Prophet Muhammad ﷺ on Religion

"The first to be summoned to Paradise on the Day of Resurrection will be those who praise God in prosperity and adversity."

"The name of one who forsakes his prayer intentionally is written upon The door of Hell from which he shall enter."

"Righteousness is good morality, and wrongdoing is that which wavers in your soul and which you dislike people finding out about."

"One who adheres to the five prayers diligently, they shall be a means of illumination and salvation for him on the Day of Judgment."

"A Muslim asked: "Oh Apostle of God, who are your kin whom you have ordered us to obey?" He replied, "Ali , Fatimah , and her two sons."

"The position of prayers with respect to religion is similar to that of the head with respect to the body."

"One who considers the prayers to be insignificant and trivial is not from me. By Allah! He shall never come close to me at the pool of Kauthar."

"He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise."

"The prayer is one of the dictates of religion, in it lies the pleasure of the Lord, the Mighty and the Glorious, and it is the conduct of the Prophets."

"Do not abandon your prayers intentionally for surely the obligations of Allah and His Messenger cease to cover one who forsakes his prayers intentionally."

"For every thing there is a face and the face of your religion is prayers. So see to it that none from amongst you damages and disfigures the face of his religion."

"Whenever the time of each prayer arrives, an Angel announces to the people: Stand up and extinguish, with prayers, the fire which you have set alight for yourselves."

"O my uncle! by God if they put the sun in my right hand and the moon in my left on condition that I abandon this course, until God has made me victorious, or I perish therein, I would not abandon it."

"Abu Hurayra reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "A man follows the religion of his close friend, so each of you should be very careful about whom he takes as a close friend."

"Narrated 'Ali: When it was the day of the battle of Al-Ahzab , Allah's Apostle said, "O Allah! Fill their houses and graves with fire as they busied us so much that we did not perform the prayer till the sun set."

"Religion is very easy and whoever overburdens himself in his religion will not be able to continue in that way. So you should not be extremists, but try to be near to perfection and receive the good tidings that you will be rewarded."

"The first thing that Allah made obligatory upon my Ummah was the five prayers; and the first thing from their acts of worship that shall be taken up will be the five prayers; and the first thing that they will be questioned about will be the five prayers."

"Once Allah's Apostle went out to the Muslims of Eid al-Adha or Al-Fitr prayer. Then he passed by the women and said, "O women! Give alms, as I have seen that the majority of the dwellers of Hell-fire were you ." They asked, "Why is it so, O Allah's Apostle ?" He replied, "You curse frequently and are ungrateful to your husbands. I have not seen anyone more deficient in intelligence and religion than you. A cautious sensible man could be led astray by some of you." The women asked, "O Allah's Apostle! What is deficient in our intelligence and religion?" He said, "Is not the evidence of two women equal to the witness of one man?" They replied in the affirmative. He said, "This is the deficiency in her intelligence. Isn't it true that a woman can neither pray nor fast during her menses?" The women replied in the affirmative. He said, "This is the deficiency in her religion."

"O People, verily your blood, your property and your honour are sacred and inviolable until you appear before your Lord, as the sacred inviolability of this day of yours, this month of yours and this very town . Verily you will soon meet your Lord and you will be held answerable for your actions."

"Narrated Ikrima: Ali burnt some people and this news reached Ibn 'Abbas, who said, "Had I been in his place I would not have burnt them, as the Prophet said, 'Don't punish with Allah's Punishment.' No doubt, I would have killed them, for the Prophet said, 'If somebody discards his religion, kill him.'"

"Abu Hurayra reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Someone who strives on behalf of widows and the poor is like someone who fights in the way of Allah." I think that he also said, "And like someone who continually stands at night in prayer and like someone who continually fasts."

"Prayer is the pillar of your religion and one who intentionally forsakes his prayer has destroyed his religion. And one who does not guard the times of the prayers, shall be made to enter ‘Wayl’, which is a valley in Hell, as Allah, the Exalted, has said: "So woe to the praying ones, who are unmindful of their prayers."

": "We are‑neither Angels nor Prophets but of the indigent ones from the ummah of Muhammad ". They would then be asked: "How then did you achieve this lofty and honourable status?" They would reply: "We did not perform very many good deeds nor did we pass all the days in a state of fasting or all the nights in a state of worship but yes, we used to offer our prayers and whenever we used to hear the mention of Muhammad , tears would roll down our cheeks."

"By Him in Whose Hand my soul is I was about to order for collecting fire-wood and then order Someone to pronounce the Adhan for the prayer and then order someone to lead the prayer then I would go from behind and burn the houses of men who did not present themselves for the prayer. By Him, in Whose Hands my soul is, if anyone of them had known that he would get a bone covered with good meat or two pieces of meat present in between two ribs, he would have turned up for the 'Isha' prayer."

"Narrated Anas: The Prophet offered the Fajr Prayer near Khaibar when it was still dark and then said, "Allahu-Akbar! Khaibar is destroyed, for whenever we approach a nation , then evil will be the morning for those who have been warned." Then the inhabitants of Khaibar came out running on the roads. The Prophet had their warriors killed, their offspring and woman taken as captives. Safiya was amongst the captives, She first came in the share of Dahya Alkali but later on she belonged to the Prophet . The Prophet made her manumission as her 'Mahr'."