Islam Guidance

Verse103

(103) فَإِذَا قَضَيْتُمُ الصّلوةَ فَاذْكُرُواْ اللّهَ قِيَامًا وَقُعُودًا وَعَلَى جُنُوبِكُمْ فَإِذَا اطْمَأْنَنتُمْ

فَأَقِيمُواْ الصّلوةَ إِنَّ الصّلوةَ كَانَتْ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ كِتَابًا مَّوْقُوتًا

103. " Then when you have finished the prayer, remember Allah standing and sitting and reclining. Then, when you are secure (from danger) establish the prayer (as usual). Verily the prayer at fixed times has been enjoined upon the believers. "
Commentary
The Importance of Prayer, a Commandment!
Following the instruction of 'prayer of fear' mentioned in the previous verse, and the necessity of establishing prayer even shile you are fighting, it continues saying in this verse:
" Then when you have finished the prayer, remember Allah standing and sitting and reclining. ..."
The Purpose of the phrase: ' remember Allah standing and sitting and reclining may have been the same different warfare positions inwhich soldiers sometimes use the various weapons designed for wars including the means of shooting.

Another attitude indicates that the purpose of this phrase is that in all conditions including: standing, sitting and reclining, whether you are healthy or sick, and even when you are struggling against the enemy, remember Allah.(1)
In fact, the above mentioned verse is a hint to an Islamic important instruction which denotes that: establishing prayers at the appointed times does not mean that a person neglects the remembrance of Allah in other times.
Then the Qur'an informs us that the instruction for the 'prayer of fear' is an exceptional commandment, and as soon as the condition of fear removes the circumstance will be as follows:
"... Then, when you are secure (from danger) establish the prayer (as usual)..."
The secret of all these instructions and recomendations is for the fact that prayer is one of the Divine certain obligations which is enjoined for all dynasties and in all times, because it is not separated from Faith. However, according to some Islamic traditions, the Arabic word /manghut/, mentioned in the verse, has been rendered into 'a fixed obligatory at an appointed time'.(2)
"... Verily the prayer at fixed times has been enjoined upon the believers. "

(1) Makhzan-ul-'Irfan, vol. 2, p. 150 & Tafsir-ul-Burhan, vol. 1, p. 413.
(2) Tafsir-ul-Burhan, vol. 1, p. 412 and some other commendations.

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