which of these two is a greater sin: adultery or abandoning prayer?

T h e A n s w e r : God Almighty has no need of your worship, nor indeed of anything else. Rather, it is you who needs to worship, for in truth you are sick. And as we have proved in many parts of the Risale-i Nur, worship is a sort of remedy for your spiritual wounds. If someone who is ill responds to a compassionate doctor who insists on his taking medicines that are beneficial for his condition by saying: “What need do you have of it that you are insisting in this way?”, you can understand how absurd it would be.

As for the severe threats and fearsome punishments in the Qur’an concerning the giving up of worship, they may be likened to a king, who, in order to protect his subject’ rights, inflicts a severe punishment on an ordinary man in accordance with the degree that his crime infringes those rights.

In the same way, the man who gives up worship and ritual prayer is violating in a significant manner the rights of beings, who are like the subjects of the Monarch of Pre-Eternity and Post-Eternity, and is in fact acting unjustly towards them. For the perfections of beings are manifested through the glorification and worship performed by that aspect of them which is directed towards their Maker. The one who abandons worship does not and cannot see this worship. Indeed, he denies it. Furthermore, beings occupy an exalted position by reason of their worship and glorification, and each is a missive of the Eternally Besought One, and a mirror to the Names of its Sustainer. Since he reduces them from their high positions and considers them to be unimportant, lifeless, aimless, and without duties, he is insulting them, and denying and transgressing their perfections.

Indeed, everyone sees the world in his own mirror. God Almighty created man as a measure and scale for the universe. And from the world He gave a particular world to each person. This world He colours for him in accordance with his sincere beliefs. For example, a despairing, lamenting, weeping person sees beings as weeping and in despair, while a cheerful, optimistic, merry person sees the universe as joyful and smiling. A reflective man given to solemn worship and glorification discovers and sees to a degree the certain, truly existent worship and glorification of beings, while a person who abandons worship through either neglect or denial sees beings in a manner totally contrary and opposed to the reality of their perfections, thus transgressing their rights.

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So see what a great loss is made by one who abandons the prescribed prayers. What significant wealth he loses, and he remains deprived of those two results and mines which afford him great eagerness in his effort and ensure a strong morale in his actions; he becomes bankrupt. Even, as he grows old, he will grow weary of gardening and lose interest in it, saying, "What is it to me? I am anyway leaving this world, why should I endure this much difficulty?" He will cast himself into idleness. But the first man says: "I shall work even harder at both worship and licit endeavours in order to send even more abundant light to my grave, and procure more provisions for my life in the hereafter. "

I n S h o r t : O my soul! Know that yesterday has left you, and as for tomorrow, you have nothing to prove that it will be yours. In which case, know that your true life is the present day. So throw at least one of its hours into a mosque or prayer-mat, a coffer for the hereafter like a reserve fund, set up for the true future.

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well...adultery is probably more fun, so if i had to choose......

but really, they're all not ok.

The context and result are probably the only ways to determine which one is worse. For example: lying is bad, and killing is bad...what if you lie and that lie accidentally gets 12 people killed...which one is worse?

What if abandoning prayer causes you to drink from self loathing and hurts the people around you?

What if adultery leads to overcharged feelings and regret and that leads to hurting the people around you?

There is no defining line saying "this sin is worse than this..." They all have the potential to inflict pain on others....which is why you shouldn't do them...which is why we call them sins...even a non-religious person knows on some level that the things labeled as sins are wrong in some way

I do not know what Bible you might have learn however homosexuality is spoken of particularly a little, along side all of the others. The Bible may be transparent on the truth that sin is sin and there is no little sin or colossal sin. They're simply as unhealthy, simply as evil and simply as unsuitable as a little bit white lie. Man has placed importance and weight on sins, now not God. As a ways as God is worried, one sin is ample to ship you to Hell, on the grounds that it most effective takes one sin to wreck the whole Law. Not you will reside with out sinning at a few factor. This is the rationale why Jesus needed to die at the pass for our sins. Otherwise we would haven't any desire in being with God for eternity. Rightly, we must all move to Hell. It's now not approximately doing proper or unsuitable in guy's eyes. It's all approximately what God thinks is proper and unsuitable. If you do not do as He says you are unsuitable and there is no wrong way round it. If something is disproportional in condemnation it is just on the grounds that guy has placed emphasis on some thing extra or on some thing else much less.

Well i am going to tell you my opinion

i think its abandoning prayer because its from the 5 major things we must do plus by praying u will be able to quit adultery

Adultry.

Once you do you can not take it back. Islamic Shariah has stoning to death punishment for adulterers.

You can always repent to Allah and go back to start praying again. But sin of adultry can not be washed, erased or forgotten because Angels

record this worst crime in humanity. Those

Non-Muslims cheat their spouses and commit adultry every day like they eat banana and think it is nothing. They have man made laws that desn't punish those who commit adultry with consenses of each other. I have news for them.

Those who get away with stoning to death punishment, God will punish them all with stoning to death on the DAy of Judgment and then they will also be burned in hell fire over and over and over.

Adultery. It is the breaking of a vow before man and God.

I don't think it is right to compare sins in this way.

While Quran persistently order us to establish prayer and hadith declare prayer is very sign of Eeman, Quran also delcare Zina as major sins along with shirk and murder.

i dont know to be honest,

i think its adultery, but thats my opinion

do you mean by abandoning prayer as in missing it once or twice or not praying at all?

it will be different for different people if you know what i mean

Abandoning prayer. Cuz like you know... when you do that its like.. not praising your creator and that's breaking one of the 5 pillars... and stuff

in my opinion abandoning prayer leads to adultery..