How Do We Motivate Ourselves to Steadily Adhere to Solat?

How Do We Motivate Ourselves to Steadily Adhere to Solat?

Imagine your child who claims they love you dearly, but they fail to abide by your instructions. How much would you trust them in their claims? We all claim “love” for Allah, but we almost, always fail to attend to the basics of His instructions. How then, do we expect Him to trust us in our claims; that we “love” Him?

In order for us to self-motivate ourselves, and steadily adhere to our solat, we can consider practising one of the following characteristics, or we can combine all together, as possible. The three characteristics are:

1. Remember that Solat was decreed and prescribed by Allah, s.w.t.; 
2. Visualize the rewards, awaiting those who establish solat,
3. Be mindful of the consequences of missing solat

By: ameng On 8:29 PM

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Why do I find it difficult to pray?

Alhamdulillah; all thanks and praises are due to Allah, alone; Lord of the worlds. May His Peace and Blessings be upon the best establisher of solat, Habibi Muhammad, his family members, his companions and all those who follow their guided path, till the Day of Judgment.

Sometimes, we start to feel lazy, as solat time gets closer. Or, the nearer it is time for solat, the busier we get. One may not yawn the whole day until they stand in front of Allah and say ‘Allahu Akbar’. One may not be able to sleep the whole night, but wait until it’s five minutes to azan for ‘fajr’, they suddenly (unwillingly, luckily) go into very deep worlds of dreams. At times, we prioritize sleeping over solat, and as a result, we delay the solat (in the best scenarios), or we don’t perform it, at all (in the worst scenarios). Many are the times, in which we forgot the Surah we recited in the immediate solat, which we just performed.

If you have experienced any of the above, and have realized it happening to you often, then, you have certainly asked yourself, in your conscious or subconscious mind, this question; Why do I find it difficult to pray?

‘Why do I find it difficult to pray?’ is a common reflective question, which every Muslim asks himself, especially those who are concerned about their religious and spiritual progress. But the truth is that, this question, besides being a subject of concern for the religion-conscious, it also demonstrates and proves one of the greatness of Allah, s.w.t. in His creatures, as well as it proves the Prophecy of our beloved Prophet, Muhammad, s.a.w. and it also proves that the Qur’an is a book of Allah, s.w.t.

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