Delaying salah

Do you often delay Salah or do you always pray on time?

When you are always late for salah (prayer), it says a lot about you and your character. It shows that you lack discipline, internal strength, and integrity to be where you are supposed to be ‘on time’ for your most important appointments of the day, and you are not dependable.

No one likes to say about themselves that they are not dependable or lack discipline, but actions speak louder than words, and being late for salah is the first warning that you are on a slippery slope towards being chronically late in everything else in your life.

Al-Hasan Al-Basri  said: “When salah is the least of your concerns, then what is your most important concern? As much as you fix your salah, your life will be fixed. Did you not know that salah was equated with Success: ‘Come to Prayer, Come to Success.’ How can you ask Allah  for success when you are not responding to His right upon you?”

If you are wondering why there is a delay in your sustenance, in your marriage, in your work, in your health, look into your Salah. Ask yourself: Am I often delaying Salah?

‘If we truly have faith in the unseen and have faith in the Messenger  of Allah  telling us that Allah  wants us to meet Him 5 times every day in our salah, then we should take salah more seriously.’

“And enjoin prayer upon your family [and people] and be steadfast therein. We ask you not for provision; We provide for you, and the [best] outcome is for [those of] righteousness.”

Qur’an: Chapter 20, Verse 132

May Allah make us punctual in our prayers and may He subhaanahu wa ta’ala grant us the tawfeeq to not delay or miss our 5 daily appointments with Allah.