The happiness of a person was tremendous when a well-known company accepted him to work for it. He was over the moon as he was the only accepted candidate. He signed the contract that implies that he should agree on respecting the company working hours, delivering weekly reports about his work and activities, and accepting to be punished for any delinquency.

Soon later, he met his manager and said to him, "From tomorrow onwards, I will not come in time. And I will not deliver my weekly reports in time either; instead they will be delayed for a while. In spite of all that, I will not allow you to punish me, and you don't have the right to kick me out from work."

If we imagine such a situation, we will laugh at the behaviour of such a person. No-one will see him but an insane and a foolish person. How could someone want to take his rights whereas he is not committed to his own obligations?!

So, why most of us do the same strange action or even worse? (As we commit a worse sin against the Law of Allah the Almighty.) How can a sane person allow himself to enjoy all Allah's graces: such as food, drink, clothes and life pleasures; whereas he doesn't offer Allah the simplest obligatory He obligates him to do, viz. Praying?! And even if he prays, then he doesn't pray on time or he prays like a rooster (i.e. he prays too hastily and carelessly). He neither complies with his praying nor apprehends what he says.

According to a web site visitors survey in the Arabic section of IslamWay that included more than 4000 persons:
14% of them never pray Fajr on its time
16% of them rarely pray Fajr on its time
33% of them often pray Fajr on its time
35% of them always pray Fajr on its time

Subhan Allah!! (*) We are not talking about jurisprudence about which scholars disagreed or even a Sunnah that one has a choice to do or not. We are talking about ABC Islam. We are talking about praying that Allah Almighty obligates on all Muslims – whatever their conditions are.

When Allah the Almighty ordered Muslims to pray He warned those who delay the prayer after its designated time, saying: "So woe to the worshippers who are neglectful of their prayers" [Surat Al-ma'oon 107:4-5]. The interpreters say that what is meant by this verse is delaying prayer after its designated time. They also say: "woe" is a very deep sheer black valley in Hell. Don't we believe in Allah's Words?

Many of us nowadays neglect Fajr prayer as if it was not there. That's why we pray it much later than its time. In addition, some pray it immediately before the Noon prayer. Others may never pray it even for compensation (Qadha). So why all this laziness against what Allah the Almighty deserves? Don't we proclaim that we love Allah the Almighty more than anything else? Once one of us loves someone a true love, he will be willing to meet him. He may keep thinking of him most of the time. Once he has a date with him, he cannot sleep until he meets the one he loves. So, do we really love Allah? Do we really respect His Orders? Are we willing to meet Him?

Let's imagine that a multi-millionaire offered one of his employees R1000 every day, just on one condition, viz. the employee must call daily at his employer's house in the morning as to wake him up then leave. Such a simple task may take the employee 10 minutes only. This marvellously generous offer would be valid as long as the employee keeps awaking his employer regularly. On the other hand, this offer will be cancelled permanently, and the employee will be asked to return all the money he received, if he neglects to awake his employer once without an excuse.

So, if you, my Muslim brother & sister, were that employee, would you neglect to call at your employer's house? Won't you carefully intend to wake up daily to get the one thousand? Won't you – once you failed one morning – try with all means to prove that you were truly unable to wake up?

The Prophet (pbuh) said: "There is no prayer more difficult to attend for hypocrites than Fajr and Esha. And if they knew what's in them (i.e. the good reward – Thawaab) they would attend them even if they had to come crawling." (Narrated by Bukhari)

Allah Almighty mentions that He disavows whosoever neglects the obligatory Salaah. Besides, The Prophet (pbuh) said: "Do not ever leave Salaah on purpose because whoever does so then he is disowned by Allah and His Messenger." (Narrated by Imam Ahmad) So do you like O Muslim brother and sister, for the closest one to you to disown you? So how do you neglect the Salaah and cause Allah to disown you?

Well….now what have I to do? Every one of us should set an alarm clock to wake us for Fajr Salaah daily. We should give Salaah its status in our lives, and we should discipline our jobs according to the Salaah regular times. (Unfortunately, we simply do the opposite!)

We should sleep early and wake up for Fajr and then leave for work. Soon after Fajr, Allah distributes people's sustenance (Arzaq). Each one of us should seek a good companionship that would call to wake him at Fajr Salaah. Moreover, they would help one another to adhere to such a good deed.

We should keep on saying our nightly Dua (that we say just after before going to sleep) asking Allah to help us do our Salaah. To feel guilty if we missed a single obligatory Salaah. Furthermore, we should vow never to repeat this big sin.