What is the significance of the Islamic call to prayer?
What is the significance of prayer in Islam?
Prayer is the pillar of religion, the duty of the Lord of the worlds, and the path of the believers. Whoever preserves it will have light, proof, and deliverance on the Day of Resurrection, and whoever does not preserve it will have neither light nor proof, nor salvation on the Day of Resurrection, and prayer is a sign of the connection between the servant and the Lord, may He be glorified and exalted, and we can review With you, dear reader, you have some important points about this important obligation and the second pillar of Islam.

Prayer has great importance in the life of the believer, as it is the title of the obedient Muslim, and the path of connection for the humble believer, only a believer preserves it, and only a lazy believer or an adulterous hypocrite, and the scholars differed in the ruling of those who neglect it, and they are unanimously agreed that whoever neglects it has disbelieved, and that whoever neglects it With it in laziness and negligence, he has committed adultery, and that the one who neglects the prayer has no guarantee of a good conclusion, has exposed himself to loss, except that it hastens it through repentance and regret. He is in front of the enemy, and when God said:

“Indeed, prayer was given by believers.”Before that, he had detailed the conditions of prayer when confronting the enemy because of its importance, because by prayer he helps a person while he is in war, and because of it he is reconciled if he is in peace, and with its light, he relieves his distress.

Therefore, it is the first thing that a servant is asked about in the grave, and therefore the one who prays the prayer reaps the many benefits and fruits with its blessing. Hence, every Muslim should pray when it is time for prayers.

Second: Benefits of prayer

Prayer has great benefits and great fruits, lost by those who did not observe this timed obligation, and it included religious, heart, psychological, social, and other benefits, and among these benefits:

1) Praying is a comfort for the heart and reassurance for the heart and soul. 

2) Praying is a light for the person, and his share of the light of God Almighty is as much as his prayer, because of him in his life, and he feels comfort and connection with his Creator. He said:

Prayer is light. (Narrated by Imam Muslim in his Sahih

3) The goodness of work is as good as the goodness of the slave's prayer In the hadith:

The first thing that a servant will be held accountable for on the Day of Resurrection is prayer, and if it is correct, all his work is right for him, and if it is corrupted, all his work is corrupted. (Narrated by Al-Tabarani in Al-Mujam Al-Awsat)

4) Whoever preserves it has a covenant with God that he will enter Heaven:

Whoever brought them did not lose anything of them in disregard for their right, then God had a covenant with God to enter him into Heaven.

5) Prayer is safety against panic and anxiety, an initiative to goodness, and a distance from greed. Allah Almighty said:

Humans created panic if evil touched it with its ravages and if good people touched it in a variety of ways, except for those who pray,

6) Prayer helps the slave to stop immorality and evil God Almighty said:

Indeed, prayer is forbidden from obscenity and reprehensible, and the remembrance of Allah is greater.

7) One of its benefits is that it is forgiveness for sins and sins and what happens to the believer during his night and day.

8) It has social benefits, especially what God has prescribed in terms of congregational prayers, Friday prayers, and the two feasts, where the believers meet at the level of the same neighborhood every day five times in congregational prayers, and they meet in the same town once a week for Friday prayers, and in the year twice on the two holidays at the town level, This is one of the goals of Islam in legislating rapprochement and friendship, and emphasizing cooperation, compassion, and convergence.

9) That the person who performs the prayer is known on the Day of Resurrection with uncleanness and shamefulness, from the effect of ablution.

My nation will call on the Day of Resurrection uncleaned from the effect of ablution (Narrated by Bukhari and Muslim)

And in the verse:

He will raise them on their faces from the effect of prostration. (Al-Fath: 29)

10) And prayer has health and psychological benefits that a slave who keeps praying gets, but the greatest benefit after all of the above is that the slave feels slavery, which is the honor of the rational believer who has nothing but his Creator.

