✦⋆· said, "Everything has a face, and the face of your religion is the prayer."

● "He whose prayer does not prevent him from indecencies and wrong only gets further and further away from Allah."

● "It only takes for a Muslim to deliberately abandon the performance of the daily obligatory prayer or to not perform it out of carelessness, for him to become an infidel (kafir)."

● The Prophet (saw), when he was asked about humbleness in prayer, said, "It is to abase oneself in the prayer, and for the servant to come to his Lord wholeheartedly."

● "The prayer of one who does not humble himself in his prayer does not count."

● "As long as you are praying, [know that] verily you are knocking at the door of the Almighty King, and the King's door opens for whoever knocks persistently thereat."

● The Prophet (saw) said with regards to a man who prays in spite of committing sins, "Verily his prayer will prevent him [from them] some day or other, and then he will soon repent."

● "Verily the pillar of religion is the prayer. It is the first thing to be considered from amongst the deeds of man, so if his prayer is valid, the rest of his deeds will be considered, and if his prayer is void, then the rest of his deeds will not be taken into consideration."

● "Whoever performs his prayer with full knowledge of the right due to it is forgiven."

● "Allah, Exalted be His praise, has made prayer the light of my eyes, and has made prayer as beloved to me as food is to a hungry man, and water to a thirsty man. The hungry man, however, is satiated when he eats, and the thirsty man is quenched when he drinks, but I can never be sated by my prayer."

● "Prayer elicits the descent of divine mercy."

● "If you were to pray so much that you became [as thin as strings], and fasted so much that you [bent over] as arches, Allah would not accept any of it unless it was accompanied by piety."

● "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]."

● "The one who is deliberately aware of who is on his left and who is on his right is not counted as having prayed."

● "The prayer of one who does not complete the bowing and prostration is not counted."

● "Allah does not accept the prayer of the servant whose heart is not present alongside his body."

● "Two simple units of prayer performed with contemplation are better than standing the whole night in prayer."

● "Verily the servant performs a prayer where neither a sixth nor a tenth of it may be accepted. Verily only that part of his prayer is accepted from him wherein he was fully conscious."

● "Whoever backbites a Muslim man or woman, Allah, most High, neither accepts his prayer nor his fasting for forty days until his victim has forgiven him."

● "Verily the prayer of one who drinks alcohol is not counted for forty days."

● "Shaytan is afraid of a Muslim who always does his obligatory prayers on time. But the moment, he fails to do so, Shaytan will dare & try to make him commit major sins.

✦⋆· "Allah made the prayer incumbent in order to eliminate one's pride."

✦⋆· narrated, "The Prophet (saw) never put anything before his prayer, neither his dinner nor anything else. When the time for prayer would set in, it was as if he knew neither family nor close friend."

● "Daily prayers are the best medium through which one can Seek the nearness to Allah."

● "Man should be humble in his prayer, for verily he whose heart is humble before Allah, Mighty and Exalted, his limbs will humble themselves too and will not fidget around."

● "Prayer is the sacrificial offering of every pious one."

● "When a man stands to pray, Iblis [Shaytan] approaches and looks at him with jealousy because of the mercy of Allah that he can see covering him."

● "If the praying one knew about the Sublimity of Allah covering him, he would never wish to raise his head up from prostration."

● "Look carefully at what [attire] you pray in. If it is not among that which is fitting or permissible for it, then it is not accepted."

● 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."

● "When sleep overcomes you while you are in your prayer, then break your prayer and go to sleep, for verily [in that state] you do not know if you are praying for or against yourself!"

● when he was asked about the condition for the acceptance of the prayer, replied, "Our guardianship and disassociation from our enemies."

● said, "Only that part of your prayer in which you engaged with your full attention is accepted. So if one is inattentive in all of it or careless in his performance of it, that same prayer is crumpled up and thrown back at his face."

✦⋆· "Prayer is the pillar of religion and its likeness is as the likeness of the pillar of a tent. If the pillar is stably fixed, the pegs and the ropes remain stable, but if the pillar inclines and breaks, neither peg nor rope remains fixed."

● "The first thing that the servant will have to account for is his prayer - if accepted, all else will be accepted."

● "Know that the earliest time is always the best, so hasten to perform good whenever you can. The most beloved acts in the eyes of Allah, Mighty and Exalted, are those that the servant performs regularly, even though they be few in number."

● "Do not stand for prayer lazily, drowsily or sluggishly for verily these are from among the disturbances brought about by hypocrisy, and verily Allah has prohibited the believers from standing for prayer while they are intoxicated, which means when intoxicated by sleep."

✦⋆· "The most beloved of all acts to Allah, Mighty and Exalted, is the prayer, and it is the legacy of the Prophets."

● "Whoever performs a two unit prayer fully knowing what he is saying in it, gets up from it with not a single sin left [unforgiven] between him and Allah."

● "If there was to be a river outside one's house into which he bathed five times a day, would there remain any dirt on his body? Similarly the prayer is the river which purifies [one's soul] - every time one performs a prayer it acts as atonement for one's sins, except for that sin which takes him and keeps away from his faith."

● Imam Sadiq (as) when asked about the best and most beloved deed to Allah, replied, "I do not know anything after true knowledge [of Allah] to be better than this prayer. Do you not see that the righteous servant Isa son of Maryam (sa) even said, '...and he has enjoined me to [establish] the prayer."

● "Whoever Allah accepts even one prayer from, He will not chastise, and whoever He accepts even one good deed from He will not chastise."

● "The one who does not pay the alms-tax is not considered as having prayed."

● "The virtue of the earliest opportunity over the latest is as the virtue of the Hereafter over this world's life."

● Imam Sadiq (as) was once asked why the one who abandons the prayer is considered an infidel and not the fornicator, to which he replied, "Because the fornicator and other [such sinners] commits the sin out of a desire that overcomes him, whereas the one who abandons the prayer only does so because he does not take it seriously, deeming it insignificant."

● "Allah does not accept a single prayer from one who looks at his parents loathingly, even if they oppress him."

● At the time of one's death, the Angel of death will make Shaytan go away from those who always did their prayers on time. And will help them with declaring, there is no God but Allah and Prophet (saw) is his Messenger at that big moment."

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Al-Qazzaz narrated, "Imam Reza (as) went out to await the arrival of some people who were coming to visit him when the time for prayer set in. He went towards a nearby fort and took shade under a rock, saying, 'Announce the call for prayer.' I replied, 'Why don't we wait for our companions to catch up with us?' He replied, 'May Allah forgive you. Do not ever delay the prayer from the earliest moment of its onset to the latest without a good excuse. You must always pray at the earliest time', so I announced the call for prayer and we prayed."

It is narrated that when Imam Ali (as) used to stand for prayer, he would be like a fixed structure or a straight pillar, not moving at all, and sometimes when he would bow or prostrate, [he would be so still that] a bird would perch itself on him. Nobody was ever able to match the prayer of the Prophet (saw) apart from Ali b. Abi Talib and Imam Zayn al-Abidin] (as)."

It is narrated that when Imam Hassan Mujtaba (as) used to perform his ablution the colour of his face would change and his joints would tremble. When he was asked about this once, he replied, "It is only fitting for one who stands before the Lord of the Throne that his face should change colour and his joints should tremble."

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said, "I heard from Prophet Muhammad (saw), whoever doesn't do their daily prayers out of ignorance and can't remember how many prayers they missed, should perform 50 rakat on Monday night. Then fast on Monday and during noon, perform 50 rakat (25 prayers of 2 rakat). Once you finish, say: 'Astaghafirullahi Rabbi Wa Atubu Ilayhi.' (Verily, I seek the forgiveness of Allah, who is my Lord and Sustainer, and I turn to Him in repentance.) Doing this counts as 100 years of missed prayers. But if they know how many prayers they've missed. Then they must perform all of them."

: The information above does not mean that all your missed prayers will be removed from your scroll of deeds. You must know, it gives you Hasanats of that many years of prayers but it's not going to replace them! You should try and perform your missed prayers as much as you can.