Prayer is the sacred meeting in which every believer must seek to communicate with his Creator and abandon himself to Him:
“If you want Allah to speak to you, read the Koran, and if you want to converse with Him, say a prayer” said a mystic.
The Prophet (pbuh) was asked what the best work was. He replied: “Prayers on time. » It is the primordial attribute of sincere believers: { [… ] And those who assiduously observe their prayers. } [Surah 23 – Verse 9]
She is the light that guides the believer in the midst of darkness and his shield against all temptation and sin:
{ [… ] In truth, prayer protects us from turpitude and the blameworthy. }
[Surah 29 – Verse 45]
After one prayer, another prayer is in sight, and this, throughout the day. This increases in the believer an awareness of the divine Presence (murâqabatullah), which protects him from turpitude. It is the most effective way to have your sins forgiven. Indeed, the contemplation and reminder aroused by prayer must necessarily call the believer into question and place him before his responsibilities in order to be able to implore divine mercy and ask for forgiveness.
Abû Hurayra (rta) said:
“I heard the Messenger of Allah (azwadial) say: ‘What do you think if one of you had a river in front of his door in which he washed five times a day, would there be anything left of his dirt? ?” They said: “There would be nothing left for him.” He said: “Such is the impact of the five daily prayers by which Allah erases sins. ” »
When Satan comes to obscure our right path, the Merciful enlightens us with His light and saves us from certain loss, this is the meaning of the verse that the believer repeats 17 times a day – in Surah El-Fatiha (the opening) – during his five daily prayers:
{It is You (Alone) that we worship, and it is from You (Alone) that we implore help.
Guide us on the right path. } [Surah 1 – Verses 5-6]
This is the meaning of the following hadith: “The five (daily) prayers and the Friday prayer until the next one erase the sins committed between them as long as one has not committed greater ones. »
And in another verse from the Quran:
{And perform the prayer at both ends of the day and at some hours of the night.
Good deeds erase bad ones [… ] } [Surah 11 – Verse 114]
Prayer highlights man’s submission to his Creator.
This is, moreover, the meaning of the word Islam which means submission, which every human being needs to perfect their humanity.
Praying at five different times of the day is not in vain. Indeed, this prescription spread over day and night is symbolic for several reasons:
The first : the fact of spreading its periodicity over the day and night allows constant questioning and regularity in its relationships with Allah (azwadial).
The second : as explained previously, prayer is a meditation with the Lord, which allows, on each occasion, to recharge one’s batteries by communicating with Him. This is why the Messenger of Allah (azwadial) when the time of prayer arrived, said to Bilâl (rta): “Comfort us with prayer, O Bilâl! »
The third : the only possible link between our materiality and His Transcendence is recall and remembrance (dhikr). This reminder is constantly recommended to us by the Quran, either to merit that the Merciful One thinks of us:
{Think of Me and I will think of you […] }
[Surah 2 – Verse 152]
Either to have peace of soul and harmony of heart:
{Is it not through the remembrance of Allah that hearts are calmed? }
[Surah 13 – Verse 28]
Or, finally, to ward off the temptation of the Devil.
Allah (azwadial) exhorts us to remember Him at all times. This attachment of the believer to his Creator is his best consolation in the face of the harsh realities of this world and it is, at the same time, his greatest guarantee of eternal salvation. This constant thought is made concrete by this well-codified basic obligation that is prayer.
The fourth : repeating the rite of prayer is also a way of expressing our gratitude to the One to Whom we owe everything and Who owes us nothing. In a qudsî hadîth:
“I (Allah), the jinn and men are in an extraordinary situation. I create and we worship other than Me. I meet the needs, and we thank other than Me. My benefits, for them, descend, and their ingratitude towards Me ascends towards Me. I arouse their love with my possessions although I have no need of them, and they arouse my wrath with their sins although they cannot do without Me […]”
Worship is the manifestation of gratitude, the supreme goal is to love and arouse the love of the Almighty. Everything that emanates from Allah (azwadial) is a sign and a call to His love.
The Muslim does not need miracles in his life to love Allah. Finding himself filled with His perceptible and imperceptible benefits, he finds himself under the moral obligation to praise Allah (al-hamd) and to never stop invoking Him. When love for someone invades us, we never stop invoking their name. Doesn’t Allah (azwadial) deserve to be loved?
{ […] Now, the believers are the most ardent in the love of Allah […] }
[Surah 2 – Verse 165]
The minimum of gratitude is this inclination in prayer, five times a day, which symbolizes with excellence the gesture of gratitude that we owe to our Lord:
{And if you count the blessings of Allah, you will not be able to number them. Allah is Forgiving and Merciful. }
[Surah 16 – Verse 18]
Thus, “prayer punctuates the daily life of the Muslim. Five times a day, he withdraws from the affairs of this world to follow the direction (qibla) and draw his spiritual strength from the memory of Allah. »
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