Tom Facchine – The Wisdom In Prayer – Ramadan Series

			The first pillar after the testimony of faith in Islam is the prayer of Salah, the ritual prayer.
And there's tremendous, tremendous wisdom in the ritual prayer, and how it has been obligated upon
us how it's been constructed. What's it made of, part of the wisdom is that the prayer, the ritual
prayer, the Salah, on the Mars is perfectly balanced in two ways. One of those ways, it's balanced
between the physical and the spiritual, right, you have different positions, you have standing,
		

			you have bowing, you have kneeling, getting down on your forehead, prostrating sitting, these types
of motions and postures, and they all have significance to them. When you're standing, it's as if
you're standing in front of Allah subhanaw taala, every single one of us is going to have to stand
in front of our Creator on the Day of Judgment, for reckoning, we're going to be held account for
what we did.
		

			And so five times a day, at least, every single one of us reenacts, that thing that's inevitably
coming to us, we stand in front of our Creator, and then the battling and the frustration that we
undergo, we demonstrate our humility, we demonstrate our complete poverty in front of Allah subhanaw
taala, our entire desperate need for Him for guidance for success for everything. Of course, the
prayer is not just motions, though the motions have a lot of wisdom in them. The prayer is also
spiritual, because somebody who they're going through the motions literally, and they don't have
anything going on in their heart. They're not spiritually affected by that prayer, that person is
		

			not actually praying, the prophet will have a site set up, he told us that there's people that when
they leave their prayer, some of them took a certain portion of their prayer, they're rewarded for a
certain portion of the prayer, and others a smaller portion, and then others a smaller portion. And
so it all depends on what's going on. On the inside, the person who's locked in who's focused, who
stands in reverence and awe in their prayer, that person takes full credit, they get full benefit,
the person who's distracted and who doesn't really have their heart in it. That person takes away
far, far less. Another condition of the prayer is that it'd be performed at the proper time, the
		

			times for the prayer, as we know, they're tied to the sun. And there's tremendous wisdom in the way
in which the prayers order our day, the way that the human brain works, we tend to have a stronger
reinforcement with things that are done more frequently in short bursts, then something that's done
infrequently in longer durations. And that's exactly part of the wisdom of the prayer. We have short
little bursts, 1015 minutes here, 1015 minutes there, five times a day, more frequently, less
duration, so that it should do work on us and it's going to bring us to obedience, it's going to
bring us to telkwa it's going to bring us to piety and bring us to righteousness. So lost pounds.
		

			Allah has wisdom in everything that he does. So think about what it shows about us and what it shows
about our love for our Creator. That we would stop what we're doing five times a day time when you
could have been studying time when you could have been working time when you could have been making
money and you're connecting, you're taking time to connect with Allah subhanaw taala there's wisdom
and how the prayer is constructed.