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Prayer According to holy saying of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (SAWAW): "Prayer is the pillar of Deen". Prayer is also a mean of meeting with Almighty Allah(SWT) and requesting Him for Straight Path. Once Hadrat Jibreel-e-Ameen (AS) came in the state of human in the holy bargah of the Holy Prophet (SAWAW) in which many disciples were also present, and questioned: "Ya Rasool Allah (SAWAW): "What is Ehsaan?" The Holy Prophet(SAWAW) answered: "Ehsaan is that you do Ibadah as if you are seeing Almighty Allah (SWT) and if you are not seeing then you must believe that Almighty Allah (SWT) is seeing you". The first part of the holy saying escaped attention of Learned Religious Scholars and they attended to the second part and started instigating Muslims to do Ibadah with this doctrine that Almighty Allah(SWT) is seeing them, whereas seeing Almighty Allah(SWT) is definitely possible but for those who entered into Islam by giving Oath of Allegiance to the Holy Prophet (SAWAW) and later, on the hands of Awliya Allah and firmly maintained uprightness on their Faith. Hadrat Sultan Muhammad Bahu (RA) says: "None of my prayers was without seeing Almighty Allah". The dignity an excellence of Awliya Allah is only because they always obeyed the Holy Prophet(SAWAW) the right way.
Moreover, offering prayer in a mosque is for Muslims to get together and strengthen such lovely relations with one another so that later on, these relations may help them to convert these relations into family relations. The present state of affairs of Muslims is that they merely offer prayer and hurry to leave the mosque without even handshaking with one Muslim and the other.
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Fasting The Holy Quran says: "O'those who believe, fasting is conditioned upon you as it was conditioned upon past nations so that you may become abstainer". Moreover, Almighty Allah says in His Holy Book that fasting is for Me and I shall reward for it.
Fasting is not only for refraining from eating anything - it is equally compulsory for ears, eyes, tongue and hands. It means to refrain from hearing bad words, seeing bad things, speaking bad words and doing bad things with hands.
The Holy Quran further says: "No one is worthy of respect and regard except those who are abstainers". |
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Pilgrimage According to holy saying of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (SAWAW): "Performing pilgrimage once in a life is compulsory for every Muslim who may afford incurring of expenditure on journey to Makkah". The actions of pilgrimage starts from Bait-tul-Allah and ends in Madinah Munawarrah. Pilgrimage is the last mean of getting together of Muslims and finding nearness with one Muslim and the other.
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Zakat Paying Zakat is conditioned upon those Muslims who may afford according to the limit prescribed by Shariah. The main aim of Zakat is to keep every Muslim at par with other Muslims who are financially sound, so that poverty may not come into Muslim society and every Muslim should take care of one another. Although Zakat is compulsory to be paid once in a year but paying alms and charity to poor Muslims is compulsory throughout the year in order to save poor Muslims from deprivation caused by poverty. The state of today's Muslims is that rich is becoming richer and poor is becoming poorer. Since Muslims do not concentre into Quranic orders which comes in the beginning of Surah Baqra, poor Muslims are victimized by poverty and deprivation - hence imbalanced society. Tendency also exists in Muslim society to store wealth to save their "tomorrow" whereas they are not sure of their next moment of life, which results in financial imbalance amongst rich and poor Muslims.
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Livelihood Permitted in Shariah Earning livelihood as permitted in Shariah and refraining from non-permitted livelihood is compulsory for all Muslims because it is equally part of the Pillars of Faith. The present state of livelihood of Muslims is that every Muslim, if he possesses sufficient amount of funds, fixedly deposits in a bank and feel pleasure on receiving plentiful "Interest" (Sood) which is not permitted in Shariah. It means Muslims spend on their daily life expenses out of the amount received as "Interest" which is against the law of nature and totally forbidden in Shariah. As a result of this, prays of Muslims do not enjoy acceptance of Almighty Allah (SWT) and on the contrary such Muslims automatically fall in diseases and other social problems and later they complain that although they do Ibadah yet their prays do not get accepted by Almighty Allah but they do not bother to concentrate on the fact that as to whether expenses on their daily life are forbidden in Shariah or not. |
| May Almighty Allah (SWT) bless Muslims with wisdom to rightly fulfill the Pillars of Islam. Ameen! |
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