Your footsteps to the mosque are precious in Allah’s Sight, since you are walking these steps to bring His Remembrance into your life, answer His Call, and obey His Command. Your effort, therefore, is to be repaid in kind. Just as you are taking one step after another to reach the mosque, hoping for Allah’s Grace and generous gifts, in return, with every step you take, Allah will wipe out one of your misdeeds and raise your status by one degree until you enter the mosque.
· Honorable Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
“Whoever purifies themselves in their home and then walks to one of the Houses of Allah to perform one of the obligatory prayers enjoined by Allah, for every two steps they take, one will erase a sin and the other will raise them one degree in status”
(Narrated by Muslim)
· He (peace and blessings be upon him) also said about the merit of going to the mosque as a means of drawing near to Allah:
“Whoever comes and goes to the mosque, Allah will prepare for them a hospitable abode in Paradise for each time they come and go”
(Narrated by Al-Bukhari and Muslim)
