Too Lazy To Pray? - Watch This! ᴴᴰ ┇ Amazing Reminder ┇ by Mufti Ismail Menk

Turn to Allah, read your five Salah a day. A Muslim?! And he does not read five Salah? Allahu Akbar! How can that be? My brothers and sisters, if you have read one in the past, and now you're reading two, it's a very big improvement. But that is not still...the ideal. You need to continue, because as muslimeen, we have five prayers during the day and night. If you look at the hadith of Mu'adh ibn Jabal (radiyAllahu Anhu), when he was sent to Yemen; he was told to teach the people several items. From amongst them, one of them was tell them...they OWE Allah (Glorified and Exalted be He) five daily prayers, not two, not three. You know, we word it differently when we speak to the younger people. Sometimes we tell them you know, you need a key to enter; for example let's say Paradise! You want to enter Paradise, you need a key. You want to enter this door, you need a key. Each key, has a number of teeth. Just like if I want to phone you, I need your phone number. Brother, if I have one error in the whole phone number, I won't get through to you. You see. So, if I would like Paradise, I need to read five Salah on a daily basis. That is the figure. That is the number of teeth on the key. If you have one tooth missing, what happens? Try it! Take your key and break out one tooth, put it in. It won't open your door. But there are so many other teeth! One is missing. My brothers and sisters, against your laziness...or mine, against...the coziness of your bed, against, whatever...you are doing in the mall, or at your workplace, or enjoying with your family. Stop everything at the time of Salah and quickly fulfill your Salah. Imagine I'm saying 'quickly' whereas by right it is not suposed to be done quickly. But! Even if you have done it, in the midst of your work and you have fulfilled that Salah, come what may! Wallahi that may just be the means of your entry into Paradise. Some of us are not submitters. You know, we follow Islam where it, where it is easy for us, ONLY. Well, we need to do better than that. Which means, where it is easy, all praise be to Allah. Where it is difficult, we still want to try, and we still want to please Allah (Exalted & Glorified may He be).

The other day, I got a beautiful message on my phone I need to share it with you...It showed a little, caricature lifting weights. You know weights, which have heavy weights, I think maybe 60-70 kilos on either side. And he's lifting weights, he says, 'You think you're strong?' You see the question is, 'You think you are powerful?.' Obviously this is because the young people of today, they want to have big muscles you know, and they want to be seen! And they want to be felt, when they greet you, you just got to say, 'wa alaykumussalam' (in a humble tone), you know. Cause you cannot look at them anymore in the way we used to in the past. No! Big man! You got to look at him carefully. So it says, 'if you think you're very strong...you can lift...lift your blanket for Salat-ul-Fajr, then you will be strong.' Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! You're strong? You want to lift, lift your blanket at Salat-ul-Fajr. That is the heavyweight title, Allahu Akbar!