Before it's too late...

I'm praying salaat, and I'm in the qiyam position reciting quraan.

As I finish, I say, "Allahu Akbar" and then bend over for ruku.

Except I can't.

I haven't even prayed one rakaat yet, and I can't bend for ruku.

I try harder, but it seems impossible.  As if something is pulling me back.

And then I suddenly realise that I've become disoriented and that direction really doesn't exist.

There is no up, down, right, left.

No direction.

I really want to continue my salaat and make this ruku.

But I can't.

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And then my eyes open, and I think to myself, that the reason I couldn't make ruku was because I was lying down on a bed and that gravity was pulling me down.

And it was a short, but very vivid dream.

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But what does it mean?

Make your ruku while you still can?  Offer you salaat while you still have the opportunity?

What if that was my last salaat, and I couldn't even complete it?

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I have this poster on my door.  It says,

"Take benefit of five before five:

your youth before your old age,

your health before your sickness,

your wealth before your poverty,

your free time before you are preoocupied,

your life before your death."

It is a saying the merciful Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.)

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