Set prayer rows in order, close the gaps

📖Sunan Abī Dāwūd 666
Ibn ʿUmar reported: The Prophet ﷺ said, Establish the rows for prayer, stand shoulder to shoulder, close the gaps, accommodate your brethren, and do not leave any breaches for Satan. Whoever connects a row, Allah will connect with him. Whoever breaks a row, Allah will break from him.”

Explanation:
This command is both physical and spiritual. In prayer rows, Muslims learn equality, order, and teamwork — no one is ahead because of wealth, power, or tribe. It is a living reminder that before Allah, everyone is the same.

Reason & Wisdom:
When people stand united in prayer:

1. It strengthens hearts – standing together daily removes feelings of isolation and distrust.
2. It builds instant communication – after prayer, people can discuss urgent needs, community problems, and ways to help one another.
3. It prevents fitnah – when the community regularly meets, rumors and misunderstandings are quickly cleared.
4. It allows collective decision-making – from arranging charity for the poor to organizing defenses in times of crisis, unity in the masjid becomes unity in action.
5. It trains discipline – learning to follow the imam together prepares people to follow rightful leadership in other matters of life.

Danger of ignoring it:
When a person chooses to “do their own way” and avoids such unity, it:

• Breaks the habit of collective thinking.
• Makes selfishness normal.
• Allows Shayṭān to plant suspicion and division.
• Turns religion into an individual comfort zone instead of a shared responsibility.

📖Qur’ān 3:103
“And hold firmly to the rope of Allah all together and do not become divided. And remember the favor of Allah upon you — when you were enemies and He brought your hearts together and you became, by His favor, brothers.”

• The masjid is where this rope of Allah is physically and spiritually held together. Abandoning it is abandoning the very place where brotherhood grows.

📖Qur’ān 6:159
“Indeed, those who have divided their religion and become sects – you have nothing to do with them. Their affair is only with Allah; then He will inform them about what they used to do.”

• Those who separate themselves, whether in prayer rows or in community affairs, are on the same dangerous path of division.