Ninth Word Fifth Point Wisdom Of The Noon Prayer

The time of Zuhr just past midday is the time of the day's zenith and the start of its decline, the time when daily labours approach their completion, the time of a short rest from the pressures of work, when the spirit needs a pause from the heedlessness and insensibility caused by toil, and a time divine bounties are manifested. Anyone may understand then how fine and agreeable, how necessary and appropriate it is for the human spirit to perform the midday prayer, which means to be released from the pressure, shake off the heedlessness, and leave behind those meaningless, transient things, and clasping one's hands at the court of the True Bestower of Bounties, the Eternally Self-Subsistent One, to offer praise and thanks for all His gifts, and seek help from Him, and bowing to display one's impotence before His glory and tremendousness, and to prostrate and proclaim one's wonder, love, and humility. The person who does not understand this is not a true human being.