given throughout the Holy Quran by our Creator to offer salah? How many times do we respond to the call to attend the masjid? Everyone should contemplate whether the voice from the masjid that calls us towards success five times a day is only listened to (as a formality) and then ignored, or do we leave every act and head to the masjid? Unfortunately, despite hearing about the punishment of the grave, terrors of Hell and horrors of Judgement Day, many are still heedless. May Allah grant us true awakening from this sleep of heedlessness.

اٰمِیْن بِجَاہِ النَّبِیِّ الْاَمِیْن  صلَّی اللہ عَلَیْہِ واٰلہٖ وسلَّم

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب                 صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Note that five salah are obligatory daily upon every sane Muslim man and woman who have reached puberty. The one who denies the obligation of salah is out of the fold of Islam even if his name and other acts are like Muslims. The person who considers salah to be obligatory but misses even one salah deliberately is a grave sinner and deserving of punishment in Hell.

The Reviver of Islam, the Imam of Ahl al-Sunnah, Imam Aḥmad Razā Khān رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه, has said: “The one who deliberately misses a single salah is worthy of staying in Hell for thousands of years as long as he does not repent and make up for the salah.”^[1] Given that a person has to remain in Hell for thousands of years for deliberately missing just one salah, imagine how severe the punishment is for the one who deliberately misses all the salahs of a day or does not offer salah at all.

Even Satan himself seeks refuge from the one who deliberately misses salah. It has been narrated that a person was going somewhere in a jungle. Satan also accompanied him. That individual did not offer a