The Second Pillar of Islam

The second pillar of Islam is Salah.

Salah is the arabic word which means "The programming towards righteousness". Salah is not just praying five times a day. Of course, praying five-times a day is the most important act of Salah. When a muslim goes for a Salah, and if a person asks where you are going, it will be very odd to say that I'm going "towards programming my righteousness". When we come across the word "Programming", the very first thing comes in our mind is the Computer. So, this is why, we muslims prefer to say Salah as Prayer. If we say the Human being as a computer, then it is the very difficult computer to program. That is why, we muslims go to Salah five-times-a-day. We program our selves towards righteousness five-times-a-day. Salah is performed as a duty towards Allah (swt). They strengthen and enliven the belief in Allah (swt) and inspire a man to a higher morality. They purify the heart and prevent us from temptation towards wrong doing and evil acts. We muslims face the Kaa'bah while offering our prayers. This is known as the Qiblah, which means Direction in Arabic.

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