It is not necessary to be a good person, prayer and fasting are everyone's duty
You are a good person - you help your relatives, you give alms to the poor, you follow the rules and regulations of the country. Don’t do anything that goes against sociality and culture.
So even if you don't pray, there is no problem even if you don't fast, because these are just some formalities. The real thing is to do good to people by becoming an ideal citizen. Human religion is the real religion; The one who has mercy on the living is the one who serves God. If this is your idea, then your condition can be any one of the following three:You think that because of your educational qualifications and advanced judgment you can understand for yourself what is good and what is bad, and you can understand God and the purpose of His creation in a way that others cannot.
Prayer, fasting is only needed for those semi-educated, less-knowledgeable people who have not yet reached the highest level of depth of thought and perception like you. |
You think that whatever looks good from your ethical values is good in the eyes of Islam.
There is no need for the values of Islam outside of what people think is good and what is bad from their sense of principle. Man himself understands enough what is good and what is bad; There is nothing more to teach the people of God.
You think that you are not harmed without prayer and fasting, you are already good enough. Since you don't think you are being harmed, there is no need for you to listen to God's word. If not praying and fasting were such a bad thing, then you would have suffered a lot for so long. But nothing like that seems to be happening.
If you have this condition, congratulations! You are the perfect example of the three main ways to drown Satan's people. Of the many methods that Satan has successfully used to drown billions of people over the last millions of years, from the first man Adam (pbuh) to you-me, there are three main methods:
Satan makes people believe that - he is actually a good man, how much worse people are there in the worldWhen a traffic policeman takes a bribe of ten to twenty rupees from a rickshaw puller, he thinks that he is a good enough man, because he is not taking a bribe of thousands of rupees from truck drivers like a sergeant. A sergeant thinks that he is a good enough man because he is not selling cars confiscated by the police for millions of rupees like DC and building houses in Gulshan Banani. A DC thinks that he is a much better person than the ministers because he is not harming the country by killing millions of people. In each case, they have seized it, despite obstacles we can scarcely imagine. " And what will happen if he doesn't do wrong, whoever comes after him will do exactly the same thing.
Satan makes people believe that religion is not something to be learned, it is a matter of oneself and God. Do we have to study a common subject like religion again? What feels good to oneself is good to God, and what feels bad to oneself is bad to God. Moreover, what is the proof that the books I read to know about Islam are unadulterated? Those books are written by all the Kathmollas. It is better to follow what I think is good and bad than this. That's why you will see many people celebrating the birthdays of boys and girls like Christians, Akika; According to Hindu custom, he marries boys and girls with yellow and yellow rice. But when his parents die, he arranges for them to recite the Qur'an, celebrates forty, and organizes milads every year on the death anniversary. Satan has successfully persuaded them that these are all good deeds, Islamic deeds, keep going, Allah is very pleased with you
Satan makes people believe that - bad people like you will pray? Will you fast? How do you show your face to God in prayer? Aren't you ashamed to think of praying? You will see such people who go to the mosque one day a week to perform the Jumu'ah prayer and then open the wallet and take out the smallest note when they see a fakir on the street. But their race is so far. Satan has successfully persuaded them that they have no hope and that God cannot forgive them. So there is no benefit in praying and fasting. Just a waste of time, the trouble of not eating unnecessarily. Instead, take crores of rupees in bribes and give lakhs of rupees to the poor relatives from there, buy a house with a loan of crores of rupees and donate a thousand rupees to a school and college in a village house. Buy blankets and clothes for the poor people without paying zakat of lakhs of rupees year after year. That is why Allah will leave you in Hell for a few days.
If your condition is one of these three, do not be sad. Satan has done a lot of research on human psychology for millions of years. There is no other person in the world who is as experienced in human psychology as he is. The conversations of God with Satan recorded in the Qur'an after the creation of the first man, Adam, millions of years ago, provide ample evidence of Satan's vast knowledge. Then he knew how to fool people, that one day people will be judged, that he will be able to fool a large part of the human race and so on. And it is impossible to imagine where his knowledge and experience have reached millions of years later. He has become so experienced in giving people the most powerful instincts at the right time that in the twentieth century, he has been able to inspire people to kill with the same amount of people that have never died in the history of mankind. Every minute people listen to the devil's plots and commit an average of 6 rapes all over the world, kill hundreds of people every day, impoverish thousands and put them on the road, billions of people drown themselves in heinous, obscene acts. But God has given Satan the power to plot only in the subconscious mind of man. And he has empowered man not to listen to Satan's plots and to use his conscience to go astray. He also gave the Qur'an with 6347 sayings to help people more. Even then, people do not stop themselves from being unfaithful to God for most of the day in the pursuit of a little comfort, honor, and security by becoming Satan's servants.
Now you can claim - no, no, the devil is not telling me anything. I myself see no reason to pray or fast. So, my first question for you is:
Do you really believe that the Qur'an is not a man-made thing? Didn't it even come from a higher intelligent cosmic creature? Rather, does every verse of it come from the one and only Almighty Creator?
If you truly believe that every verse of the Qur'an is the word of God Himself and that it has come to us unchanged in the last 1400 years, then do you believe that the following verses are the word of God Himself - your only Lord and youHe said in the Qur'an on purpose:I am God. There is no lord worthy of worship except me. So serve me and pray regularly with devotion, so that you may always remember me. [Ta 20:14]
Be especially careful about the prayers, and pray in moderation. And stand before Allah with utmost devotion. [Baqarah 2: 237]
Read what is revealed in this book. Pray regularly with devotion. Surely prayer keeps you away from indecency and wrongdoing. [Al-Ankabut 29:45]
Pray regularly, pay zakat, and follow the Messenger, that you may receive My favor. [An-Noor 24:57]
Establish the prayer and pay the obligatory charity, and bow down with those who bow down. [Baqarah 2:43]
Now your condition can be any one of the following four:
1) You do not believe that these verses of the Qur'an are the words of your great Lord Himself. So you have no reason to believe anything in the Qur'an.
2) You believe that these are the words of God Himself, who is the only Lord of you, me, and He Himself has given you these commands directly. But even then you have decided that you will not obey his commands.
3) You know very well that these are the words of your great Lord, but you have made yourself understand that you are actually a lazy person and you do not pray just for laziness, nothing more. Do you have to pray every day? Five times a day! Again seven days a week !! Impossible. You will not have to work so hard. You're actually a bit of a cheat type person.
4) You think that your work is very important, you are doing a lot of good to people. If you don't do your job properly, you, your family, people will suffer a lot. GOD is fully aware of your responsibilities. So if you can't pray five times because of your busy schedule, then Allah will forgive you.
Now if your situation is (1) that you do not believe in the Qur'an itself is the word of Allah and in the Qur'an not once, not twice, a total of 72 times Allah has asked you to pray and you think all of them are nonsense, man-made, then I have nothing more to say. You become a Muslim first, then I will tell you about prayer. Unless you are a Muslim, whatever your name is Abdullah, Muhammad, Fatima, Ayesha, you have not yet converted to Islam. There are only a few Arabic words in your name, so far.But if your situation is (2) - where you know very well the Qur'an is the word of Allah and in the Qur'an Allah commands you to pray regularly, but you still decide that you will not listen to him and do not pray regularly, then your WithThere is no difference between a disbeliever.The word kafir literally means - denier, ungrateful, one who covers. In the language of the Qur'an, those who, after knowing the Qur'an very well, decide to disobey Allah's command knowingly and act accordingly - they are infidels.
Many of us think that Ramakrishna Babu next door is an infidel. The pastor of the church next door is a kafir. Bush infidel, Obama infidel. Our idea is that children are automatically kaafirs if they are born in a non-Muslim family without a name in Arabic. Similarly many of us think since my parents are a Muslim, so I am also a Muslim because there are some Arabic words in my name. Whether I believe in the basics of Islam or not, it doesn't matter. No, you know wrong. A person becomes a kaafir only when he knows very well that the Qur'an is the word of Allah, the Qur'an has reached him in a reliable way, but he still knowingly decides not to obey Allah's command given in the Qur'an. If someone does not deliver the Qur'an to your neighbor Ramakrishna Babu, he is not well understood what Islam is, then if he does not follow Islam then he is not a kaafir. He may be a mushrik, but not a kaafir. Rather, your parents can be infidels if they do not pray knowingly. Your own brothers and sisters can be infidels if they do not pray knowingly. You yourself can be a kaafir, if you do not pray knowingly. There is no disagreement among the scholars that a Muslim becomes a kaafir without praying. No matter how bad it may sound to you to hear the title 'Kafir', no matter how hard it may be to accept it, those who do not pray are Kafirs, no matter how close they are to you.
Ask yourself - has the Qur'an reached you in a reliable way? Do you know for sure that the Qur'an is the word of God? Have you ever seen with your own eyes or heard with your own ears that Allah has told you to pray many times in the Qur'an? If the answer is yes, and you still decide not to pray, then you are one of the disbelievers. Whatever God does with the disbelievers, God will do with you. Remind yourself once again how horrible it would be to read the Qur'an -
On that day the dwellers of Paradise will ask each other about the criminals. They will ask, "Who led you into the blazing fire?" They will say, "We did not pray." [Al-Muddaththir 74:43]
Allah will give extreme punishment to the nation that stops praying
But then after them came some nations who lost the prayer and were drowning in their own desires. They will soon face the consequences of their sins. [Mary 19:59]
So try to convince yourself, your parents, your brothers and sisters that they do not knowingly disobey God's command and bring about such a great defeat. Let them not burn in the blazing fire of Hell on the Day of Resurrection and say:
"We did not pray." [Al-Muddaththir 74:43]
And if your condition is (3), then you have immersed yourself in it thinking that you don't actually pray just by looking a little lazy type, nothing more. You can watch movies at night, but you can't pray. You can wander around the market for hours in vain, but you can't stand and pray for ten minutes. You can talk on the phone with friends and relatives for at least an hour every day, but you can't spend half an hour talking to God. You can spend a few hours a day on your son or daughter eating, bathing, sleeping, school, homework, but you can't spend half an hour on your master, your only lord. There can be no greater example than to deceive oneself.
"The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe." - Voltaire
In the language of psychology, your condition is called self-dellusion - self-delusion. Self-dilution is one of Satan's best ways to get people to do the same thing over and over again without giving them a chance to repent. You will see from time to time that you feel like praying, suddenly it seems that it is not right to skip the prayer. But then you will see a voice inside you telling you, but I have not read the prayer before, what will happen now? There is still a lot of time to end the time, the work can be done after the prayer? If I don't cook now, no one will be able to eat, surely Allah will understand my condition? How do I get up to pray while sitting my guest? Instead, I will recite all the prayers at once at night. These are the voices of the devil. Try to understand as soon as you can when there is a voice of thought inside you, when you are, and when it is the devil.
Those who directly benefit people - doctors, nurses, police, social workers are (4) beautiful examples of the condition. For example, doctors think - I'm a doctor! I save people's lives! Will Allah not forgive me from the account of prayer and fasting for such a great service to mankind? Is God so irrational? First, if doctors were so great, they would never be paid for their work. He used to treat people free of cost. They never used to work in a part-time private clinic by posting mama-chacha-khalu in Dhaka unjustly, but would rush to the treatment of needy, sick people in a distant village by posting themselves. When doctors are paid for their work, they are nothing more than a salaried employee. They are also benefiting people, and a sweeper is also benefiting people. Without sweepers, millions of people would have fallen ill and lived inhumane lives. The bigger the doctor, the bigger the charitable businessman, the bigger the teacher, you don't save a man's life; God saves people's lives. You do not convert people to Islam; God honors whomever He wills to follow His religion. There is no one in the world whose work is so important that if he does not pray or fast, Allah will leave him to account for the importance of his work. If that were the case, then no Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) would need to pray, he would not need to fast, and he would not need to pray during a war with the disbelievers.
Surely you are not doing more important work than them?
Seek help (from Allah) through patience and prayer, but it is certainly a difficult task, but it is not difficult for the humble, who know that one day they will meet their Lord and to Him they will return .