Tafheem ul Quran

Surah 2 Al-Baqarah, Ayat 46-46

الَّذِيۡنَ يَظُنُّوۡنَ اَنَّهُمۡ مُّلٰقُوۡا رَبِّهِمۡ وَاَنَّهُمۡ اِلَيۡهِ رٰجِعُوۡنَ‏ ﴿2:46﴾

(2:46) who realize that ultimately they will have to meet their Lord and that to Him they are destined to return.61


Notes

61. This means that Prayer is an insufferable encumbrance and affliction for the man who tends not to want to obey, God and to believe in the After-life. For the man who, of his own violation, has to stand before God after death, it is failure to perform the Prayer, rather than its performance, that becomes intolerable.