Hurry sickness and Islam ( part 3 )

Apart from stressing human to focus the hereafter instead of being deluded with the current life, there are a few religious practices Islam could be the best cure for the hurry sickness problem. The most prominent is solah that performed by Muslim five time daily.

 

According to Islam, Solah is considered to be the pillars of the religion. In other words, those who are performing it seem to build their religion while those who are ignoring seem to destroy the religion. In fact, solah is not just a physical ritual but its main function is to connect between human and his creator. Moreover, it is time for humans to be grateful for the God’s blessing and to reflect if they have breached the lord’s  commands. 

In terms of Hurry sickness, solah has ‘disturbed’ the human’s desire since they must pray five times daily. As a result, it is enough to slow down them from pursuing the unstopped world demand.

At the same time, focusing on solah implementation, we can see there are a few elements of this worship avoid people from being chronic rush as follow:-

1. Muslims need to perform their solah with the high concentration ( khusyuk ) as they must aware that it is the communication process with their God.

2. During solah, Muslims recite the versus of Quran, zikr or doa. It is a situation that they reflect themselves and forget their worldly businesses and duties.

3. One of the main rules in Solah is to be calm ( toma’ninah ) as they have not to onrush in their movement. It was reported that prophet SAW asked one of his companion to repeat again his solah after he did it hastily.

4. After the solah, it is encouraged for Muslims to recite zikr and doa in a couple of minutes instead of go out.

5. Meanwhile, even it is necessary to Muslim to do their solah in group ( Jemaah ), ( some scholars say it is obligation ), but if they are late to join it, they have to not rush.

Thus, if the worship needs to perform calmly even it is the God demand, then why should we have to be hurry in pursuing the world demand.