Assaleamu Aleykum my brothers. In the past everything was more beautiful. Making Pray was extremely beautiful and enjoyable for me. It rests my soul, me. But something changed. I used to pray even Sunnah with pleasure. But now, I have been too lazy to pray even fardh. What should I do?
My advise for you is to stay strong and firm in preforming your fardh prayers. Eventhough you might not enjoy and take pleasure out of them as you used to, it's important that you don't give up all of your prayers.
Don't make it hard on yourself by expecting yourself to pray all of the fardh and sunnah prayers as you used to do. Take your time for at least the 5 fardh prayers first.
Make a lot of dhikr during the day, therefore it becomes easier for you to be concentrated in your prayer. If it's necessary try to take your time 5 or 10 minutes before prayer to reflect on your bond with Allah (swt).
Also Ive heard that usually when a person doesn't take pleasure from acts of worship, it's because there's something standing in the way of them to do so. For example a bad habbit or sin.
Try to reflect on yourself: what is it that makes you not take pleasure out of your prayer? Is it a certain sin that stands in the way? If so, try to cut it out of your life...
May Allah (swt) make you steadfast on His Path. May Allah (swt) let you experience the ultimate pleasure in prayer. Allahouma ameen!
Assaleamu Aleykum my brothers. In the past everything was more beautiful. Making Pray was extremely beautiful and enjoyable for me. It rests my soul, me. But something changed. I used to pray even Sunnah with pleasure. But now, I have been too lazy to pray even fardh. What should I do?
When we are shackled by our sins and our focus turns away from the Hereafter then Imaan will leave the heart like if you turn over a bottle of water and the water flows out.
Therefore eradicate the major sins from your life whatever they maybe and make firm conviction and intention to leave such sins. For we would never want to die whilst committing a major sin may Allah save us.
From time to time our focus turns away from the Hereafter and we get consumed into the daily grind of life, chasing money, promotion, career development etc all at the cost of maintaining our imaan and keeping ourain focus on the Hereafter. Therefore the only solution to this is to eradicate the love of the Dunya from the heart and make our main primary focus in life - the Hereafter and of the pleasure of Allah and meeting with him.
We must never sell the Hereafter for a cheap price - this temporary worldly life. However if we sell this life for the next then we gain both this life and the next!
Hasan Ali Basri (Ra) said:
"Sell this life for the next and you win both of them. Sell the next life for this and you lose both of them".
We chase after this life each day but what we don't realise is that if we sold this life for the next then we can gain both! Win win situation. But the other way around is only a lose lose situation.
try reading different surahs and not same one's again and again
and most important thing is, just to obey Allah no matter how you feel; most of life in mundane and we just have to 'do' whether we feel euphoria or not!
I would suggest doing dhikr (zikir in Turkish), as the more good deeds you do, the greater your iman becomes, and the better your iman becomes, the easier it becomes to perform salah. Also, make dua to Allah that this ends. And as others have mentioned, strive for the akhira and not the dunya, and keep that in mind, and spend a lot of time in the masjid.
Look at the positives is what I would say in your case.
The negatives is what Syaitaan does by his whispers. Moving away is when you start to fall victim to his persistence. Be aware that Syaitaan works in many ways and exhaustively. He works harder and trickier to divert people who believe in the truth. He distorts, twists, suggests, tempts, etc.
So really, be very aware that these are not your feelings, but planted feelings to lead you astray. Allah only knows, as people who know me through the ages, how I have struggled to keep my prayers regular. It has been a start stop affair for most parts of my life. How I knew it until adolescence set out, I could read the Quran and all the prayer parts and went though well over a decade of very rarely practicing indeed to the point in my thirties I didn't recognise the letters in the Quran anymore. Learning the prayer was filling up many empty spaces to parts I could still remember plus the handful of surahs.. I had to relearn again how to read the Quran.
Still I was struggling to maintain or even do my fardh. I don't know what it was. My mother in law, noticing this mini battle with self actually told me on day that she does dua for me to make my prayer (habit) stick. It was a combination of things for me that somehow made it all click together... Allahualem.
But first was the realisation that the 5 pillars is rather easy if you take a look at it individually. that is everything is only for a period. The shahada, a lifetime commitment. Once said and believed, is enough. In no order, the Hajj, once in a lifetime if able. Zakat, at least once a year and fasting, at least during the month of ramadan. The only daily 'ritual' we have are the 5 daily prayers. That is on the 'must do' list. That is the toughest. But do-able. Definitely so. It is just a matter of whether you really want to or not.
My honest answer to self was sometimes I really didn't want to do so. In fact it was quite often. And if I waited to some kind of Divine Inspiration to make me feel like doing it, then I will hardly ever do it. Allah does not need my prayer. I need to pray to Him!
Then one day I was stopped and told, to my face "If someone calls you in the morning and asks what are you doing, tell him you are waiting for Zuhr, and if they call you after lunch and asks you what you are doing tell him you are waiting for 'Asr. and it went on until the final, I am waiting for 'Isya. " So I listened to the whole thing and said "thank you. Bye bye" thinking to myself what was that about and why would I want to be telling people that, anyway? ....
But the thought eventually filtered out and reverberated itself with the other floating thoughts of the same nature and I found myself anticipating the next prayer rather than to be surprised by its arrival or passing... helps a lot and still does. Suddenly the feeling of laziness could be combatted. When the laziness is overwhelming, got to get up and do it anyway. So, the real test is at least managed.
The first question, whether it was the story that helped, or the prayer of my late mother in law, I think it was a bit of everything to push me over the edge to get that momentum going.
I do it. I try to complete the day with it all the fardh prayers performed, sometimes I make up for one or few I had missed and I often I remind myself a simple thing. I will meet Allah. I will be questioned on my prayers. How can I ever justify missing any? But in all honesty, I cannot answer on my own sincerity. I do find my prayers are quite often distracted. I try to concentrate and these distractions are (I believe), Syaitaan. I try push them aside and complete my prayers. At the very least, I cannot be put together with the categories of those that did not perform this obligatory act.
On your fardh I'd say, just do it. Remember that it is a lifetime commitment. As long as you shall live and physically and mentally able kind of thing. So, you will be going through all the ups and downs. At the end of the day after the lapse of time, were those days filled with 'ticked' boxes for the fardh or not.
The real plus point is that you have felt those uplifting moments. You just don't feel it now. Read the stories of the prophets again... that may help to get in the mood...
Assaleamu Aleykum my brothers. In the past everything was more beautiful. Making Pray was extremely beautiful and enjoyable for me. It rests my soul, me. But something changed. I used to pray even Sunnah with pleasure. But now, I have been too lazy to pray even fardh. What should I do?
I'm in a similar predicament brother. May Allah guide us ameen
Doing your fard salah, is that asking too much? Lets ask ourselves what are we doing. In the end, it is us who will gain and benefit. Constructive criticism should always be welcome, esp when we are lacking in deeni aspects.
May the Qur'an intercede for us and be a means of our Jannah. Ameen.
Assaleamu Aleykum my brothers. In the past everything was more beautiful. Making Pray was extremely beautiful and enjoyable for me. It rests my soul, me. But something changed. I used to pray even Sunnah with pleasure. But now, I have been too lazy to pray even fardh. What should I do?
Just recently started praying again..
Before this all i had was what people were writing infront of me.
..i have started praying again in the hope that i am no longer found to be behind them.
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