How to tell your friends about Salah

Mahum: Studying when adhan is called, closes pen and responds to the call of adhan, flips through the pages of the notebook in front of her and sighs.
Small Shaytan: "You are going for Salah? You can’t be serious! Did you forget about your final exams tomorrow? You need good grades to get into university. No one likes a dummy! There is still time to pray later, you have a genuine excuse. Just finish the fourth chapter, then you can pray?"
Mahum: "I seek refuge in Allah from shaytan"
Small Shaytan: hisses – "You are driving me crazy, adhan just finished, its still too early to pray. You better get most of your time, study a couple more pages, that will help you with your exam."
Mahum: "I seek refuge in Allah from Shaytan."


Big shaytan: calls small Shaytan – "You loser, he is escaping from you. Your exam trick is not working!"
Small shaytan: panics – "What can I do? He believes firmly in Allah, he is determined to pray."
Big shaytan: "You fool, go catch him quickly, remind him of an answer. Hurry up!"


Mahum: approaches little sister playing a computer game - "come little sister, its time to pray."
Amna: groans – "not now, I just started this game, five more minutes."
Mahum: "my dear, the most beloved deed to Allah is salah offered at its fixed time."
Amna: "okay, okay, you go ahead and get started, I will join you in a bit."
 Mahum: "Salah differentiates a Muslim from a non-Muslim, it is the barrier between belief and disbelief. Please guard your salah, the first question Allah will ask you is if you prayed or not. What is the purpose of your life?"
Amna: "To worship Allah."

Mahum: "Look at how Allah created us from single drop of sticky substance. How He proportioned our bones and balanced our features. He gave us a shape and a form. Eyes, ears and heart. We owe our health, our wealth, our everything to Him. Look how Allah created the earth submissive for us. He gives us to eat and drink from the earth. He cures us, protects us. He takes such good care of us. Look at the sky. How beautifully it covers the earth. The sun and the moon give us light, heat and tell us time."
Amna: "SubhanAllah! I was so lost in the game, I completely forgot these things. Allah is so Blessed, so Holy and Magnificient. He deserves to be worshiped. He is worthy of worship. I will never delay my salah again inshaAllah. JazakAllahu khairan for reminding me."

Mahum: "Waiiyakum ☺ Goes to the kitchen and addresses mama - Come mama, let us pray in the congregation together, we will get twenty-seven times more reward inshaAllah."
Mama: "No beta, the food is on the stove, I cannot leave it. You and your little sister go ahead and pray."
Mahum: "The food can wait mama, there is no purpose, no goal more dignified, more holy and sacred than worshiping Allah."
Mama: Smiles – "come, let’s pray together. So what else did you learn at Al Fawz Academy?"
Mahum: "So many things mama, alhamdulilah so many things" ☺