Question
What is the reason for the obligation of performing prayer?
Answer
I say, and with God's success: The obligation of performance is the request to discharge the liability, and it has a real cause and an apparent cause: As for the real cause: it is the command of God Almighty: that is, His request from us. As for the apparent cause: it is the word indicating that: like the word: (Establish the prayer). See: Tahhtawi's margin, p. 173, and God knows best.