The prayer performance leaves
several marks or signs behind. They are as follows:
First: Security and
Protection
The most important of the prayer's
direct effects on man is preventing him from doing what stands as
negating the human manners and that really requires the prayer to
be spiritually present in man's whole entity in all the process
of its performance in uttering words and doing deeds.
When man repeats at intervals the
phrase "Allah is the Greatest" he has to bear in mind that Allah,
the Almighty, that Allah is greater than man's will which makes
him feel the arbitrary unmeasurable power that can prevents him
from imposing injustice, killing and transgression on people or
doing any other disdainful act he intended to do.
Allah, the Almighty, says in His
holy Quran: "Verily, (the prayer) prevents you from doing
(Al-Fahisha) (i.e. great sins of every kind, unlawful social
intercourse) and Al-Munkar (i.e. disbelief, polytheism, and every
kind evil wicked deed. (Al-Ankabut:45).
The more the Moslem's love for his
prayer becomes in accuracy, the greater his nearness to Allah
will be-that is, the Moslem whose ideal objective is Monotheism
(Oneness of God) and sincerity which both prevent him from
submitting to falsehood and injustice. Allah, to Whom be ascribed
all glory and perfection says: "And He will surely give them in
exchange a safe security after their fear (provided) they
(believers) worship Me and do not associate anything (in worship)
with Me. But whoever disbelieves after this, they are the
Fasiqun, rebellious, disobedient to Allah) And perform As-Salat
and give Zakat and obey the Messenger that you may receive mercy
(from Allah) (An-Nur :55-56).
After Allah, the Almighty forbids
His slaves from polytheism and invites them to maintain His
Oneness, then directly comes the command that you shall establish
the Prayer, there is, in fact, an intimate adherence or
connection between it and piercing through the curtains of
polytheism.
Secondly: The Prayer inherits the
spirit of kindness and charity amongst people in addition to the
fortification which the Moslems require by means of the prayer,
the Moslems also require from their Almighty, to be, in return,
charitable to them, too.
So, the charitable are those who establish the
prayer, as it came in the holy Quran: "Guidance and Mercy to the
Charitable who establish the Prayer and give Zakat and they
themselves who believes in the Hereafter. (Luqman
3-4).
Thirdly: Purification of the human
self
But as regards, the purity of the
human self which is expressed in the Islamic and moral
conceptuality – the so-called: self-purification. The best means
which can provide the appropriate ground for it is the permanence
of the Prayer where in Our Lord says in the holy Quran: " Verily,
man was created impatient" Irritable, (discontented) when evil
touches him." Niggardly, when good touches him, " except those
who are devoted to As-Salat (prayers)
(Al-Ma'arij-19-23)
On the whole, the establishment of
the prayers and their continuous attendance at due times will
transfer the Moslem prayer performer to the purity level and the
development of the soul unto a sublime level which can properly
termed as: "self-reform" and with regard to this point Allah, the
Almighty says: "And as to those who hold fast to the Book (i.e.
act on its teachings) and perform As-Salat. (Iqamat As-Salat)
certainly, We shall never waste the reward of those who do
righteous deeds."(Al-Araf: 170).
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