salah
Hearing this, the mother began to cry and said, “Alas! Your sister was lazy in offering salah and would offer it after the stipulated time (as qaḍāˈ).[1]
صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد
Dear Islamic brothers, we learn from this admonitory incident that it is a very grave sin to be lazy in offering salah. To do so is a cause of punishment in the grave. We should also offer the five daily salahs with zeal in congregation in the masjid. Regardless of whether or not it is Ramadan, we should refrain from being lazy in offering salah as this is a sign of the hypocrites. When the hypocrites used to stand for salah with the believers, they would stand lazily as they had no faith in their heart from which they could attain the passion to worship and experience its joy; they only offered salah to show off to people. In verse 142 of Sūrah al-Nisāˈ, Allah has stated regarding them:
وَ اِذَا قَامُوۡۤا اِلَی الصَّلٰوۃِ قَامُوۡا کُسَالٰی ۙ
Translation from Kanz al-Īmān: And when they stand up for salah, they therefore unwillingly do it for show.[2]
Regarding this verse, it is mentioned in Tafsīr Ṣirāṭ al-Jinān:
Signs of laziness include:
* Not offering salah, or
* Only offering salah in the presence of people and not when alone, or
* Offering salah with humility and submission in the presence of people and hastily in solitude, or
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- The Importance and Excellence of Salah
- Excellence of sending ṣalāt upon the Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم
- A grave with flames
- A horrifying well of a dreadful valley in Hell
- The punishment of Hell and afflictions of the world
- Lightest punishment in Hell
- Three sayings of Allah Almighty about salah
- Forgiveness for the one who offered salah with humility and presence of heart
- Sins are forgiven due to salah
- Each salah is an expiation for the past sins
- There is cure in salah
- Blessings in sustenance
- Encouragement for pious deed 33
- The imam’s love for salah
- A thief became a saint due to the blessing of salah
- Department for Ramadan IꜤtikāf
- Sunnahs and manners of iꜤtikāf
