Secrets of Prayer (1) Prayer Is Not a Burden — It’s a Gift

What if prayer wasn’t something you had to “get done”…
but a personal invitation from Allah, five times a day?

Prayer (Salah) is not meant to be a heavy obligation. It is meant to be:
• The comfort of the lovers of God
• The joy of believing hearts
• The garden of the worshippers

Yet many of us have lost this feeling. Prayer has slowly become a set of quick movements we rush through — just to check it off and return to our phones, work, and daily distractions.

The first step to transforming your prayer is simple but powerful:
Stop treating it like something you’re trying to finish.

Salah Is Not Just Movements — It’s a Divine Feast

Every bow. Every prostration. Every word of remembrance in prayer carries:
• A secret
• A spiritual sweetness
• A moment of closeness to Allah

Salah is like a banquet from the Most Merciful, and you are invited to attend it five times every single day.

But the one who walks in distracted and rushed will never taste the beauty of that feast.

This is why some people pray for years yet feel no real change in their lives.
They are performing prayer — but not truly establishing prayer as it was meant to be.

Heedlessness: The Drought of the Heart

Spiritual heedlessness is like a drought.

When the heart is deprived of remembrance and mindful prayer, it begins to dry out — just like land that no longer receives rain.

Slowly, the heart weakens.
It hardens.
It stops responding.

A heart disconnected from sincere prayer loses its softness, its light, and its ability to be moved by reminders.

A Painful Reflection

It has been said about earlier generations that if the righteous of the past saw the best of those after them, they would still be shocked by how little concern there was for the Hereafter.

So what would they say if they saw us today — constantly distracted, endlessly scrolling, even during moments meant for worship and connection with our Lord?

This isn’t meant to make us despair.
It’s meant to wake us up.

The Goal Is Not Guilt — It’s Awakening

The purpose of these reminders is not to make you feel hopeless.
It is to help you pause and ask yourself honestly:
• Am I present in my prayer — or just physically standing there?
• Do I rush to leave prayer, or do I feel reluctant for it to end?

Salah is not a test you hurry to complete.
It is a meeting of love between you and your Creator — repeated throughout your day.

And once the heart truly tastes that meeting,
it will never want to rush away again.