Yasmin Mogahed – Let your prayers be the light that illuminates your path towards spiritual fulfillment & inner peace

			When you talk about the soul, and when you talk about the heart, the heart and the soul have needs,
they have essential needs just like the body has needs. And one of the essential needs of the heart
and of the soul is to be to have oxygen to have food and water, just like the body needs food and
water. Just like the body needs oxygen, the heart and the soul need its oxygen to stay alive. And
the oxygen of the heart and the soul is the remembrance of Allah subhanaw taala that what that does,
it's literally food for the soul. You've heard this expression, but it's, it's literally feeds the
soul. And so one of the things that sometimes we do that starves us spiritually is that we we
		

			deprive our hearts and souls of oxygen, simple as that. And and what are some of the ways we do
that? We do that, number one, the most extreme way in which we deprive our hearts and souls of
spiritual oxygen is when we're not praying. When we don't pray, or we don't pray, as we're told to
pray five times a day. It's like depriving the heart of of its oxygen of the spiritual oxygen that
it needs to just be okay and stay alive.