Sunnah Prayers

The sunnah Salah completes the Fard Salah. Our fard Salah is usually incomplete due to several reasons.  Sometimes we lack focus, sometimes our intentions are lacking sincerity, sometimes we pray too fast etc.

What leads to the Hellfire

Allah says:

فَخَلَفَ مِنْ بَعْدِهِمْ خَلْفٌ أَضَاعُوا الصَّلَاةَ وَاتَّبَعُوا الشَّهَوَاتِ ۖ فَسَوْفَ يَلْقَوْنَ غَيًّا

Then, there has succeeded them a posterity [of bad people] who have lost the Salah [the Prayer] and have followed [desires]. So they will meet Ghaiy. [19:59]

This ayat was revealed in Makkah, when the da'wah first went public and the challenge to the Muslims was at its worst. [1]  The passage follows a description of the prophets of Allah and their offspring whom Allah had guided as, Allah says,