The Five Daily Prayers: A Focus Exercise

Muslims pray five time a day and present themselves before Allah. However, how often do we actually present ourselves mentally? If we realize that mental focus is an important part of prayer, we can get a lot more out of our prayer.

We need to realize that anything we do, we are actually exercising that thing. So if we consistently do anything, we develop a good routine for it and become better and better at it. So if we start focusing on Allah during our prayers and concentrate solely on presenting ourselves before Him, our mental focus and the ability to concentrate on one particular task should improve. Therefore, our five daily prayers give us five chances to improve our mental focus on one particular assignment. In this day and age, where the internet and social media has taken over our lives, the ability to focus on one particular task has become extremely essential. We are constatly distracted by our phones, laptops, the notifications, YouTube etc. etc. and the list goes on. The prayer allows us to focus on one thing only and this gives our mentality an exercise of focus and attention.

That being said, prayer should not be prayed with the intention to achieve the advantages of a mental exercise, however I did like to point at this aspect of prayer since this may allow us to begin focusing in our prayers and help us avoid stray thoughts during the prayer. This will not only improve our relationship will Allah, but hopefully it will help us focus in tasks outside the prayer as well.

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