Steps to increasing our Imaan! Part - 4

Steps to increasing our Imaan!

2-PERFORM SALAH REGULARLY

Completing the five daily prayers, on time and according to the Sunnah, is an excellent way to increase our Iman. Not only are we performing an obligatory deed when praying, but by doing so we have a standing audience with the Creator of this world where we can ask for help and mercy. The effect of the salah on the human soul is cooling as Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam once said that it cooled his eyes.
The salah connects us with our Creator and, along with obedience to Allah, helps us to enjoin what is good and forbid what is evil.

Allah Almighty says in the Holy Qur’an:
"The believers are only those who, when Allah is mentioned, feel a fear in their hearts and when His Verses -this Qur’an- are recited unto them, they (i.e. the Verses) increase their Faith; and they put their trust in their Lord (Alone); Who perform salah and spend out of that We have provided them. It is they who are the believers in truth. For them are grades of dignity with their Lord, and Forgiveness and a generous provision (Paradise)”
[Al-Anfal: 2-4]

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah RAA Rasulullah sallallahu aleihi wasallam said: The similitude of five prayers is like an overflowing river passing by the gate of one of you in which he washes five times daily. Hasan said: No filthiness can remain on him.
[Sahih Muslim Book 4, Hadith 1411]

Narrated Abu Hurairah raddi Allah anhu that Rasualullah Sallallahu aleihi wasallam said, "Martyrs are those who die because of drowning, plague, an abdominal disease, or of being buried alive by a falling building." And then he added, "If the people knew the Reward for the Zuhr prayer in its early time, they would race for it. If they knew the reward for the 'Isha' and the Fajr prayers in congregation, they would join them even if they had to crawl. If they knew the reward for the first row, they would draw lots for it."
[Sahih Al-Bukhari Volume 1, Book 11, Hadith 688]

FOR THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T PRAY:
Informing us about the inhabitants of Hell, Allaah Sub'hanu wa Ta'ala says "The people in Hell will be asked What has caused you to enter Hell? They
will say: "We were not of those who used to offer their Salât (prayers). Nor did we feed the poor. And we used to talk falsehood (all that which Allaah hated) with vain-talkers. And we used to belie thc Day of Recompense. Until there came to us that which is certain (i.e., death). So no Intercession of intercessors will benefit them.
[Surah Al-Muddaththir, ayah 42-48]

Rasulullah sallallahu alehi wasallam said "The covenant between us and them is prayer, so if anyone abandons it he has become a disbeliever."
[Ahmad, Tirmidhee and Nasaa'ee]

In an other Hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu alehi wasallam said "What lies between a man and disbelief is the abandonment of prayer."
[Muslim, Abu Dawood and Nasaa'ee]