SALAAT IS BETTER THAN SLEEP

The importance of Salaat in Islam can never be over-emphasised. We have learnt from the Hadith of Rasulullah (Sallallaahu Alayhi Wasallam) that the similitude of Salaat in the life of a Muslim is like that of the head in the human body. Just as there is no life without the head, there is no Islam without Salaat.

O Muslim Brother: Consider these virtues of Fajr in the Masjid.

	Performing Fajr on its time with Jamaat is a quality of a Mumin.
	Performing Fajr on its time with Jamaat and Esha as well equals the Ibadat (worship) of the whole night.
	He who performs his Fajr with Jamaat is in the protection of Allah.
	There are glad tidings of perfect and complete Nur (celestial light)for him on the day of Qiyamah.
	He who awakens from his sleep and makes the Zikr of Allah, performs wudhu and performs his Fajr Salaat with Jamaat in the Masjid awakens fresh and healthy and if not, he awakens evil and lazy.
	If he performs his Fajr with Jamaat he acquires multiple rewards, his rank is elevated and sins forgiven.
	To perform Fajr on its time with Jamaat in the Masjid is a cause of entry into jannah and protection from the fire.
	The malaa-eekah are present in the salaat of Fajr and Asr with mercy and blessings.
	He who performs Fajr and Asr on time with Jamaat, will enter Jannah.
	He who performs his Salaat before the rising of the sun (Fajr) and before its setting (Asr) will never enter the fire.
	The angels of the night and day that are appointed over a person alternate. They gather during the Fajr and Asr Salaat. Thereafter those angels that spent their night with a person ascend (the skies) and their Rabb asks them (although He is most knowledgeable). "How did you leave My servants?" They will reply: "We left them while they were performing Salaat and we came to them while they were performing Salaat."

The harms of not performing Fajr in the Masjid with Jamaat

	It is a reported quality of a hypocrite (munafiq).
	A loss of rewards and thawaabs result by not performing Fajr with Jamaat in the Masjid.
	A person who sleeps until sunrise and did not perform his Fajr in the Masjid awakes evil and lazy.
	A person is deprived of the benefits of good health which are acquired when awakening and performing Fajr with Jamaat in the Masjid.
	A person is deprived of the obedience to Allah.
	Rasulullah (Sallallaahu Alayhi Wasallam) said with regard to a man who slept until the sun rose, "He is a person in whose ears shaytaan has urinated."

Factors that will assist in performing Fajr

Realise the greatness of Allah and His commandments and fear His punishment in the hereafter and in this