Why Did Allah Command Us To Pray
Once human beings realize the existence of a creator and etablish a conscious realtionship with Him, they have this innate need within themselves to express gratitude to the Almighty, just the way they have the same need w.r.t their other relations like with parents, siblings, teachers etc. But in case of the Creator, humans have no possible way of knowing how exctly should we express our gratitude to Him and in what way would it be acceptable to us, and in the absence of any such divine guidance, there was a great chance that human beings would’ve come up with ways that would infact result in some kind of polythestic activity or the differences would be so huge that they would’ve infact countered the whole purpose of Ibadah to begin with. That is why the same has been revealed by the God Himself and some of it has been mandated both to complement the first reason and secondly as a way to stay reminded of the true path continuously as to avoid any risk of deviation.
One thing I haven’t understood yet. Why their is hell for intentionally not Praying Salah?. What do you mean by intentionally?. I mean Salah is their to show gratitude. Why Allah wants to be praised?. I have understood that If a person develops a strong relationship he will automatically thank allah and will pray salah . If I do some good to anyone , should I expect him to show gratitude towards me?. Okay It’s a human nature to expect. But If he doesn’t show gratitude so shall I give him punishment for not showing gratitude towards me?. This is same like doing goodness to hear praise and indirectly forcing the other to show gratitude. My Question is Why allah told to pray Salah?. If the answer is to show “gratitude” then why there is hell for not praying Salah?. Then the gratitude will be changed into praying Salah to avoid serious sin or indirectly hell?