Salaah Always Comes First [Even before Pizza, but you'll get that too]

Got my pizza too, Alhamdulilah. :)

So my family and I decided to pray Isha (evening prayer) in Jama'aat (congregation) today... (see what happens when you take a break from FB? You log into blogger and begin spamming your followers with posts like this one.)

Anyways, we were on the second Rak'ah, my younger bro was leading and reciting, (Surah Baqarah an all!) when the door knocked. Lo and behold, it was the Pizza delivery man, who had parked his car like a mile away, and walked over to our place to deliver us some hot Pizzas. We were expecting him, but not on time. I could sense the panic in the air, and I bet everyone was thinking exactly like me at that moment "Oh no, what if he goes!" In all honesty, it wasn't even about the pizza, it was the fact that my nana had treated us to the delivery, (he'd paid for it beforehand), and the poor delivery guy had to walk all that way, in the snow and probably slipping on ice, to get those pizzas to us. But, what's a rule of life? Salaah becomes before everything, and so no, gladly, no one decided to break their prayer to tend to the door, my brother didn't super fast forward the Salaah either, he just cut it shorter than he intended. I went into Sujood, and could hear knock after knock (for a good five minutes and they were growing louder and louder!), and so I made Du'aa. Soemthing like "O Allah, make him wait for us, inspire him to wait till we've finished praying" and "O Allah, place barakah in time, so he feels like he hasn't been waiting that long." And then we did our Salaam, ran to the door, opened it and got our pizzas.

Moral of the story: Salaah always comes first! In such situations, stay calm, stay focused, remember who you are standing in front of of; the One who provides you with those pizzas, food and all other blessings, the one who is in charge of the delivery guy knocking on the door, the one who will answer your supplications (in whatever language you call on Him), and who will reward you for not leaving your prayer for those pizzas, and will make everything fall into place, so not only will you be rewarded, but you'll get those Pizzas too. Islam is so awesome. Alhamdulilah. :)