Why Neglecting Asr Prayer Voids Your Deeds
The Importance of Al-Salat Al-Wusta: The Asr Prayer and Its Critical Place in Islam
Summary
Sh. Ali Mashhour delivers a lecture on the importance of the Asr (afternoon) prayer, known as Al-Salat Al-Wusta (the middle prayer) as mentioned in the Quran. He discusses multiple hadiths emphasizing the critical nature of this prayer, including a narration from Anas ibn Malik about the Prophet Muhammad's practice of praying Asr while the sun was still high in the sky. Sh. Ali Mashhour presents hadiths from Ibn Umar and Buraidah ibn Al-Hasib that warn of severe consequences for neglecting the Asr prayer, stating that whoever misses it is as if they have lost their family and wealth, and that failing to pray it voids one's deeds.
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله والصلاه والسلام على رسول الله واشهد ان لا اله الا الله واشهد ان محمدا عبده ورسوله اللهم صل وسلم وبارك على نبينا محمد وعلى اله واصحابه اجمعين اما بعد كتاب الصلاه الوسطى الله سبحانه وتعالى ساز حافظوا على الصلوات والصلاه الوسطى العصر صلاه العصر صلاه العصر صلاه allصلاه العصر صلى الله عليه وسلم صلاه العصر عن انس رضي الله عنه ان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم كان يصلي العصر والشمس مرتفعه حيه فيذهب الذاهب الى العوالي فياتي العوالي والشمس مرتفعه والحديث متفق عليه والعوالي امكن في نواحي المدينه انس رضي الله عنه الله صلى الله عليه وسلم صلاه العصر howes would make the horon and would make صلاه all theirts of and come back and the time of is what this me would make as would as soon as the time would come in so early a person coulday some all the on the ed and come back and it is time for the sun is high in the sky this narration is inl having said that there is a great sin in a person neglecting his prayer until the time is over and this sin magnified person time this person in منته صلاه العصر عن ابن عمر رضي الله عنهما ان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول او قال الذي تفوته صلاه العصر صرف كانما وتر اهله وماله وعن بريده ابن الحصيب رضي الله عنه ان النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال من ترك صلاه العصر فقد حبط عمله والحديث عند البخاري ابن عمر الله صلى الله عليه وسلم صلاه العصر all من فاتته صلاه العصر فكانما وتر اهله وماله صلاه صلاه العصر allدهن الحصيبن الحصيب صلى الله عليه صلاه العصر de areified by of becomes void because fail to make this is صلى الله عليه وسلم صلاه العصر نسال الله سبحانه وتعالى ان يعلمنا ما ينفعنا وان ينفعنا بما علمنا وان يزيدنا علما والله اعلم وصلى الله وسلم على نبينا محمد.