Allah always listens to us when we pray. Daily prayer can bless you, your family, and those you pray for. It can also invite more peace into your life, help you learn more about God’s plan for you, and more. Allah answers our prayers in the form of thoughts, spiritual feelings, scripture, or even the actions of other people. God will help you understand why you are here and what you can do to return to live with Him after this life. Allah says:

أَقِمِ الصَّلَاةَ لِدُلُوكِ الشَّمْسِ إِلَىٰ غَسَقِ اللَّيْلِ وَقُرْآنَ الْفَجْرِ إِنَّ قُرْآنَ الْفَجْرِ كَانَ مَشْهُودًا

“Establish regular prayers – at the sun’s decline till the darkness of the night, and the morning prayer and reading: for the prayer and reading in the morning carry their testimony.” (Surah Al-Isra, 17:78)

Prayer is one of the leading pastimes in self-reflection and gratitude. The purpose of the prayer is not just to fulfil an empty ritual. For the prayer to be acceptable, it must be done with passion. A very important ingredient of the prayer is the state of calmness and tranquillity coupled with humility achieved by deep concentration. The prayer is relaxing and will help regain lost focus in life. The prayer is healing for the soul. Allah says:

إِنَّ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ وَأَقَامُوا الصَّلَاةَ وَآتَوُا الزَّكَاةَ لَهُمْ أَجْرُهُمْ عِندَ رَبِّهِمْ وَلَا خَوْفٌ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا هُمْ يَحْزَنُونَ

“Indeed, those who believe and do righteous deeds and establish prayer and give Zakah will have their reward with their Lord, and there will be no fear concerning them, nor will they grieve.” (Surah Al-Baqarah 2:277 )

We live in a pressure-filled world where we are constantly being rushed to take on responsibilities, succeed and be at the top of everything. Reflecting on our problems through prayer helps relieve the initial stress of the situation. Leaving our problems up to a higher being. While prayer also promotes hope in the future, faith is also what keeps a religious person-centred and strong.

Here are some ways prayer can improve our life, starting today:

1. Prayer gives you strength to avoid the temptation
2. Prayer helps us to open ourselves to forgiveness
3. Prayer helps to develop a relationship with God
4. Prayer makes our day more fruitful and blessed
5. Prayer strength to overcome major worries
6. Prayer reduces ego and promotes humility
7. Prayer invites the Holy Spirit into your life
8. Prayer helps to personal character growth
9. Prayer helps you find direction in your life
10. Prayer makes one improve selflessness
11. Prayer aligns your will with God’s will
12. Prayer can work miracles
13. Prayer provides answers
14. Prayer helps you be humbled
15. Prayer changes our overall attitude
16. Prayer helps regulate your heartbeat
17. Praying brings you closer to yourself 
18. Prayer gives us the habit of being clean
19. Prayer relieves back pain and joint pain
20. Prayer is overall cleanliness and hygiene
21. Prayer helps us believe that there is hope
22. Prayer maintains a positive outlook on life
23. Praying helps your body heal more efficiently
24. Prayer makes feel happy both mentally and socially

25. Prayer helps to gain an understanding of God’s loving 

Praying helps us believe that there is a higher being that can help us shoulder our burdens. Although having hope may not mean that things will turn out the way we want them to, trusting someone with our problems helps get a burden off our shoulders. However, the benefits of Prayer do not end with the spiritual domain but in fact, encompass the physical domain as well.

Prayer ensures that we remember God in the best way:

• Remembrance of Allah: We forget Allah and the obligations due to Him. When we forget Allah, this life and its worries become the central occupation of the human mind. “And establish the prayers (salah) in order to remember Me.” (Quran 20:14)
• God-Consciousness: The prayers (salah) also makes a person God-conscious. When a person prays five times a day, he becomes accustomed to feeling the presence of God and develops the sense that Allah is watching Him at all times.
• Seeking Forgiveness: We all need to constantly ask for Allah’s forgiveness and try our best not to repeat our mistakes. The prayer places man directly before Allah seeking pardon for his shortcomings.
• Control And Discipline: The prayer trains us to go through specific motions and utter special words at specific times. All the body parts are under control, obeying and worshipping Allah.

Prayer, Allah’s most beloved act of worship, is one of the five main pillars holding up the foundation of Islam. It is the most commonly performed ritual geared towards attaining closeness to Allah and poses as a key indicator of being a true Muslim. Prayer is used as a means of seeking solace, forgiveness, and peace through invoking Allah’s assistance; it serves as food for the soul.

Here are some amazing Health Benefits of Prayer (Salat):

• Wudu (Ablution): When we wash our hands, face, and feet region lead to preventing germs from the body thus promoting good health.
• Ablution (Wuzzo): It stimulates biological active spots similar to Chinese Reflex-Therapy, which has beneficial therapeutic effects on the hands, face, and feet region.
• Ablution: It helps to relax the nervous system and eases tension, stress, and anxiety.
• Washing hands: Five times a day (excluding washing before dietary intake) before Namaz means an effective way to keep germs away from the body.
• Handwashing: It is an efficient way to prevent the spread of germs.
• Gargling during ablution (Wudu) is very important as it helps to remove germs, allergens, and dust particles.
• Gargling with plain water: It reduces the chances of the common cold to a greater extent thereby contributing to health and hygiene. Gargling also reduces viral respiratory infections and sore throat. Gargling ensures the reduction in a bad breath too.
• Nose cleansing during Wuzzo: It removes dust, allergens, and contaminated matter. Nose cleaning with plain water helps to minimize infections such as flu, sinusitis, cold, and chest infections.
• Nasal cleaning with water: It overcomes nasal congestion and clears sticky matter in the nose.
• Nasal cleaning helps to treat allergic rhinitis: It is good for nasal dryness and improves breathing.
•  Face washing: It is very beneficial for refreshing as well as improving the facial complexion and reducing the impact of oily skin and retarded the growth of acne, pimples, wrinkles, and other facial spots.
• Ears cleaning: It is quite effective to prevent wax accumulation. Cleaning the ear with wet fingers five times a day is also good to remove dust and germs from the outer region of the ears.
• Washing the feet during Wuzo: It helps to clean dirt, fungus. It also acts like acupressure while fingers are passing through the bottom area of the toes. Rubbing the toes with fingers is also good in case of diabetes and removing pain from the body. As lots of Accu points are present in the upper and lower parts of toe regions and pressing these during ablution is helpful in curing pain like back pain, arthritis joint pain, etc.
• Offering Prayer: It has many benefits such as spiritual, religious, physical, mental, social, economic, social, etc.
• Prayer is highly beneficial to activate all the seven Chakras as per the Yogic philosophy.
• Yoga and Prayer: They are certainly a substitute for stress and disease free personalities
• .Prayer provides the ultimate satisfaction and peace to the mind.
• Prayer is one of the important means of health, happiness, and harmony.
• Prayer keeps one fit and healthy by burning extra calories thereby losing weight.
• Prayer is one of the effective ways of weight loss as well as to control obesity.
• Prayer stretches your muscles and helps to provide a toned body.
• Prayer is good to overcome arthritis as Prayer is good to enhance the flexibility of the body and reduce stiffness.
• Prayer is a good source to balance the Anabolic and Catabolic biochemical processes of the body.
• Prayer is good for the heart, brain, above all for the entire body.
• Standing posture in Namaz: It ensures proper blood flow in the lower portion of the body. It is also good for strengthening the leg muscles.
• While performing Sajdah: When the toes are experiencing acupressure which is good for better health of the body, especially for body pains.
• Salam is an excellent form of Neck: It is an excellent form of neck and upper vertebra exercise. It is helpful in loosening the neck joints and also helps to relax the shoulder and upper back muscles. Salam helps to refresh all the nerves that pass through the neck, thus good in case of headache and contend migraine.

وَاسْتَعِينُوا بِالصَّبْرِ وَالصَّلَاةِ وَإِنَّهَا لَكَبِيرَةٌ إِلَّا عَلَى الْخَاشِعِينَ

“And seek help through patience and the prayer; and indeed, it (is) surely difficult except on the humble ones.” (Surah Al-Baqarah 2:45)

Prayer serves as a way to deal with the aftermath and keep one’s faith. Your mind and body are focused solely on healing while prayer keeps you centred and hopeful. When you privately pray to God, you can work through serious decisions in your life. God always listens and often provides the specific answers and guidance we seek. We might have hoped, prayer itself is a way to find peace.

Here are dome benefits of Praying Namaz on your body:

• Reliefs 27% ankle pain
• Reliefs 13% toe pain
• Reliefs 53% knee pain
• Reliefs 28% wrist pain
• Performing Sajda in Prayer reliefs 24% lower back pain
• While standing in Prayer back pain is relieved by 25% and knee pain is relieved by 52%
• While by performing Rakuu in Prayer, 18% back pain reliefs. 31% hip joint pain reliefs. 63% knee pain reliefs

Day-to-day issues affect our stress levels and mood. Daily prayer keeps religious people looking forward to a better tomorrow. By being thankful for every day and every day to come praying for changes one’s outlook on life as a whole.

Allah Almighty says in the Holy Quran:

• “And they who carefully maintain their prayers.” (Quran 23:9)
• “…Surely, the prayer (salah) prevents evil speech and bad deeds…” (Quran 29:45)
• “Guard strictly your (habit of) prayers, especially the Middle Prayer; and stand before Allah in a devout (frame of mind).” (Quran 238)
• “O ye who believe! seek help with patient perseverance and prayer; for Allah is with those who patiently persevere.” (Quran 153)
• “Truly, my prayer and my service of sacrifice, my life, and my death, are (all) for Allah, the Cherisher of the Worlds.” (Quran 162)
• “To establish regular prayers and to fear Allah. for it is to Him that we shall be gathered together.” (Quran 72)
• “Successful indeed are the believers, those who humble themselves in their prayers.” (Quran 23:1-2)

The best way to remember God is to perform a ritual prayer. Each prayer that we perform reminds us of our Lord. Thus, praying is a valuable gift that God had offered us. Our beloved Prophet knew the value of this gift and seized every opportunity to pray. He expressed the happiness and peace that he experienced in praying, saying: “My happiness is in the prayers.” Allah says:

أَقِمِ الصَّلَاةَ لِدُلُوكِ الشَّمْسِ إِلَىٰ غَسَقِ اللَّيْلِ وَقُرْآنَ الْفَجْرِ إِنَّ قُرْآنَ الْفَجْرِ كَانَ مَشْهُودًا

“Establish the prayer, at the decline (of) the sun till (the) darkness (of) the night and Quran at dawn, indeed, the Quran (at) the dawn is ever witnessed..” (Surah Al-Isra` 17:78)

Prayer helps man to realize his natural and instinctive aspirations to greatness and high morality, to excellence and virtuous growth. Prayer purifies the heart and develops the mind, cultivates the conscience and comforts the soul. Prayer fosters the good and decent elements in man and suppresses the evil and indecent inclinations. A Muslim has to perform Prayer five times a day. Each prayer is equally important. Offer prayers regularly then Allah will shower His blessings on you.