COOL DK:

Good Question!

Salat is something amazing in Islam and it is the way Muslims 'converse' with "Allah". Muslims make 'salat' every day, five times a day. Salat is a form of worship in the most distinguished and honorable form.
Salat is the second most important act of worship in Islam, after the shahadah (declaration of faith) and is often referred to as the second pillar of Islam.
Salat is obligatory worship and must be
performed five times a day at prescribed times.
These five times are dawn (Fajr), immediately after
noon (Dhuhr), mid-afternoon ('Asr), sunset
(Maghrib), and early night (Isha').

Ritual cleanliness and ablution are required
before salat, as are clean clothes and location, and the removal of shoes. One may pray individually or communally, at home, outside, virtually any clean place, as well as in a mosque, though the latter is preferred.
Special is the Friday noon prayer, called Jum'ah. It, too, is obligatory and is to be done in a mosque, in congregation.
It is accompanied by a sermon (Khutbah), and it replaces the normal Dhuhr salat.


Quran backings about Salat:

Qur’an 11:114—And keep up prayer in the two parts of the day and in the first hours of the night; surely good deeds take away evil deeds; this is a reminder to the mindful.

Qur’an 17:78-79—Establish regular prayers—at the sun’s decline till the darkness of the night, and the morning prayer and reading: for the prayer and reading in the morning carry their testimony. And pray in the small watches of the morning: (it would be) an additional prayer (or spiritual profit) for thee: soon will thy Lord raise thee to a Station of Praise and Glory!

Jazakumlahu Khairan

COOL DK:

Good Question!

Salat is something amazing in Islam and it is the way Muslims 'converse' with "Allah". Muslims make 'salat' every day, five times a day. Salat is a form of worship in the most distinguished and honorable form.
Salat is the second most important act of worship in Islam, after the shahadah (declaration of faith) and is often referred to as the second pillar of Islam.
Salat is obligatory worship and must be
performed five times a day at prescribed times.
These five times are dawn (Fajr), immediately after
noon (Dhuhr), mid-afternoon ('Asr), sunset
(Maghrib), and early night (Isha').

Ritual cleanliness and ablution are required
before salat, as are clean clothes and location, and the removal of shoes. One may pray individually or communally, at home, outside, virtually any clean place, as well as in a mosque, though the latter is preferred.
Special is the Friday noon prayer, called Jum'ah. It, too, is obligatory and is to be done in a mosque, in congregation.
It is accompanied by a sermon (Khutbah), and it replaces the normal Dhuhr salat.


Quran backings about Salat:

Qur’an 11:114—And keep up prayer in the two parts of the day and in the first hours of the night; surely good deeds take away evil deeds; this is a reminder to the mindful.

Qur’an 17:78-79—Establish regular prayers—at the sun’s decline till the darkness of the night, and the morning prayer and reading: for the prayer and reading in the morning carry their testimony. And pray in the small watches of the morning: (it would be) an additional prayer (or spiritual profit) for thee: soon will thy Lord raise thee to a Station of Praise and Glory!

Jazakumlahu Khairan

PEN_MIGHT: I once heard about a survey that was carried out in a Masjid.

A salat was just concluded and before people could hurriedly leave the masjid, a questioniare was administered on everyone that was about to exit the Masjid at the door.

The question was " Which Surahs did the Imam recite in the First and Second raka'ahs?

Though the Imam ,for the purpose of this survey, actually recited the commonly known short surahs in the last Juzu'.

Despite this, it is bilwildering that an amazingly negligible percentage could remember talkless or pondering on the surahs recited 5 mins after the salat.

This happens a lot- we are in salat yet our mind in miles away in the wilderness of thoughts mostly about this ephemeral Dunya.

Conduct this test on yourself and let's get ourseves evaluated before we are questioned.

The OP has admonished us.
We all have to be keenly watchful.

JazaakaAllaah.

another inspirin post.

ameen

ask the zionists (isreal)

I think the word communion used in no. 4 is not proper in the context it was used in relation to Allah. Allah knows best.

May God almighty bless you with that short NESIYAT

Salâmun'alaykum, may Allâh, indeed, reward the one who came out with the advice especially as it has something to do with the most important aspects of our lives.

confluence: May God almighty bless you with that short NESIYAT

Ameen and may Almighty Allah bless everyone of us

Jazakumllah kaeran. May Allah strenghten your knowledge.

jazakumlahu hairan