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Why does someone not pray? I'm not talking about you, my dear son or my daughter.

I'm not talking about you, but just let's ask the question, why does someone not pray?

There could be lots of answers, but Allah has His own answer to that question.

It's a pretty scary answer. It's an answer I read in the beginning of this hotba.

He didn't actually accept the truth and he nor did he pray.

Allah says, he was talking about disbelievers and he said two things.

They didn't accept it. This person doesn't accept the truth and he doesn't pray. Interesting.

So if you say, if he didn't accept the truth, I would expect him to say,

lassaddaka, wala amana, but he says lassadda. What that means is

something is missing in you accepting the truth about Allah. No, no, no, the child says,

I believe in Allah. I'm Muslim. Yeah, you're Muslim here. You're Muslim in your head,

but this truth isn't just for your head. This truth is also for your heart.

Something is you're not feeling how true this is yet. You're not feeling how serious this is yet.

You don't realize what it is. Sometimes you know something but you don't think about it.

It's true. You know something. You don't think about it.

And so because that's missing, that's why it becomes easy for me to mispray or sometimes and

you to mispray or sometimes. That will happen because our heart becomes a little distracted.

And that truth of this deen, the truth of who Allah is, that truth goes in a shelf in the back of

our mind and we get distracted and don't think about it. That's what Allah is saying. So

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