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day, punctiliously, on time and never missing, and with great fervor
and enthusiasm. Our Prophet (saas) notes the importance of prayer
in many of the hadith. In one hadith narrated by Abu Hurayra,
Rasulullah (saas) said:
Abu Huraira reported: Verily the Messenger of Allah (saas) said: Five
(daily) prayers and from one Friday prayer to the (next) Friday
prayer, and from Ramadhan to Ramadhan are expiatious for the (sins)
committed in between (their intervals) provided one shuns the major
sins. (Sahih Muslim, Book 2, Number 450)
No matter what the unbelievers who attempt to mock the reli-
gious practices do, they cannot harm the believers or make them feel
small. On the contrary, when the believers encounter this type of be-
havior, they feel encouraged and continue their worship with even
greater joy.
The unbelievers think that they can hurt the believers by mock-
ing them. However, they do not succeed in this, for they only cause
the believers to be more exalted in the hereafter. We can even say
that, in a sense, they do the believers a service. But because they are
incapable of understanding this, they once again reveal their lack of
intelligence.

Their Rejection of the Resurrection
The unbelievers also mock and violently and irrationally reject
the resurrection, because if they accept this belief they will come face
to face with the necessity of living according to the Qur'an's moral-
ity. In addition, the resurrection means that all people will be called
to account for what they have done in this world. On that day, only
those who have lived in accordance with Allah's injunctions, as con-
tained in the Qur'an, will find salvation. After the Day of Judgment,
Allah's eternal justice will punish the sinful and reward those who