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HOW TO PRAY 5 TIMES A DAY I want to pray the five daily prayers on time, but I have trouble doing them on time and regularly. How can I get into it? By: Mariam Amirebrahimi - Suhaib Webb Dear Questioner,
As you developed and learned how to eat for yourself, you most likely recognized the call to hunger and developed a habitual response (i.e. eating). The type and proportions of food you ate began to impact your body; the healthy foods for your body helped nourish you and strengthened your physical and mental development.
The fact that you even care about your prayers is an incredible sign of God’s love for you and His desire to keep you close to Him! How many Muslims do you know personally who have not prayed in years and who have no desire to do so? God has honored you by placing in your heart the desire to fulfill this part of your relationship with Him. The question is: will you accept being chosen and show Him that you The overindulgence of food or consistent consumption of unhealthy and junky foods likely began to deteriorate your really care? body. Eventually, your time will pass and your soul will Praying the five daily prayers on time, everyday, is a good depart. Your body will no longer feel the need for, nor be habit that just needs to be built. You’ve been building habits able to respond to, the call of hunger. since you were a child and this is just another habit you need The habit of eating when feeling hungry is one you to develop and strengthen. developed; even if it was time consuming, you realized it How do I know you’ve been habit building? Without was something you had to do to survive. knowing you, I’m going to give you a simple example. Let’s now consider salah (prayer). Everyday, five times a Consider the call of hunger. When you were an infant and day, your body, your heart and your soul, are begging you you were hungry, you’d likely call out for someone to to respond to the call to prayer. For those who choose to quell the pain of your hunger. Someone in your life most respond to the call to prayer, you satiate your body, heart, likely came to help you take care of this need; they fed and and soul. However, just as with food, this satiation comes in nourished you, and your body, in turn, responded and began different ways. Those who come to prayer with presence of heart and mind, with focus and desire to nourish and cleanse to grow. 38
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