The fundamental point about Prayer is that it purifies the soul, refines the character, and keeps one who performs it from falsehood and all forbidden actions. It cleanses one of base and shameful acts. If we see someone who prays, yet at the same time unlawfully enriches himself with the possessions of others and spreads evil among men, and whose actions are incompatible with the noble precepts of the religion, who perhaps uses Prayer as a snare with which to capture the good opinion of people, behind which he conceals his many misdeeds, then the benefits which his Prayer should bring upon him and which should restrain him from doing evil will be canceled out.
If we see someone like this, we should know that his Prayer is rejected and futile. It will be rolled up like a bundle of worn-out clothes and thrown in his face whether he likes it or not. His Prayer will avail him nothing and will not draw him near to Allah. Rather, it will increase his distance from Him and incur more loss on himself, for the Prophet (peace be upon him) said, “He whose Prayer has not restrained him from evil and misdeeds has only increased his distance from Allah.” (At-Tabari)
Furthermore, the Shari`ah of Islam (Islamic Law) rejects the Prayer of one who does not persevere in it, who does not perform the ritual ablution properly, who does not perform it with humility, who does not bow the body, and who does not prostrate himself for an absence of concern for these matters indicates an absence of interest in them. If one does not pay attention to this important first principle, then why should one concern oneself with what follows it?
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The Shari`ah of Islam rejects the Prayer of
the one who does not persevere in it, who does not perform the ritual
ablution properly.
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