Asalamualaikum warehmatullah wahbarakatuhu
I read this hadeeth in a book I bought the other day, and it made me think to myself - what a hurry we are always in, when we pray "Oh I must get back to work", "Oh I must go and eat", "Oh such and such is waiting for me"....ya'ani...do we forget this next salaah may be our last...?
It's the simple things that we often neglect, that become routine and no longer an act of "iba'dah" and the dhikr that flows off one's tongue so fast it is like we are reciting a book all in one breath...or the wudhu that is done so fast there are still dry spots that remain untouched, unpurified...the sujud where the head literally raises from the ground so fast that you would think it bounced....when that last breath departs from our lips, will we not have remorse and regret for not paying heed to the the things that mattered, the many opportunities we had to please Allah, that we neglected or didn't give 100%...stealing from our salah the khushu, the benefits, the reward, the purpose......
May Allah protect us from the evils of the dunya and the whispers of shaytaan and our nafs and help us all to correct our iba'dah, so that we may benefit from it in the dunya and in the akhirra inshaAllah....