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Imam Shafi’i (ra) was asked, “Who is a fool?”
He replied, “He is the person who does not pray.”

by Deen-ul-HaQ

Via a post on Islamica, I’ve been reminded of a very powerful hadith.  I dare say that this hadith is one that has had the single greatest impact on my iman.  Seriously, we’re standing in front of our Lord (swt) 5 times a day, speaking to Him and we know HE ANSWERS!   He’s speaking to us, […]

It’s that time of month, ehm, and I’ve got this weird feeling.  Drum roll please…

…I actually miss salat!  It’s like OMGosh, it’s time for asr, I gotta pray…oh no wait, dang, I can’t.  I don’t think I’ve ever felt this before.  It’s an odd feeling, and I would say I like it, except it makes […]

 
i.  suck.  at.  praying.  on.  time.
Dudes, seriously, the 40 grand is kicking my butt.  It’s goin good, I’m cruisin along, and them bam, I become complacent and miss a prayer.   It probably doesn’t help that I have the attention span of a nat with ADD either.  At this rate, it will take me until the […]

  Via Deenport:
 When I was little, my sister was the queen of sticker collecting.  She had thousands of stickers that she and her friends would spend hours arranging in little books and trading.  I had a sticker collection as well, although I wasn’t as hardcore.  I didn’t really like to trade, so they just sat in […]

“Do you really believe that God expects you to show Him your respect by repeated bowing and kneeling and prostration?  Might it not be better only to look into oneself and to pray to Him in the stillness of one’s heart?  Why all these movements of your body?”
As soon as I had uttered these […]

SubhanAllah, may Allah (swt) help me to attain this attentiveness to prayer.
My father-in-law spent his last few weeks in this life asking every few minutes if it was time to pray. Much of the speech he was capable of in the days after his stroke in September was used to invoke the name of God […]

From Flickr

Yesterday, I was asked a question I had never pondered before: why does God obligate us to do all of that, ie, why does he oblige us to make salat the way we do?
After some reflection, I responded as follows.  Why do you think God oliges us to pray?
Salat is actually one of the reasons […]

If any of you could spare 10 seconds, could you please make dua for me?  inshaAllah ta’ala I am starting the 40 Grand today, and I need all the help I can get.
It’s funny (in a kind of ironic way, not ha ha funny), but one of the main reasons I am muslim is because […]