There is no difference between the rich and the poor...

There is no difference between the rich and the poor, the black and the white, the master and the slave, the informed and the uninformed person. Congregational prayer is the best form of elimination of racism. The gap between the people from different classes or races is reduced to zero once they attend congregational prayers.

“Congregational prayers are decreed because true devotion, submission and servitude of God shall not be attained unless it is done in public. The public performance of such deeds is a clear testimony of the uniqueness of God for the people of the East and the West. It is to be done in public so that even hypocrites and those who belittle the Muslims in private practically have to do what they have verbally confessed in public and have to make their devotion and submission clear to the public.

This is done so that it becomes easily possible for the people to testify as to one another’s being Muslim. In addition to these, another benefit of the congregational prayer is that it makes it possible to help others and to cooperate with each other. It becomes possible for the people to worship God.

Through congregational prayers, a lot of the bad deeds and acts of disobedience to God the Exalted the High are forbidden.” In another tradition we read: “Imam Sadiq quoted on the authority of his noble father who quoted on the authority of God’s Prophet : مَن صَلّى الخَمْسَ في جَماعَةٍ فَظُنُّوا بهِ خَيراً. “Think well of one who performs all his five sessions of daily prayers in congregations.” [^2] This is the point that was mentioned earlier.

One of the major benefits of attending congregational prayers is the mutual trust that is developed between those who attend.