Sunday, November 30, 2008

How to improve our daily prayers?




Prophet Muhammad(pbuh) emphasized that prayer is the back-bone in the muslims life.....it is very important for us as a muslim to perform our daily prayers properly as stated by Allah and prophet Muhammad(pbuh).........

As a muslim,we are ordered to bow and prostrate Allah,performing prayers is an obligation that must be carried out sincerely(not halfheartedly).it is not only the matter of following god orders but as the way to show our gratefulness and humbleness to the creator.

here are some tips that i would like to share with all friends out there:

1.salat must be performed in congregation(jama'a)
And observe prayers and pay zakat(almsgiving) and bow down with those who bow.....2:43

as stated by hadith told from Ibn Umar.....Rasulullah(pbuh) said:
the reward for those who perform prayers in jama'a outweights that of salat performed individually by 27 degrees .
this is one of the saying to show the importance and the virtue of performing prayers in congregation

2.salat must be carried out on time.....it is much more effective to do salat on time rather than delaying the
salat.....

3.try to do a routine of supplementary salat(nafl) as it is regarded as a compensation for the obligatory prayer which is performed in a weak manner

4.although it is not an obligatory for us,but it is important to improve one's prayer,by doing frequent ablution....it is of importance to refresh our wudhu' even it is still valid...ablution by the way is to achieve physical cleansing and also as a symbol of spiritual cleansing....

5.prepare before prayer by wearing the best attire we can afford.......your attire should be decent and clean...your hair must be combed...your teeth must be brushed...and moderately perfume urself...this is very important because we are going to meet the king of all the king...to narrate our words in front of Him

6.saying Allahuakbar when we are about to begin our prayer as this is the way to disconnect ourselves from the outer world and begin our connection to god

7.perform the prayer with self concious

8.avoid hypocrisy(riya') while doing prayers....the sign of hypocrisy is u are going to perform prayer in the presence of others and ignoring prayer when u are alone....

9.do a short pause be4 bowing(sujud)...prophet muhammad used to do this in his solat

these are useful tips that i can give to all friends....i hope we can improve our prayers as only prayer can prevent us from doing any misdeeds which can cause anger of god...thanx 4 this time

1 comment:

Mukmin bin Mohd Khairi said...

one of the indicators that we were achieving our solah is that the solah should prevents us from doing such of the mungkar...
Say we did solah for more than 13 years right now( if we started as early as 7)... thus how the experienced solah made us such a truly slave to our God..
wut had we done now, and in the past.. a time for muhasabah i think...