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Healthy Habit:

You may be thinking that I’m going to discuss about some exercises, eating diet food etc.  But No, I am going to let you all know How I keep maintain ‘prays’.  Being a Muslim I/we have to observe 5 essential (Fardh) prays in a day (24 hours).

I am not an orthodox (though I most of the time express to observe religious obligations ethics and norms as much as we can, at least to get adhered to our Allah).

Let’s take first essential prayer of Fajr.  This is very difficult for us almost all Muslims, in spite the Mozzen (caller) says in Adhan “Prayer is better than the sleep”, we keep sleeping, very few of us go to mosque to offer Salah (prayer). Anyway, I, for this prayer wake up these days at 4 a.m.  After having done some necessary washing I recite Holy Qura’a (sometime with understanding sometimes just recite, but take a cursory look at the translations too). Then I go down to mosque for fajr prayer with aggregation (Jama’at).

Second Prayer is Dohar time of which starts around 12:30 in summer, but because I am at that time at my work place so I go down at 1:00 p.m. (this is our lunch and pray break), and offer prayer in the mosque.

Third Prayer is Asr, time of which starts at 5:30 in summer, I offer this prayer on way back to home from work.

Forth Prayer is Maghrib it’s time starts just after sunset (around 7:17 pm in summer), For this prayer and for Last (5^th) Prayer Isha I some time go to mosque, or some time offer at home (alone), though if an essential prayer is offered alone it bears lesser blessings (sawab) than if offered in mosque with aggregation.

For every Prayer we have to have some ritual washings – Wadhoo (ablution). There is a saying that if a person lives near a river and he washes himself five times a day, will there be any dirt remain on his body? Of course NO.  In the same way if a person offers at least his/her essential prayers (with concentration to Allah), there will not be any worldly filth remain on his soul.  

So, isn’t this a healthy habit which I do have.  During all these prayers there always includes my one request to Allah, “May He Please give me Once In my life time just few seconds where there is NO WORLDLY THING BETWEEN me and HIM, just once!