Weightage of Salat within Islam
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Peace to All,
My question is, what is the weightage % of the element of salat amongst all contributing elements towards the ultimate success of the individual Muslim and be the triumphant ?
What is needed for consideration of the above question are as follow;
• 1. You need to list the other elements* necessary to be a successful Muslim.
2. Salat would be one of the elements.
3. As for salat, what is your view of what is salat, it is ritual prayers , commitment, connection, recitation, etc.
4. Depending on your definition of what is salat, what weightage % upon 100% would you put on it relative to all other elements.•
There is a long list of elements necessary to be a successful Muslim, e.g. submission , believe , salat , fasting, zakat , remembrance , trust , good works , no Shirk, 3budu . etc., etc.
Views?
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Peace,
For those who are not familiar with analysis of criticalness by weightage %.
Example of a weightage computation.
There are many organs/elements within the human being and all must function properly and interdependently to enable a human being to survive effectively and healthily.Say we want to determine which organ is most critical to the survival of a human being in the case of an emergency.
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List down all the organs within the human body
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Estimate say 5 or 10 critical organs and lump all other as 'others'
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Put weightage % to each category and all % total to 100%
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Thus what we have is;
The 5 critical organs/elements are;
- Brain
- Heart
- Lungs
- Blood
- Others
My weightage % assigned would be as follows;
- Brain - 80%
- Heart - 10
- Lungs - 5
- Blood - 2
- Others - 3
Total ------100%
My justifications of assigning brain =80% is because without the brain, the person would be dead. Thus in any emergency the brain must be attended to with 80% urgency.
The other organs are not so critical because they can be replaced or artificially supported.The above is just an example of a weighting exercise, thus the justifications in this example is not valid for discussion.
In the weighting exercise the critical elements may be more than 5 and as many as necessary to convey the point.
Note the total % assigned must add up to 100%.The weighting exercise is applicable to any project and determining its critical element.
Say, if one were to prepare a checklist for items necessary for an overseas trip by air.
Amongst the many items a 'valid passport' would be rated 75% critical in general for the majority. -