Worthless Acts of Worship

عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ كَمْ مِنْ صَائِمٍ لَيْسَ لَهُ مِنْ صِيَامِهِ إِلَّا الْجُوعُ وَكَمْ مِنْ قَائِمٍ لَيْسَ لَهُ مِنْ قِيَامِهِ إِلَّا السَّهَرُ

It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “There are people who fast and get nothing from their fast except hunger, and there are those who pray (at night) and get nothing from their prayer but a sleepless night.”

Narrated in Sunan Ibn Majah, Book 7, Hadith 1690

Grade: Hasan (sound)

Translation adapted from sunnah.com

Lessons:

1. Fasting and prayer are forms of worship that draw servants closer to Allah. 

2. They should be performed thoroughly and with sincerity.

 

3. Imperfection and insincerity will cause fasting to be nothing but hunger and thirst and prayer to be nothing but tiredness.

May these acts of worship be performed in the best way possible and with utmost sincerity.