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[quote]Assalam alaikum,

It is a very nice verse that you have mentioned. Lets discuss it more.
Here is a literal translation:

فَخَلَفَ مِنْ بَعْدِهِمْ خَلْفٌ
Then offspring succeeded (from after) them,
اَضَاعُوْا الصَّلَوةَ
they wasted the salat
وَاتَّبَعُوْا الشَّهَوَتِ
and they obeyed the lusts
فَسَوْفَ يَلْقَوْنَ غَيًّا
then they will meet a delusion

The previous verse mentions people whom Allah graced from prophets and their children. This verse states that from those good people, there will come their offspring who will waste their salat and they will obey their desires, and they will be deceived in the end.

The nations and peoples who establish the salat, the salat helps prevent them from their lusts and evil desires. Those who leave the salat can fall into this trap easily. Salat makes us God conscious. Leaving salat, we are less or not God conscious at all, hence we may end up doing bad things and going to hell.

It does not say they were punished for not doing salat. They were punished because of the lusts and evil they followed, which they would not have followed had they not abandoned salat.

I am not suggesting we not do salat. We should definitely do it because of all the good things it brings us, including taqwa. But to say that you will be punished for not doing salat is not very accurate. You will be punished for the bad things you will end up doing if you give up salat.

Allah may forgive whoever He wills and punish whoever He wills. And Allah knows best.[/quote]

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