BismiLLAH ..
AlhamduliLLAH for the great and happy life ever after my marriage for the past 3 months . I learnt lot of things , learnt to appreciate all the people around me, also learnt to appreaciate lots of sincere love given from ALLAH through them all . I should strive more to show my many-thanks to ALLAH for a such meaningful life ever . The same thanks goes for you guys who are always kind enough to grant us do'a for our good and barakah life .
Talking about love , it is a common sense that when you love somebody or anything , you will tend to obey/do what ever your love want you to do and this is actually the power of love . And after coming with this fact, i believe that i may come out again with a conclusion that if we neglecting ALLAH's order , it means that we do not love ALLAH . Fair or not?
The most common worship which is wajib as a Muslim and i think a very simple but hard worship for those who dont have that sort of 'love' to ALLAH is Prayer (Arabic:Solat | Japanese:Reihai/Oinori | Malay:Sembahyang) . Is it really true that the lack of love sense to Creator or maybe awareness about the obligation of prayers lead us to simply skip prayers?
Lets dig it out .
Beyond hope and Fear .
Now we just wanna dig out on why Muslims are simply skipping their prayers .
Skipping Prayers is, alas, something common among many Muslims. The reason why many, many Muslims keep going back to Prayers, nonetheless, is their fear, and rightfully so, of Allah, Majestic in His praise. In its endless stations, faith is, at the outset, connected to fear; and this applies and is beneficial for someone without a firm ground in religion.
Imam Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali (may Allah be pleased with him) elucidates this matter by making a parallel between such a state and that of a child. This is how a child is taught not to touch fire. Or if the child does so and so, he or she will be punished, to properly learn the lesson.
In fact, as believers, the essence of faith should not be based solely on fear. It is a stage, an element, a function maybe central for many, including myself, in our path to Allah; seeing the nature of our egos, psyches, and worldliness. The human soul is created with basic fear and it should be dealt with and used to straighten it in order for one to traverse to Allah.
Having said that, still, hope should always outweigh fear. First, as Imam Al-Ghazali mentions, continuous dependence on fear undoubtedly leads to despair. At any stage, one should have a little more hope than fear.
 Works based on hope are so much better than ones based on fear. This is why traditional scholars of Islam say that throughout life, Muslims should not think that they are destined for salvation and Paradise; but when on the deathbed, Muslims should believe otherwise — Allah will be pleased and will accept them into Paradise.
Learning to love prayers
So , as a conclusion or maybe solution ; whether in the prescribed Prayers or other ones, deal with them as something you do with love, not fear, not just a fulfillment of a compulsion. Wear your best clothes, use incense in the room, perfect your ablution (wudu'), memorize all Prophetic invocations in the different parts of Prayers, pray in your favorite spot, take your time, do your post-Prayers invocations and supplications, and fully annihilate all worldly concerns in your presence before Allah Almighty; pray with all your heart.
The essence of our religion that is rightfully veiled from many is love; have not we listened to the hadith qudsi that says,
"There is nothing that My servant approaches Me with that is more loved by Me than what I made obligatory on him"
(Al-Bukhari).
Hope this entry will make us think on where we are as a person who is shouting that we love ALLAH but simply skipping his orders without any guilt . It is not ALLAH who need us but we are the one who actually need ALLAH . And please dont treat HIM as a policeman where you will just search for when you got problem/in need .
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Reference
Ihya' `Ulum Ad-Din (The Revival of Islamic Sciences) by Imam Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali (English Version)
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