and beware the supplication of one who is wronged: if you take the choicest portions of their wealth you have indeed wronged them, and they will pray against you. So fear the supplication of the oppressed, for there is no barrier between it and Allah. Allah answers it even when it issues from a disbeliever; whenever the victim of oppression calls upon Him—even if he is a non-believer—Allah will avenge him against the oppressor, either immediately or after some time. This is part of upholding justice, and Allah, the best of judges, perfects His wisdom through justice among His servants, taking the right of the oppressed from the hand of the oppressor.

The point we glean from this ḥadīth is his statement: “Inform them that Allah has made five prayers obligatory upon them every day and night.” Allah is the One who grants success.

1078 – Jābir (may Allah be pleased with him) reported: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, “Between a man and shirk (associating partners with Allah) and kufr (disbelief) stands the abandonment of prayer.” Related by Muslim.

1079 – Buraydah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that the Prophet ﷺ said, “The covenant that distinguishes us from them is the prayer; whoever abandons it has committed disbelief.” Related by al-Tirmidhī, who graded it ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ.