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Hazrat Shaikh Moulana Muhammad Zakariyya (rahmatullahi ‘alaih) mentioned the following in Fazaail-e-Aa’maal under the commentary of the hadeeth of Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam), “The person who has missed a single salaah is like the one who has lost all his family and wealth.”:

Generally, salaah is missed when a person is engaged in seeing to the needs of his family or he is preoccupied in the pursuit of earning wealth. In this hadeeth, Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) explains that the loss sustained in missing a single salaah is as great as losing one’s entire family and wealth and being left all by oneself. In other words, if we miss a single salaah, then we should feel that amount of grief which is experienced by the person who loses his entire family and wealth.

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