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1135 - المُحافَظَةُ عَلى‏ أوقاتِ الصَّلاةِ

1135. Observance of the Prescribed Timings of the Prayer

(فَوَيْلٌ لِلْمُصَلِّينَ * الَّذِينَ هُمْ عَنْ صَلاتِهِمْ ساهُونَ).1

“Woe to them who pray – those who are heedless of their prayers.”2

(وَالَّذِينَ هُمْ عَلَى صَلَواتِهِمْ يُحافِظُونَ * أُولئِكَ هُمُ الوارِثُونَ * الَّذِينَ يَرِثُونَ الْفِرْدَوْسَ هُمْ فِيهَا خَلِدُونَ).3

“…and who are mindful of their prayers. It is they who will be the inheritors, who will inherit Paradise: they will dwell therein forever.”4

3637.رسولُ اللَّهِ صلى اللَّه عليه وآله : حَسبُ الرَّجُلِ مِن دِينِهِ، كَثرَةُ مُحافَظَتِهِ على‏ إقامَةِ الصَّلَواتِ .5

3637.The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘The worth of a man with respect to his religion is measured by his diligence to keeping up his daily prayers [at their specific times].’6

3638.الإمامُ عليٌّ عليه السلام - مِن كتابِهِ لمحمّدِ بنِ أبي بكرٍ - : اِرتَقِبْ وَقتَ الصَّلاةِ فَصَلِّها لِوَقتِها، ولا تَعَجَّلْ بها قَبلَهُ لِفَرَاغٍ، ولا تُؤخِّرْها عَنهُ لِشُغلٍ .7

3638. Imam Ali (AS) wrote in a letter to Muhammad b. Abu Bakr, ‘Observe the timing of the prayer and perform it at its prescribed time, neither hastening to pray it earlier in order to be free of it, nor delaying it because of some work.’8

1.الماعون : ۴، ۵ .

2.Qur’an ۱۰۷:۴,۵

3.المؤمنون : ۹ - ۱۱ .

4.Qur’an ۲۳:۹,۱۰,۱۱

5.تنبيه الخواطر : ۲ / ۱۲۲ .

6.Tanbih al-Khawatir, v. ۲, p. ۱۲۲

7.بحار الأنوار :۸۳ / ۱۴ / ۲۵ .

8.Bihar al-Anwar, v. ۸۳, p. ۱۴, no. ۲۵

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