I was having a conversation with a brother, and subhanallah he reminded me a few things which sort of inspired this blog.

Have you ever been to a masjid for Maghrib or Isha or whatever, and right after the prayer, a few cliques starting forming. A bunch of brothers gather here, and they start talking and laughing, another bunch gather over there, and a buzz starts. It can very well be that they’ll have some meaningful conversation that you wouldn’t want to miss.

Thing is, we don’t often think that we can have a much more meaningful conversation with Allah - through our prayer. By making superogatory prayers, we are effectively holding a conversation with Allah - speaking to Him, asking Him, turning to Him. Moreover, a conversation requires participation from more than one party, or else it would be a soliloquy, or a monologue. The interesting thing about that is that when we recite the Qur’an - this is Allah’s covenant with mankind, the Uncreated Speech of Allah. Subhanallah, our prayer is our talking to Allah, and the Qur’an is Allah’s Speech to us.

So think about it next time you want to have a conversation with someone after Salaah - wouldn’t you rather have a conversation with the Lord of Mankind?

Many of us have jobs, which may pay something like $9.00 an hour for example (i’m talking to students here… heh). Now, when you are getting payed at $9.00 an hour, you are basically making an agreement with your employer that your hour is worth nine dollars. That would mean (by simple mathematics) that every minute of yours is worth exactly 15 cents.

Now, if you are unable to perform two units of superogatory prayer, which may only take perhaps 3 minutes, you’re effectively saying that you basically value those 45 cents more than you value the salah.

Think about it.