Quotes About Salah (Formal Prayer)

“Oh external worshiper, know that worship without heart is motions. Oh seeker of knowledge, know that knowledge without purification is a dangerous weapon of the ego. Oh activist, know that work without orientation of heart is fruitless. Oh lover, know that love without God is pain.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Your vehicle to God is your prayer mat. The only safe spot on this ruined earth is the prayer mat.

Dr. Mustafa Mahmud

“A disputing group of Muslims asked him [the Imam Hasan al-Banna] about the taraweeh prayer (the voluntary prayer done on the nights of Ramadan), whether it is composed of 20 units, like it is common in Meccca and Medina and other places, and which is recommended by the Four Schools of Jurisprudence, or of 8 units, like some Salafi evangelists insist? The people of the village who asked this question were on the verge of fighting on this issue.

The Sheikh's ruling was that the taraweeh prayer is a voluntary act, while the unity of the Muslim community is obligatory, so how can an obligatory act be ignored for the sake of a voluntary act? [He advised that] it is better and more pious if they pray alone in their homes instead of disputing and fighting over the topic.

Yusuf al-Qaradhawi

“The first thing that Shaytan (Satan) will try to do is get you to stop praying. You know why? Because he has to kill the guard if he wants to penetrate the castle. Once the guard is gone, then Shaytan (Satan) can open the floodgates for evil. And he has a lot of patience. He has done this to many people before so he’s experienced as well.

Nouman Ali Khan

“We live in a society where we wake up our kids for school but not Fajr.

Nouman Ali Khan

“The dua made at tahajjud (voluntary night prayer) is like an arrow which does not miss its target.

Imam ash-Shafi`i

“These rakaat (units of prayer) can save the future of one's children! For Abdullah ibn Masud used to pray during the night while his little son was sleeping, and he would look at him and say: "For your sake, my son!" And he would cry and recite His words, exalted and high: "And their father was a righteous man..." (Quran 18:82)

Muhammad al-Ghazali

“Whoever continuously abandons the sunnah (voluntary) prayers, then this shows a weakness in his religion.

Ibn Taymiyyah

“Where your mind goes during prayer is where your heart is. Take it back to your Lord.

Abdulbary Yahya

“The Prophet (salAllaahu ‘alayhi wa salaam) used to pray Fajr prayer early while it was still very dark (outside), and the believing women would attend the congregation. After the prayer the women would disperse in the dark and they could not be seen nor did they recognize one another.

Aisha bint Abu Bakr (Wife of Prophet Muhammad)

“It isn't a coincidence that prayer was commanded right after the year of sadness. The prayer was the greatest comfort.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Our five daily prayers are a way to curb over-attachment to anything material. The five prayers regulate our lives with their specific timings to teach us that indeed God is greater than anything else that we might be occupied in at that moment. The dawn prayer teaches us that the most beloved thing to us, comfort and sleep, should not control us – so we rise up in the cold morning, wash ourselves and pray in an acknowledgement that God is greater than our love of comfort and sleep. The midday and afternoon prayer teaches us that no matter how engrossed we are with work or the short lunch hour that we so highly value, it’s not the purpose of our existence. So we leave it for a few minutes and stand and pray testifying that God is indeed greater. On Friday, we dedicate most, if not all of our lunch hour to attend the Friday sermon and prayer. The dusk prayer, that time when we’re finally home and about to spend time with our family, eat dinner or simply relax – we get up and pray together to confirm that God is Greater than any of that. Finally the night prayer, Isha’ – when we’re tired after a long day of work and responsibilities ready to fall into bed and sleep, we pray again proving that submitting to God is greater than falling into the warm bed. All these serve as constant reminders to us that as much as we love life, we live for a higher purpose.

Mansoor Ahmed

“Everything you say or allow into your eyes or ears becomes data that is stored in your heart. That data is later replayed during your prayer. If you want to know what is filling your heart, look at what you think about in your prayer. If you want to guard your heart, guard your eyes, ears, and tongue.

Yasmin Mogahed

“If one of you leads salah (formal prayer), then let him make it easy on them (by making it quick), for there are among them those who are ill, weak, or old. And if one of you prays alone, then let him make it as lengthy as he wishes.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“The most important of your affairs in my view is prayer; whoever prays regularly has protected his faith, but whoever neglects it, is bound to more negligent in other issues of faith.

Umar ibn al-Khattab

“Wash your heart every morning with salat, then warm it up with dhikr. Approach life with hope and faith. Every day do your best, Allah will do the rest.

Wael Abdelgawad

“Allah, Glorified and Exalted, made the prayer a connective case to His closeness, dialogue [with Him], His love, and intimacy with Him.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“How can you trust one who doesn't pray. If he abandons his Maker, what makes you think he won’t abandon you?

Mufti Ismail Menk

“A busy life makes prayer harder, but prayer makes a busy life easier.

Abdal Hakim Murad (Timothy Winter)

“Saying I don’t pray but my heart is clean, is like saying I don’t brush my teeth but my mouth is clean.

Abdulbary Yahya

“You were born to pray. So why would you rush during that which you were born for?

Husain Abdul Sattar

“The first Sunnah that the Muslims abandoned was coming early to Jumu'ah.

Imam az-Zarkashi

“You want a real jihad? Smile to your parents when you come home. Pray on time. Control your tongue, remind your brothers and sisters not to loosen theirs. Control your eyes, and control your thoughts.

Wisam Sharieff

“On that Day, we will see the true reality. On that Day, we will realize that two rak`at (units) of prayer were greater than everything in the heavens and the earth. We will realize the priceless check that was left on our doorstep every night as we slept. There will come a day when we would give up everything under the sky just to come back and pray those two rak`at.

Yasmin Mogahed

“It sounds comical, but the truth is we put the needs of our body above the needs of our soul. We feed our bodies, because if we didn’t, we’d die. But so many of us starve our souls, forgetting that if we are not praying our soul is dead. And ironically, the body that we tend to is only temporary, while the soul that we neglect is eternal.

Yasmin Mogahed

“There are many people who say they don’t have time to pray at work or school, or while they’re out. But how many have ever said they don’t have time to go to the bathroom, so while out, at work or school have opted instead to just wear Depends? How many of us just don’t feel like waking up at Fajr time if we need to use the bathroom, and choose instead to wet our bed? The truth is we’ll get out of bed, or leave class, or stop work, to use the bathroom, but not to pray.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Something to reflect on: We will wake up in the middle of the night when our child calls for us, but not when God calls for us.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Lack of khushoo is just a symptom. What captures your heart and mind outside salah, will capture your heart and mind inside salah.

Yasmin Mogahed

“If you're having trouble waking up for fajr, set your alarm to play Quran. It works!

Yasmin Mogahed

“Yesterday we woke up at dawn to catch the best Black Friday sales. Today we sleep through Fajr.

Yasmin Mogahed

“What occupies us in salah is what occupies us outside salah.If we only think of dunya outside salah, we can only think of dunya inside salah.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Sufyan Ath-Thawri said: "Du`a' on that night is more beloved to me than salah". He meant that do make much du`a' is better than a salah that doesn't include much du`a'. And if he recited [i.e. performed salah] and made du`a' that would be good and the Prophet ﷺ used to perform tahajjud in the nights of Ramadan and he would recite a rolling recitation and wouldn't pass a verse that mentioned mercy except that he asked [for it from Allah] and he wouldn't pass a verse that mentioned punishment except that he sought protection [from Allah]. Thus he would combine salah, recitation, du`a', and reflection. And this is the best and the most complete form of good deeds in the last ten nights [of Ramadan] and all other times.

Sheikh Ahmad al-Ajmi

“On that Day, the people of paradise will ask those who have entered Hell-fire, why they have entered it. And the Qur’an tells us exactly what their first response will be: ”What led you into Hell Fire? They will say: ‘We were not of those who prayed.’” (Qur’an, 74:42-43)

Yasmin Mogahed

“The first thing which will be judged among a man’s deeds on the Day of Resurrection is the Prayer. If this is in good order then he will succeed and prosper but if it is defective then he will fail and will be a loser.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“Salah is the first thing we will be asked about on the Day of Judgment, and yet it is the last thing that is on our mind.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Salah is something we squeeze into our day, when we find time—if that. Our ‘lives’ don’t revolve around salah. Salah revolves around our ‘lives.’ If we’re in class, salah is an afterthought. If we’re at the mall, the Macy’s sale is more urgent. Something is seriously wrong when we put aside the very purpose of our existence in order to watch a basketball game.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Reflecting upon this incident scholars have explained that the process of going from fifty to five was a deliberate one, intended to teach us the true place salah should hold in our lives. Imagine for a moment actually praying fifty times a day. Would we be able to do anything else but pray? No. And that’s the point. What greater way than that to illustrate our life’s true purpose? As if to say, salah is our real life; all the rest that we fill our day with…just motions.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Five times a day we must pull away from the dunya to focus on our Creator and ultimate purpose. Five times a day, we detach ourselves from whatever we are doing of worldly life, and turn to God. Prayer could have been prescribed only once a day or week or all five prayers could have been done at one time each day. But it is not. The prayers are spread throughout the day. If one keeps to their prayers at their specified times, there is no opportunity to get attached. As soon as we begin to become engrossed in whatever dunya matter we’re involved in (the job we’re doing, the show we’re watching, the test we’re studying for, the person we can’t get off our mind), we are forced to detach from it and turn our focus to the only true object of attachment.

Yasmin Mogahed

“With every delayed or missed prayer, a hidden battle is being waged: The battle of shaytan. By abandoning the salah, the human being has put down the armor given to them by Allah, and has entered the battle field with no protection. Now shaytan can have full reign. Of this truth Allah says: “And whoever is blinded from remembrance of the Most Merciful – We appoint for him a devil, and he is to him a companion.” (Qur’an, 43:36)

Yasmin Mogahed

“There is one common denominator for every individual who lives a life full of sin. Whether that person was once on the straight path and fell, or whether that person was never on that path at all, one thing is for sure. That person had to first abandon, minimize, put aside, or ignore their salah (prayer) before they were able to fall.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Wish to have a private conversation with Allah? Wake up an hour before Fajr and lower your head to the ground in tahajjud...

Yasir Qadhi

“When I am feeling down, two things cheer me up: lengthening my prostration, & playing with my children. I thank Allah for Islam and family!

Yasir Qadhi

“The sweetness of tahajjud is found in prolonged sujood.

Yasir Qadhi

“Why is that we can stay awake at night to talk to others, but have so much difficulty staying awake to talk to Allah?

Yasir Qadhi

“al-Awzai (d. 157) was asked how to achieve khushu in prayer : "Controlling the eyes, humbling the limbs, and softening the heart."

Abd ar-Rahman al-Awza'i

“If you don't try to wake up for Fajr, there is really no benefit in you waking up at all.

Yasir Qadhi

“Prolonging your sajda while praying is one of the best ways to increase Iman and feel the sweetness of salat - try it!

Yasir Qadhi

“If you ever find yourself rushing through salat [prayer] to make it to another engagement, it's time to reorganize your priorities.

Yasir Qadhi

“The Prayer is a garden of `ibaadaat (acts of worship), in which every splendid type of worship is found. There is the takbeer, by which the prayer is initiated, the standing in which the person praying recites the words of Allaah, the bowing in which he extols his Lord, the rising from the bowing position, which is filled with the praising of Allaah, the prostration in which he glorifies Allaah by His highness and in which he implores him through supplication, the sitting in which there is the tashahhud and (more) supplication and the closing with tasleem. The Prayer is a means of support and assistance in times of distress and grief. And it prevents one from evil and shameful deeds. Allaah says: “Seek assistance in patience and prayer.” And He says: “Recite what has been revealed to you from the Book and establish the prayer. Verily, the prayer prevents one from evil and shameful deeds.”

Muhammad ibn Salih al-`Uthaymeen

“Laziness in performing the prayer is a sign that the heart does not long after Allah SWT.

Khalid Yasin

“The point of your prayer is to converse with your Lord in intimacy.

Abul Hasan ash-Shadhili

“The most thieving among people: Those who steal their salah, not finishing its ruku`s and sujoods properly, and the most miserly of people: those who do not reply to a salam.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“O you who worship without the presence of the heart! The likeness of you is as the likeness of a donkey that has had its eyes blindfolded while turning the mill. It thinks it has walked many miles, when it fact it has not left its place.

Imam Abdul-Qadir Gilani

“O my son, let not the birds be more clever than you are. They call in the early hours of dawn while you are asleep.

Luqman al-Hakim (Luqman The Wise)

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