Worship

Allah commands the believers to establish prayer and guard it, for prayer is an obligation at fixed times.

The Quran states that prayer is an obligation prescribed for the believers at fixed times, and commands that all prayers be guarded, especially the middle prayer.

The Quran commands the believers to hasten to the remembrance of Allah and leave off trade when called to the Friday prayer, then to disperse and seek Allah's bounty once the prayer is over.

Allah commands the Prophet to rise for part of the night in tahajjud as an additional act of worship and to recite the Quran slowly, since rising at night leaves a deeper mark on the heart, and then eases the duty to reciting what is easy.

The Quran warns those who are heedless of their prayer, waste it and follow their desires, and names failure to pray as a reason people enter Hell.

Allah commands wudu before prayer, a full bath for one in a state of major impurity, and tayammum with clean earth for the sick, the traveller, or one who finds no water, and forbids approaching prayer while intoxicated or impure.

Allah prescribes fasting for the believers as He prescribed it for those before them, so that they may be mindful of Him: the fast of Ramadan, the month in which the Quran was sent down.

Allah sent down the Quran on the Night of Decree (laylat al-qadr), a blessed night in the month of Ramadan.

Allah repeatedly commands the giving of zakat together with establishing prayer, and the same command was given to the Children of Israel and the earlier prophets.

Allah commands spending from what He has provided before a day comes with no trade, and promises a multiplied reward and replacement to those who spend, like a grain that grows seven hundred grains.

Allah makes pilgrimage to the House an obligation for those able to make the journey, commanded Ibrahim to call people to Hajj, and commands completing Hajj and Umrah for Allah.

Allah ordained the sacrifice for every community so that they mention His name over the livestock He provided, and commanded the Prophet to pray and sacrifice for Him alone.

Allah commands His servants to call upon Him and promises to answer, for He is near and responds to the one in distress.

Allah commands the believers to remember Him often, to glorify Him morning and evening, and to remember Him after prayer, in battle and during the Hajj, and He promises to remember those who remember Him.

Allah commands the believers to repent sincerely and to ask Him for forgiveness, just as the prophets called their peoples to seek forgiveness and themselves turned to Him in repentance.

The Quran states that jinn and humankind were created to worship Allah, and repeatedly commands people to worship Allah alone without associating anything with Him.

Mosques belong to Allah, places He has ordered to be honoured and His name remembered in, and those fit to maintain them are the ones who believe, pray and pay zakat.

Allah commands calling people to His way with wisdom, good instruction and the best manner of argument, and says that none is better in speech than one who calls to Allah.

Allah rebukes those who refuse to emigrate from a land of disbelief where they cannot practise their faith, except the truly helpless, and promises those who emigrate in His way a spacious refuge, good provision, forgiveness and a greater reward in the Hereafter.