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If namaz is performed in haste and without concentration, then such an ibadat does not rise to the heavens. Rather it is thrown back into our faces. I may have learned this from a video or an article.
If we complete an assignment in a slapdash way and then submit it to our boss or professor, do you think we will get the maximum number of marks? A series of low marks will hurt the overall grade and evaluation. Those same low marks can deprive us of better opportunities such as a promotion or admission into the best programs and universities. We also lose the regard of our boss or professor. Now connect this to the akhirat. If we want the best of the blessings in the next world, then we should strive to give Allah our best in everything. But any blessing that we are granted is due to His mercy than to our worthiness. Submitting the best of yourself to the one in superiority or authority over us signifies value. It means we value our performance, we value that relationship and that role. It’s natural to feel lazy and to be distracted. Allah did not make us perfect. He made us to strive. There is humility and submission toward our Creator when give our best in all ibadaat. There is also humility and submission to our Creator when we are aware of our imperfections and seek His forgiveness for our deficiencies regularly.
Every mother wants the world to have the best opinion or expectations (husn e zann) of her child. And Allah loves His creation more than a mother does. A hadith says that it is out of reverence to Allah that one honors an old man. Every relationship and its rights are honored in Islam whether it is our parents, our neighbors, our children, our employer, on and on. If a king dispatched a representative to your home, you would honor them because they are in association with the king. Each of us, Muslims and non Muslims alike, are associated with Allah because He made us. This very taaluq is lofty and so special in and of itself that it should inspire and humble all of us to do our best in being kind to others and to have husn e zann for them.
