Is our ibaadah or worship in Ramadhaan
important to us? How many nafil do we perform? We
see how many people, who after having eaten sehri, go back to bed without
performing the Fajr Salaah. Many perform it, but not with
jamaat. Someone might think that we give for the food we
had eaten for sehri by not Ithanks
to Allah performing the most
important fardh or by not
performing it with jamaat.
Such a Salaah is not complete. Rasulullah
j said: “There is no Salaah for
those near the Musjid except in the
Musjid.” In the kitaab
‘Mazhaahir-e-Haq’ we find that there is no reward for Salaah, for people who do
not perform it with jamaat,
without any good reason or excuse.
Similarly, in many
cases at the time of
iftaar, Maghrib Salaah is missed
and many do not come to the Musjid. Some miss the takbeer at the
beginning or miss the first rakaat. Many people hurry to get over the Taraweeh
Salaah and even
perform the Esha
Salaah before the time
of Esha starts. (Some do not pay any attention to Salaah even in Ramadhaan).
That is
the condition of our fardh
Salaah in Ramadhaan. Whilst performing one
fardh of fasting,
three others are
destroyed. How often
do we see that even the time of Zuhr
Salaah passes by because we
are asleep, while the time of Asr goes by because we are too busy buying,
selling or cooking to prepare for iftaar. If such
is the case with
the faraaidh, then we
can imagine how much less
importance is given
to the nafil
actions. One finds
that because of
sleep, the times
of Salaatul Ishraaq
(after sunrise) and Salaatud
Dhuhaa (before noon) go by.
Then
what about Salaatul Awwabeen (just
after Maghrib)? Here we find
ourselves busy with
iftaar and when
thinking about Taraweeh
after Esha this Salaah too is neglected. Further we find that for
Salaatut Tahajjud the time
is the same as that
for sehri with the result
that this too goes by. One may make a thousand excuses for not finding time
for these nawaafil.
These are all
excuses for not performing
these Salaah.
