2 - Outlook is Key

Now before any change in us can take place, we need to reexamine our outlook on prayer.

Ask yourself: Why do i pray? Is it just because I have to? Is it just to get this daily duty out of the way and over with? Or maybe it is because everyone just does it so I do it too?

It's time to make a change. We need to start praying out of sincere Love. Pray out of longing to be with the one you love. Pray.. for the peace and comfort that comes from being with the one you love There are 3 reasons which make you love someone:

1. Either because that someone is beautiful!
2. Or because that someone always deals kindly with you.
3. Or because that someone has done many favors for you.

Think of Allah now. He is all of the above and more, isn't He? Doesn't He then deserve to be the most worthy of our love over everything and anyone else? To truly love Allah is to truly taste the greatest love in existence! It is to truly taste the beauty of faith:

- As to Allah's beauty, look around at all that is beautiful in creation, be it inner or outer beauty.. It is all but a small hint to ultimate beauty He beholds. If every person was created with the beauty of everything we see around us- all this in comparison to the beauty of Allah, would be like that of a weak candle light to the brightness of the sun! And Allah's beauty is unique, for it's coupled with everlasting glory! And just think. He sets this Most Beautiful, Glorious Face to yours when you stand in prayer!

- Allah's beauty is so immense that we cannot see Him in this world, for if He were to manifest to us His glory, it would burn everything in this existence! Recall what happened to Prophet Musa when he once asked to see Allah. Allah said,

"You cannot see Me. But look upon the mountain, if it remains firm in

place then you will be able to see Me."

To this, Allah manifested Himself to the mountain, and the mountain crumbled in total annihilation! Musa collapsed, and fainted (see 7:143). This was what happened to Musa when he only saw the mountain which saw Allah's beauty. So imagine if it was a direct sight!

- As to Allah's kindness and favors upon us, just close your eyes momentarily to appreciate just the gift of sight alone. If we were to cound His favors upon us, never will we be able to enumerate them. And sometimes we gripe when a favor has not been granted to us. Don't we then realize in hindsight, that it was much better for us this way? The denial of this favor, we realize later, was a favor in itself. For Allah has nothing but good.

- And Imagine. When we dare and sin against Him, we sin using the very gifts and blessings He has given us! But out of His love and mercy for us, He continues to guard over us and protect us, even while we're in the act! You will not find anyone more kind; you will not find anyone more giving. You sill notfind anyone more worthy of your love than He.

Remember this: The sweetness of this life lies in remembering Him, the seetness of the next life lies in seeing Him!

The next time you proceed for prayer, go because you love Him, go because you miss Him  and long to be with Him. Feel your heart flutter. Only then, will you be on your way to attaining that inner peace and comfort Salah was prescribed for.

Village in The Ocean - Philippine

Cano Cristales

The Cano Cristales, touted as the most beautiful river in the world (also called as River of five colors), is river flowing in Colombia runs for about 100 km before joining into the main water body. It is located in the northern part of Colombia, in Sierra de la Macarena. The river can be seen with multi-color mosses and algae all around, at a specified time of a year, otherwise which appear to be dull green and brown all over. The multi-color effect is mainly due to the variation in the water level which is affected during some parts of the year, and thus making the mosses bright up and blooms for the spectators.

The Painted Desert - USA

The Painted Desert is a United States desert of badlands in the Four Corners area from the Grand Canyon National Park into the Petrified Forest National Park. Much of the area within the Petrified Forest National Park is protected as the Petrified Forest National Wilderness Area. Much of the Painted Desert region is within the Navajo Nation. The desert is composed of stratified layers of easily erodible siltstone, mudstone, and shale of the Triassic Chinle Formation. These fine grained rock layers contain abundant iron and manganese compounds which provide the pigments for the various colors of the region.

A Desert Surrounded By Icy Mountains - Russia

Zabaykalsky Krai is a region with snow-capped mountains and huge ice fields to the east of Lake Baikal in Russia. But not many people are aware of the fact that a true desert can be found in the place.

Hell fire

Sahih Muslim

The Book Pertaining to Paradise, Its Description, Its Bounties and Its Intimates - كتاب الجنة وصفة نعيمها وأهلها

English reference: Book 40, Hadith 6810
Arabic reference: Book 54, Hadith 7343

Danxia Landform

This unique geological sight is known as Danxia landform. The Danxia landform refers to various landscapes found in southeast and southwest China that "consist of a red bed characterized by steep cliffs". It is a unique type of petrographic geomorphology found in China.Danxia landform is formed from red-colored sandstones and conglomerates of largely Cretaceous age.