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Importance of Salah and Congregational Prayer
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It is significant to alert that many people ignore offering Salah though it is the pillar of Islam and the most important religious obligation after the two declarations of faith.
The matter that differentiates us from them (the disbelievers and hypocrites) is Salah; if anyone (of us) abandons it, he becomes a disbeliever.
What makes one a disbeliever and a polytheist is abandoning Salah.
required to seek guidance from their acts.
Zakah (obligatory charity) is among the greatest religious obligations and is the third of the Pillars of Islam. Therefore, it is necessary to pay it great attention and give it to those who deserve it.
Likewise, Sawm (fasting) of Ramadan, a Muslim should take due care and observance of this pillar, for it is the fourth pillar of the five pillars of Islam. Sawm should be observed from things that Allah prohibited and performed in accordance with the teachings of Shari`ah so that one's sins are removed by it.
Whoever observes Sawm (fasting) during the month of Ramadan out of sincere faith and seeking Allah's reward, his past sins will be forgiven.
By Al-' Asr (the time). Verily, man is in loss, Except those who believe (in Islâmic Monotheism) and do righteous good deeds, and recommend one another to the truth
what is wrong.
Those among the Children of Israel who disbelieved were cursed by the tongue of Dâwûd (David) and ' Isâ (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary). That was because they disobeyed (Allâh and the Messengers) and were ever transgressing beyond bounds. They used not to forbid one another from Al-Munkar (wrong, evil-doing, sins, polytheism, disbelief) which they committed. Vile indeed was what they used to do.
By Al-'Asr (the time). Verily, man is in loss, Except those who believe (in Islâmic Monotheism) and do righteous good deeds, and recommend one another to the truth