"I Can't Pray Salah Because..." - All Difficulties About Praying Salah Are Answered!
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Brother, we've brought the questions about prayer that have come to us from social media. There are some very difficult questions among them, and there are questions that I think will make you sweat. I'll ask you these short questions. I want short answers from you. Convince me, brother the most difficult thing about prayer is this. Prayer is not a one-time deed of worship. It is a never-ending, uninterrupted deed of worship that we have to do constantly. Since it is a deed of worship that you have to do every few hours, every day, what does never-ending mean? It feels like it's a million years, but it's not. It will end eventually. Then we have the heaven or hell. The hereafter will begin.
There's no such a fard such an obligation there in the heaven. It's something that will end someday, right? Five years. One year. Maybe tomorrow. When we compare it to eternal life, the hardship of praying for 30 years is nothing. It's as simple as touching something tiny with your finger compared to the reward you will receive in the eternal life. Besides, you should think about this. For example,do we have a guarantee that you will live up to tomorrow? No. You are not responsible for tomorrow's prayers. You are responsible only for today's prayers. If you reach tomorrow, this time, you will be responsible for the prayers.
So you are responsible for only today's 50 minutes or 60 minutes of prayers. It would be unreasonable if I started to eat now for the next week or the other week. Right? You will eat that day's food on that day. Similarly, if a man thinks that he will do it next year, he will do it in ten years. It will damage his patience. Then you'll think that "it never ends," however, if one says I'm responsible for only today's prayers, his viewpoint will change a lot. He will approach that prayer willingly by saying, I've started the new day. My spirit, my heart, It needs a spiritual food. Brother, yes, you've convinced me. But now what about the morning prayer (fajr)?
There is a separate difficulty related to the morning prayer. The afternoon (asr) prayer is during the day, the evening prayer (Al-maghrib) and the night prayer before bedtime (Isha). But there is a phrase; actually, there's a very practical method for it, but I'm not sure if it's suitable for everyone or not. If you want to wake up for (Fajr) morning prayer easily, you drink a liter of water before going to bed. You get up in the morning so easily you can even get up for Tahajjud if you make it two liters. The spiritual method is this; having a strong belief is the biggest factor.
In other words, if a person reads books, watches Islamic videos that will strengthen his belief, his iman and worships. The probability of getting up for the morning prayer fajr is very high. To sum up the solution is this, having a strong spiritual atmosphere, spiritual motivation wakes you up. There is such a thing as Wudu. Wudu is very difficult for people, especially in cold weather, in winter, with cold water. it's really difficult sometimes. Things can change a little when it comes to the feet, right? Especially, if you're outside or in a house without heating system. But when you make it automatic in your head, no such problem of laziness occurs.
For example, when it's time for maghrib prayer, I don't say should I pray or not? It has become a habit,a standard just like habit of washing your face when you wake up in the morning. It becomes a standard a habit to make Wudu for a person, especially if he continues for a long time. If he does it for one year or two years, it becomes a complete standard. So the reason why you don't pray is no longer finding it difficult to make wudu the messenger of Allah (Peace be upon him) says, Subhannallah, 2 rak'ahs of Sunnah at al-fajr prayer, better than the whole world and everything in it. When you think about the reward you will get for what you will do. Laziness goes away.
Imagine, if I say to you that we will do body building together for 40 days. You are a guy who doesn't like body building. So you say, I'm sorry, brother, I don't want to do it. But what if I say, if you do it for 40 days, I will give my Ferrari to you? Will you do it? Sure you will. Why didn't you accept it before? When you think about the reward, you say it's very cheap price to do bodybuilding for 40 days, or Ferrari. So I want to ask you, is it right to be lazy to pray for one hour a day or to make a Wudu in return for eternal Ferrari? Eternal Paradise. Brother, there may be the following thought.
"I am very sinful." "I make a lot of mistakes against Allah in my life." And you tell me to perform prayers. "I've just sinned." "I've made a mistake against Allah." you are not worthy. Which one of us is worthy of standing in the presence of Allah? I think it's not the right question. If you want to finish committing sins and then start prayers, no one will start prayers because we can't be without mistakes. Are we prophets? No. then it will always be like this; while there are some sins in our lives, there will also be prayers at the same time. So you and I will be sinful Muslims, but also praying Muslims. Brother, isn't it hypocrisy? Let's think of two people who appear before Allah.
The first one, someone committed sins and harams. Besides, he committed a major sin by not performing the five daily prayers. No Salah, commit sins. Is this Better? Or someone who committed sins but performed prayers? Which of them is better? The prophet (Peace be upon him) says in a hadiths reported by Muslim. what does Allah wants? Repent after making a mistake. It means falling down is natural. What Allah want from us is the effort to get up and continue after falling down. He does not say; "he has sins, delete all the prayer he has performed." He doesn't say this. You have good deeds and you also have sins. If you have sins that you can not give up. Your mind needs to work like this.
If I can mot give up these sins I will do more good deeds to surpass my sins. Well, brother, how did you start? Did you give up all sins at once when you realized something? it's a process. I was studying at the Ege university. I was in my twenties, and I had a very bad life. None of my friends was performing salah. Here's this sentence that came to my mind, changed my life, and Allah granted me the guidance. One who performs prayers for 40 days, he can't give up the prayers. I heard it once. It really came from inside of me. I realized that the world was going towards a very serious void, that nothing is ours, that we were only trustees and. And that we didn't actually own anything.
I'll be underground after 50 years. Then I started five daily prayers. I saw that some sins in my life still continue. I couldn't give them up. I thought that should I give up the sins or the prayers? Then I thought, I'll continue my prayers. Prayer will drive others out of my life. And interestingly, the sins that I want to get rid of started to leave me. Then the meaning of the verse. Then I saw the verse 45 surah(chapter) Al-ankbout, which Allah says, brother, you explain it very well. But in some places these things can be more difficult. For example, most of our friends go to university or work. It may not be easy to perform prayers in some workplaces or universities.
No I do a Sunday test for friends who say I want to pray but school, work, etc. Sunday test is like this. You work or you go to university on weekdays, but you're free on Sundays. If you don't perform prays on Sundays too, you should think that. Is Satan deceiving me? Think like this. What are you afraid of? I mean, are you afraid that someone will say something to you at school? You weren't ashamed when you committed sins in the past, does it fit you to feel ashamed of performing prayers? Nobody will say:Stop, you can't go to the toilet when you're at work. It's forbidden. How long does it take to go to a toilet? 10 minutes, 15 minutes. You can go and pray in 15 minutes too.
If it's much stricter, you can perform only the fard's prayer in our Dean, there's no such thing as postponing the prayer. Brother, if you don't want to do it, you will definitely find an excuse. If you want to do it, you will definitely find a way to do it. Brother, there is something like this. Some people start performing prayers many times and fail. For example, someone who has tried to start prayer 20 times can lose faith in himself after a certain period of time. They say, I tried. It didn't work. I have a method that works very well for it. I call it going with the flow. Let's imagine such a river, such a strong currents. Let's say it's so strong that you can't go left or right.
You are in the middle of the currents and it flows to heaven. You leave yourself free in this water. Think of things like sins on the right and on the left. You're at the middle. This current will automatically take you to heaven. Right? It's strong. you can not swim left or right. What is the current in the examples? It's the stream of true friends, religious friends, friends that lead you to the path of Allah. When you check your contact list in WhatsApp, look at 20 people, 20 people like this. If those 20 people are people who perform prayers have taqwa and worship, they will definitely cause you to flow to a beautiful place.
On the other hand, if the river current is very strong but flows to the hell I mean bad friends, it will prevent you from doing things like prayer or worship. The best thing to do is this If you increase your conversation with friends who invited you to goodness, it will take you to a good place. We are all human. We are being affected with the people around us. We are being affected with the books We read, the videos we watch. If you carefully choose the things that affects you, the books, the videos, the people, you get yourself into a river that will take you to a beautiful place. Some women have the following problem.
"I don't wear hijab." "How can I perform prayers, if I don't obey the command of hijab? I can't." There may be a thought like that. What would you like to say about it? Once my mother went to the masjid, probably in a shopping mall, she said to me that "my son Do you know that there are many women who don't wear hijab and pray at Masjid?" They come to the masjid, take out their prayer clothes out of their bags and pray. I was shocked, and she added, "There are also many women who wear hijab, but don't pray." Interesting. Is it right or wrong? It's definitely not right to be without Hijab.
It's hard to wear hijab, but this thought is not right either; "Since I don't wear hijab, my prayers are invalid" that there's no such a thing, no Islamic scholar has ever made such a claim. You will perform your prayers with wearing hijab. And fulfill your fard duty. In other words, we all do these kinds of things in terms of deeds, right? Think of this way. You're doing 200 kilometers while driving; the police saw you and stopped you. You weren't wearing your seatbelt and you exited the speed limit, the police said, "why were you exeeding the speed limit?" Would you say I think like this, since I don't obey a rule by not wearing a seatbelt, I decided not to obey any rules.
Would you say that? No. At least you would want to get rid of the seatbelt fine. Right. We might commit sins, but they don't prevent us from performing prayers by any means. Even if one doesn't wear hijab, her other deeds of worship will settle since she performs prayers, she must continue performing prayers on condition that she wakes up during a prayer. Right? Inshallah, that prayer will be a means of wearing hijab in the course of time. Brother, "when I first started performing prayers, I was enjoying it a lot. yes, it's one of the most common things that a person starts to pray. The effect of starting the prayer can be seen very clearly because his spirit has been hungry for a long time.
You know, when you eat, when you are hungry, you get more flavor than normal. It's just like that when one gets used to prayer, he can no longer feel his hunger like the first time. He needs to focus on some meanings to feel it. He needs to think about the blessings of Allah, his need to appear in the presence of Allah so that he can catch the atmosphere. When a person begins to perform prayers. Allah gives him such a pleasure in the first day so that he can continue. Allah encourages that person, but after a while Allah tests his sincerity of his servant by taking the pleasure away. Does he pray for pleasure, or would he still pray if there were no pleasure?
A person proves his sincerity when he continues despite the lack of pleasure. It's a higher level. In other words, the fact that you can't get the flavor doesn't make you a person of low level. On the contrary, it shows that you can achieve something. Otherwise, the constant pursuit of pleasure in worship turns into "conditional servitude". If you give pleasure, I will pray. If you don't, I won't. Can we make such a statement? Of course not. Worshiping for just pleasure reduces the sincerity of worship. We should worship for the sake of Allah; pleasure is just an incentive for it. Finally, let me quote something from Umar (raa).
One day, a man said to Umar (raa), I don't perform prayers, but your Allah, he doesn't punish me at all. Umar (raa) answered; is there a greater punishment than this, brother, last question. Have a look at your life. Why do you breath in this world? Why do you live? What is the purpose of life? Finishing high school, graduating from university, okay. Later? I'm going to have a good job. Okay. Later? I'm going to earn a lot of money and become rich. Okay. Later? They are all means. Where are you going? Don't describe me the way you go. What is your purpose? Are all these the purpose of man? You know? They ask a question at job interviews. They ask where do you see yourself after ten years?
I think you should ask yourself this question; where do you see yourself after 100 years? It's a very serious question. Think about, 100 years later; where are you going to be? Let me answer; you will definitely be under the ground, with no exception. Are you a muslim? Yes, we are. What is the absolute command of the religion of Islam? Prayer (salah) why didn't you perform it? You worked 12 hours a day. You got a certain salary. You made a lot of effort for the boss. You did much more difficult tasks than performing prayers. For what? For money. On the other hand, your Lord gives you an eternal paradise. An eternal, unending paradise. He doesn't want anything difficult from you.
He wants you to pray just one hour a day. Something as small as only 4% of the day. Praying is not something that makes you suffer writh or carry a burden on your back. People pay for meditation. Pay for the peace of mind. Peace of spirit. Prayer gives you a peace of mind and tranquility in this world. It makes you happy in this world and will be a means of an eternal paradise in the hereafter. If it makes sense not to pray, just go ahead. There's a certain salary and you work for 12 hours. On the other hand, there's an eternal paradise.
But you say, "I don't want to pray one hour a day for eternal paradise." It doesn't make sense Athan is called: "hayya ala alsalah" Allah says, Come to the prayer. He invites you By not going you say, "I'm not coming, I'm not coming o, Allah." I'm not coming to your presence. You don't say it verbally, but you say it actually by not praying. You virtually say this. You virtually say that: "I don't want to come to your presence. I don't feel like" I sell my heart to the boss to get my salary and enjoy my life. "As for your presence Allah and eternal paradise, I'm not interested in them". You don't say it verbally, but you say, actually.
Put your hand on your heart and tell me, is it something so difficult for you? Look at the people performing prayers around you. Do they regret it? Ask them, if one of them says, I regret that I've been praying for five years. Okay. If they say this, don't perform prayers. But they will all say it to you that: "Alhamdulillah, it is the best thing in my life to start performing prayers." Why are you still waiting for Stop all the buts, stop all the ifs. I'm going to finish my school.
"I'm going to get married and then start praying" "when my life settles and become regular, I'll start." "I want start, but my work, "my environment is not suitable right now, the school environment is not suitable." Brother, eliminate all the buts. Crush them under your feet. Throw them away. All those parts are from Satan. Forget them. Raise your hands like this. Say Allahu Akbar. Throw the whole world behind you. Say Allahu Akbar. Say, my Lord, I come to your presence. Say I've come to repent. I've come to you, my Lord. Put your hands together over your abdomen and hold them firm. Lay your prayer mat, you won't lose anything. You will attain an eternal paradise. Inshallah.
If Allah commands something, it is done. Is it possible to bargain with Allah? Don't you understand that it is the trick of Satan (shaitan) look at the graveyard. Graveyards are full of people. Full of people who postpones. They are full of people who said; "I swear I'll start prayer when my life becomes regular. My environment is not suitable, so I will perform the prayer later." It's nonsense to say "I will postpone". There are thousands of millions of people at the graves filled with repentance. People suffering in the graves due to postponing prayers. Say "Bismiallah", Lay your prayer mat and say: " My Allah, I'll come to you. All the buts, all the ifs are over.
In your presence right now.
There's no such a fard such an obligation there in the heaven. It's something that will end someday, right? Five years. One year. Maybe tomorrow. When we compare it to eternal life, the hardship of praying for 30 years is nothing. It's as simple as touching something tiny with your finger compared to the reward you will receive in the eternal life. Besides, you should think about this. For example,do we have a guarantee that you will live up to tomorrow? No. You are not responsible for tomorrow's prayers. You are responsible only for today's prayers. If you reach tomorrow, this time, you will be responsible for the prayers.
So you are responsible for only today's 50 minutes or 60 minutes of prayers. It would be unreasonable if I started to eat now for the next week or the other week. Right? You will eat that day's food on that day. Similarly, if a man thinks that he will do it next year, he will do it in ten years. It will damage his patience. Then you'll think that "it never ends," however, if one says I'm responsible for only today's prayers, his viewpoint will change a lot. He will approach that prayer willingly by saying, I've started the new day. My spirit, my heart, It needs a spiritual food. Brother, yes, you've convinced me. But now what about the morning prayer (fajr)?
There is a separate difficulty related to the morning prayer. The afternoon (asr) prayer is during the day, the evening prayer (Al-maghrib) and the night prayer before bedtime (Isha). But there is a phrase; actually, there's a very practical method for it, but I'm not sure if it's suitable for everyone or not. If you want to wake up for (Fajr) morning prayer easily, you drink a liter of water before going to bed. You get up in the morning so easily you can even get up for Tahajjud if you make it two liters. The spiritual method is this; having a strong belief is the biggest factor.
In other words, if a person reads books, watches Islamic videos that will strengthen his belief, his iman and worships. The probability of getting up for the morning prayer fajr is very high. To sum up the solution is this, having a strong spiritual atmosphere, spiritual motivation wakes you up. There is such a thing as Wudu. Wudu is very difficult for people, especially in cold weather, in winter, with cold water. it's really difficult sometimes. Things can change a little when it comes to the feet, right? Especially, if you're outside or in a house without heating system. But when you make it automatic in your head, no such problem of laziness occurs.
For example, when it's time for maghrib prayer, I don't say should I pray or not? It has become a habit,a standard just like habit of washing your face when you wake up in the morning. It becomes a standard a habit to make Wudu for a person, especially if he continues for a long time. If he does it for one year or two years, it becomes a complete standard. So the reason why you don't pray is no longer finding it difficult to make wudu the messenger of Allah (Peace be upon him) says, Subhannallah, 2 rak'ahs of Sunnah at al-fajr prayer, better than the whole world and everything in it. When you think about the reward you will get for what you will do. Laziness goes away.
Imagine, if I say to you that we will do body building together for 40 days. You are a guy who doesn't like body building. So you say, I'm sorry, brother, I don't want to do it. But what if I say, if you do it for 40 days, I will give my Ferrari to you? Will you do it? Sure you will. Why didn't you accept it before? When you think about the reward, you say it's very cheap price to do bodybuilding for 40 days, or Ferrari. So I want to ask you, is it right to be lazy to pray for one hour a day or to make a Wudu in return for eternal Ferrari? Eternal Paradise. Brother, there may be the following thought.
"I am very sinful." "I make a lot of mistakes against Allah in my life." And you tell me to perform prayers. "I've just sinned." "I've made a mistake against Allah." you are not worthy. Which one of us is worthy of standing in the presence of Allah? I think it's not the right question. If you want to finish committing sins and then start prayers, no one will start prayers because we can't be without mistakes. Are we prophets? No. then it will always be like this; while there are some sins in our lives, there will also be prayers at the same time. So you and I will be sinful Muslims, but also praying Muslims. Brother, isn't it hypocrisy? Let's think of two people who appear before Allah.
The first one, someone committed sins and harams. Besides, he committed a major sin by not performing the five daily prayers. No Salah, commit sins. Is this Better? Or someone who committed sins but performed prayers? Which of them is better? The prophet (Peace be upon him) says in a hadiths reported by Muslim. what does Allah wants? Repent after making a mistake. It means falling down is natural. What Allah want from us is the effort to get up and continue after falling down. He does not say; "he has sins, delete all the prayer he has performed." He doesn't say this. You have good deeds and you also have sins. If you have sins that you can not give up. Your mind needs to work like this.
If I can mot give up these sins I will do more good deeds to surpass my sins. Well, brother, how did you start? Did you give up all sins at once when you realized something? it's a process. I was studying at the Ege university. I was in my twenties, and I had a very bad life. None of my friends was performing salah. Here's this sentence that came to my mind, changed my life, and Allah granted me the guidance. One who performs prayers for 40 days, he can't give up the prayers. I heard it once. It really came from inside of me. I realized that the world was going towards a very serious void, that nothing is ours, that we were only trustees and. And that we didn't actually own anything.
I'll be underground after 50 years. Then I started five daily prayers. I saw that some sins in my life still continue. I couldn't give them up. I thought that should I give up the sins or the prayers? Then I thought, I'll continue my prayers. Prayer will drive others out of my life. And interestingly, the sins that I want to get rid of started to leave me. Then the meaning of the verse. Then I saw the verse 45 surah(chapter) Al-ankbout, which Allah says, brother, you explain it very well. But in some places these things can be more difficult. For example, most of our friends go to university or work. It may not be easy to perform prayers in some workplaces or universities.
No I do a Sunday test for friends who say I want to pray but school, work, etc. Sunday test is like this. You work or you go to university on weekdays, but you're free on Sundays. If you don't perform prays on Sundays too, you should think that. Is Satan deceiving me? Think like this. What are you afraid of? I mean, are you afraid that someone will say something to you at school? You weren't ashamed when you committed sins in the past, does it fit you to feel ashamed of performing prayers? Nobody will say:Stop, you can't go to the toilet when you're at work. It's forbidden. How long does it take to go to a toilet? 10 minutes, 15 minutes. You can go and pray in 15 minutes too.
If it's much stricter, you can perform only the fard's prayer in our Dean, there's no such thing as postponing the prayer. Brother, if you don't want to do it, you will definitely find an excuse. If you want to do it, you will definitely find a way to do it. Brother, there is something like this. Some people start performing prayers many times and fail. For example, someone who has tried to start prayer 20 times can lose faith in himself after a certain period of time. They say, I tried. It didn't work. I have a method that works very well for it. I call it going with the flow. Let's imagine such a river, such a strong currents. Let's say it's so strong that you can't go left or right.
You are in the middle of the currents and it flows to heaven. You leave yourself free in this water. Think of things like sins on the right and on the left. You're at the middle. This current will automatically take you to heaven. Right? It's strong. you can not swim left or right. What is the current in the examples? It's the stream of true friends, religious friends, friends that lead you to the path of Allah. When you check your contact list in WhatsApp, look at 20 people, 20 people like this. If those 20 people are people who perform prayers have taqwa and worship, they will definitely cause you to flow to a beautiful place.
On the other hand, if the river current is very strong but flows to the hell I mean bad friends, it will prevent you from doing things like prayer or worship. The best thing to do is this If you increase your conversation with friends who invited you to goodness, it will take you to a good place. We are all human. We are being affected with the people around us. We are being affected with the books We read, the videos we watch. If you carefully choose the things that affects you, the books, the videos, the people, you get yourself into a river that will take you to a beautiful place. Some women have the following problem.
"I don't wear hijab." "How can I perform prayers, if I don't obey the command of hijab? I can't." There may be a thought like that. What would you like to say about it? Once my mother went to the masjid, probably in a shopping mall, she said to me that "my son Do you know that there are many women who don't wear hijab and pray at Masjid?" They come to the masjid, take out their prayer clothes out of their bags and pray. I was shocked, and she added, "There are also many women who wear hijab, but don't pray." Interesting. Is it right or wrong? It's definitely not right to be without Hijab.
It's hard to wear hijab, but this thought is not right either; "Since I don't wear hijab, my prayers are invalid" that there's no such a thing, no Islamic scholar has ever made such a claim. You will perform your prayers with wearing hijab. And fulfill your fard duty. In other words, we all do these kinds of things in terms of deeds, right? Think of this way. You're doing 200 kilometers while driving; the police saw you and stopped you. You weren't wearing your seatbelt and you exited the speed limit, the police said, "why were you exeeding the speed limit?" Would you say I think like this, since I don't obey a rule by not wearing a seatbelt, I decided not to obey any rules.
Would you say that? No. At least you would want to get rid of the seatbelt fine. Right. We might commit sins, but they don't prevent us from performing prayers by any means. Even if one doesn't wear hijab, her other deeds of worship will settle since she performs prayers, she must continue performing prayers on condition that she wakes up during a prayer. Right? Inshallah, that prayer will be a means of wearing hijab in the course of time. Brother, "when I first started performing prayers, I was enjoying it a lot. yes, it's one of the most common things that a person starts to pray. The effect of starting the prayer can be seen very clearly because his spirit has been hungry for a long time.
You know, when you eat, when you are hungry, you get more flavor than normal. It's just like that when one gets used to prayer, he can no longer feel his hunger like the first time. He needs to focus on some meanings to feel it. He needs to think about the blessings of Allah, his need to appear in the presence of Allah so that he can catch the atmosphere. When a person begins to perform prayers. Allah gives him such a pleasure in the first day so that he can continue. Allah encourages that person, but after a while Allah tests his sincerity of his servant by taking the pleasure away. Does he pray for pleasure, or would he still pray if there were no pleasure?
A person proves his sincerity when he continues despite the lack of pleasure. It's a higher level. In other words, the fact that you can't get the flavor doesn't make you a person of low level. On the contrary, it shows that you can achieve something. Otherwise, the constant pursuit of pleasure in worship turns into "conditional servitude". If you give pleasure, I will pray. If you don't, I won't. Can we make such a statement? Of course not. Worshiping for just pleasure reduces the sincerity of worship. We should worship for the sake of Allah; pleasure is just an incentive for it. Finally, let me quote something from Umar (raa).
One day, a man said to Umar (raa), I don't perform prayers, but your Allah, he doesn't punish me at all. Umar (raa) answered; is there a greater punishment than this, brother, last question. Have a look at your life. Why do you breath in this world? Why do you live? What is the purpose of life? Finishing high school, graduating from university, okay. Later? I'm going to have a good job. Okay. Later? I'm going to earn a lot of money and become rich. Okay. Later? They are all means. Where are you going? Don't describe me the way you go. What is your purpose? Are all these the purpose of man? You know? They ask a question at job interviews. They ask where do you see yourself after ten years?
I think you should ask yourself this question; where do you see yourself after 100 years? It's a very serious question. Think about, 100 years later; where are you going to be? Let me answer; you will definitely be under the ground, with no exception. Are you a muslim? Yes, we are. What is the absolute command of the religion of Islam? Prayer (salah) why didn't you perform it? You worked 12 hours a day. You got a certain salary. You made a lot of effort for the boss. You did much more difficult tasks than performing prayers. For what? For money. On the other hand, your Lord gives you an eternal paradise. An eternal, unending paradise. He doesn't want anything difficult from you.
He wants you to pray just one hour a day. Something as small as only 4% of the day. Praying is not something that makes you suffer writh or carry a burden on your back. People pay for meditation. Pay for the peace of mind. Peace of spirit. Prayer gives you a peace of mind and tranquility in this world. It makes you happy in this world and will be a means of an eternal paradise in the hereafter. If it makes sense not to pray, just go ahead. There's a certain salary and you work for 12 hours. On the other hand, there's an eternal paradise.
But you say, "I don't want to pray one hour a day for eternal paradise." It doesn't make sense Athan is called: "hayya ala alsalah" Allah says, Come to the prayer. He invites you By not going you say, "I'm not coming, I'm not coming o, Allah." I'm not coming to your presence. You don't say it verbally, but you say it actually by not praying. You virtually say this. You virtually say that: "I don't want to come to your presence. I don't feel like" I sell my heart to the boss to get my salary and enjoy my life. "As for your presence Allah and eternal paradise, I'm not interested in them". You don't say it verbally, but you say, actually.
Put your hand on your heart and tell me, is it something so difficult for you? Look at the people performing prayers around you. Do they regret it? Ask them, if one of them says, I regret that I've been praying for five years. Okay. If they say this, don't perform prayers. But they will all say it to you that: "Alhamdulillah, it is the best thing in my life to start performing prayers." Why are you still waiting for Stop all the buts, stop all the ifs. I'm going to finish my school.
"I'm going to get married and then start praying" "when my life settles and become regular, I'll start." "I want start, but my work, "my environment is not suitable right now, the school environment is not suitable." Brother, eliminate all the buts. Crush them under your feet. Throw them away. All those parts are from Satan. Forget them. Raise your hands like this. Say Allahu Akbar. Throw the whole world behind you. Say Allahu Akbar. Say, my Lord, I come to your presence. Say I've come to repent. I've come to you, my Lord. Put your hands together over your abdomen and hold them firm. Lay your prayer mat, you won't lose anything. You will attain an eternal paradise. Inshallah.
If Allah commands something, it is done. Is it possible to bargain with Allah? Don't you understand that it is the trick of Satan (shaitan) look at the graveyard. Graveyards are full of people. Full of people who postpones. They are full of people who said; "I swear I'll start prayer when my life becomes regular. My environment is not suitable, so I will perform the prayer later." It's nonsense to say "I will postpone". There are thousands of millions of people at the graves filled with repentance. People suffering in the graves due to postponing prayers. Say "Bismiallah", Lay your prayer mat and say: " My Allah, I'll come to you. All the buts, all the ifs are over.
In your presence right now.