Turn to Allah, read your five Salah a day. A Muslim?! And he
does not read five Salah? Allahu Akbar! How can that be? My brothers and
sisters, if you have read one in the past, and now you're reading two, it's a
very big improvement. But that is not still...the ideal. You need to continue,
because as muslimeen, we have five prayers during the day and night. If you
look at the hadith of Mu'adh ibn Jabal (radiyAllahu Anhu), when he was sent to
Yemen; he was told to teach the people several items. From amongst them, one of
them was tell them...they OWE Allah (Glorified and Exalted be He) five daily
prayers, not two, not three.
You know, we word it differently when we speak to the
younger people. Sometimes we tell them you know, you need a key to enter; for
example let's say Paradise! You want to enter Paradise, you need a key. You
want to enter this door, you need a key. Each key, has a number of teeth. Just
like if I want to phone you, I need your phone number. Brother, if I have one
error in the whole phone number, I won't get through to you. You see. So, if I
would like Paradise, I need to read five Salah on a daily basis. That is the
figure. That is the number of teeth on the key. If you have one tooth missing,
what happens? Try it! Take your key and break out one tooth, put it in. It
won't open your door. But there are so many other teeth! One is missing. My brothers
and sisters, against your laziness...or mine, against...the coziness of your
bed, against, whatever...you are doing in the mall, or at your workplace, or
enjoying with your family. Stop everything at the time of Salah and quickly
fulfill your Salah. Imagine I'm saying 'quickly' whereas by right it is not
suposed to be done quickly. But! Even if you have done it, in the midst of your
work and you have fulfilled that Salah, come what may! Wallahi that may just be
the means of your entry into Paradise. Some of us are not submitters. You know,
we follow Islam where it, where it is easy for us, ONLY. Well, we need to do
better than that. Which means, where it is easy, all praise be to Allah. Where
it is difficult, we still want to try, and we still want to please Allah
(Exalted & Glorified may He be).
The other day, I got a beautiful message on my phone I need to share it with
you...It showed a little, caricature lifting weights. You know weights, which
have heavy weights, I think maybe 60-70 kilos on either side. And he's lifting
weights, he says, 'You think you're strong?' You see the question is, 'You
think you are powerful?.' Obviously this is because the young people of today,
they want to have big muscles you know, and they want to be seen! And they want
to be felt, when they greet you, you just got to say, 'wa alaykumussalam' (in a
humble tone), you know. Cause you cannot look at them anymore in the way we
used to in the past. No! Big man! You got to look at him carefully. So it says,
'if you think you're very strong...you can lift...lift your blanket for
Salat-ul-Fajr, then you will be strong.' Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! You're
strong? You want to lift, lift your blanket at Salat-ul-Fajr. That is the
heavyweight title, Allahu Akbar!
Youtube Video Link : Too Lazy to Pray?
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