نماز

It is narrated from Hazrat Jābir (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Between a servant and disbelief there is only the distance of abandoning prayer." (Muslim)

After belief in Allah and His Messenger ﷺ and bearing witness to His oneness and to prophethood, the first and greatest obligation in Islam is prayer. Prayer is the special worship of Allah; it is the foundation and pillar of Islam, a bond established between a servant and his Lord. Offered with full attention, it purifies the heart, sins fall away, and love of goodness and the fear of God are born within. In short, after the kalimah, prayer is the foundation of Islam, and abandoning it brings a person to the very brink of disbelief. Each of us should reflect: if we do not form the habit of praying properly and regularly, what will become of our end?