Salah and its importance

 

 

Assalamu Alaikum Sisters

Since we covered the Israa and Mi’raj story in which Salah five times a day was made obligatory, the topic this week was: Salah and its importance. Here are some ahadeeth about Salah…the notes are adapted from AlKauthar institute notes from the course ‘Drops of Dew’ (About An-Nawawi’s 40 ahadeeth).

We shared stories and discussed ways of bringing relatives and friends around to establishing prayer and reflected on the importance of the prayer being established if there is to be any true Islamic revival.

We also read some of the ahadeeth regarding the reward for prayer.

 

 

The importance of Salah

Establishing the Prayer

 

 

The meaning of establishing the Prayer

Establishing the prayer entails performance of the prayer to the best of one’s ability by praying it at

the regular times and without shortcomings in its pillars and conditions. It must also be upon the

Sunnah of Rasulullah.

 

Leaving the prayer

• If someone believes that it is not obligatory, then it is complete disbelief by consensus.

• If someone leaves it due to laziness or without a valid reason, then it is disbelief according to the stronger opinion.

(According to Hanbalis it is Kufr and according to the other madhahib it is a major sin)

 

Proofs

 

Aayaat

 

So if they repent and establish the prayer and pay the zakat, then they are your brothers in the religion. [AtTauba: 11]

So if they repent and establish the prayer and pay the zakat, then they are your brothers in the religion. [AtTauba: 11]

 

Ahadeeth

 

Verily, between a man and Shirk and Kufr is the abandonment of the prayer. [Muslim]	Do not leave the prayer intentionally, for he who leaves it intentionally then he has removed from himself the protection of Allah and His Messenger. [Ahmed]
The covenant that is between us and them is the prayer, so whoever leaves it, then he has disbelieved. [Ahmed and Abu Dawud]	Whoever leaves the Asr prayer then his actions have become invalid. [AlBukhari]
There will be leaders. You will know them but despise them. They (the companions) said: So shouldn’t we fight them? He said: Not as long as they pray. [Muslim]	The first matter of the slave to be judged will be the prayer. Allah will look at his prayers. If they are good then the rest of his actions are fine and acceptable. However if they are ruined, then the rest of his actions will also be ruined. [AtTabarani]
From Ubadah bin Saamit radiallahu anhu: The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam called us and so we gave him our covenant. From those things that he took our oath upon – and that we do not struggle to remove a person of authority from his position. He said: Except if we see from him a clear and open kufr, in which is a clear excuse for you with Allah. [Agreed upon]	From Abdullah bin Shaqeeq: The companions of Rasulullah did not used to consider the leaving of any action to be disbelief except for prayer. [AlHakim]
Whoever prays our prayer and faces our Qiblah and eats from our slaughter, then that is a Muslim upon whom is the protection of Allah and His Messenger. [Muslim]	Important note: There is a difference between passing a ruling of kufr on the specific [Fatwa] as against the general [Hukm] . So just because leaving prayer is disbelief, it doesn’t necessarily mean that a particular person who is not praying is a disbeliever.

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