Many people have told me that these small problems I encounter is because I dont keep my prayers. And if I regularly kept my prayers, the small diffculties in life would pass by so smoothly without causing any ill effects or not even occure. And I have also noticed that is very true. I mean my problems do dissolve like they never existed as soon as I start my prayers (in most cases from the very next day) and I find myself wondering and recalling, “Oh what was I upset about…? What was the issue?” And other than enjoying a problem-free life, my heart, my mind, my soul starts to feel so serene (Yes, Mamaof3, there are times. I wasnt kidding 
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So many times, I tried to keep all my prayers but after a few days I always tended to lose the will and then many months pass by without me praying even months. Then Im surrounded by those irritating problems again which make me remember God and again after a few days of desire to seek ‘God’ and be His servant, I return to the old status inviting unwanted difficulties. So the cycle continues.
So, I went out with a lovely girl from work a couple of days ago. Just by looking at her, I feel she’s very closed to God. Just looking at her face (Yeah, a serene face), being with her, I get into state of tranquility myself. MashaAllah, she is very pure.
So, when I was dropping her off, she said (Yeah, she is almost the 20th person to say the same thing), “Will you promise me something? Will you do me a favor?” I said, “Sure.” And I was NOT AT ALL expecting what she said after that. She said, “Will you keep all your prayers from today?”
Somehow we ended up talking about the way of praying. She actually got frightened to know from me the ‘Pakistani’ way of praying. Upon knowing that ‘Isha’ prayer had 17 raka’ats, she almost screamed. She asked why us Pakistanis complicated things. She said, “2 raka’ats Fajjar, 4 for Zohar, 4 for Asar, 3 for Maghrib and 4… yes F.O.U.R for Isha.” Then it was my turn to faint. I scccrrrreeeeeeammmed, "FOUR FOR ISSSHHHAAAA??? 
" She said, “Yes, as I dont blame you for missing your prayers as your way of praying doesnt sound like it is to worship God but it sounds like an effort of scaring people hence driving common people away from praying and religion. Why do you guys complicate things? Who will pray 17 raka’ats for Isha? Good enough to discourage someone who WANTS to.”
Okay so since that day I have not missed a single prayer yet. I mean tell me what’s so difficult with 2, 4, 4, 3 & 4 raka’ats in one day which hardly takes up maximum 5 minutes of your time each?
I have been feeling so angry with the ‘Pakistani Islam’. Why do we love to complicate things? I mean, WHY???
RIDICULOUS people. Above all RIDICULOUS Islamic leaders (mullahs) who want to LEAD the crowd teaching others their OWN Islam.
Ahh… did I mentioned I HATE mullahs? Oh yes, I just did 