الَّذِينَ يَظُنُّونَ أَنَّهُم مُّلَاقُو رَبِّهِمْ وَأَنَّهُمْ إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ (46)
(2:46) who realize that ultimately they shall meet their Lord and shall return to Him. *61
*61). This means that Prayer is an insufferable encumbrance and affliction for the man who tends not to want to obey, God and to believe in the After-life. For the man who, of his own voilation, has to stand before God after death, it is failure to perform the Prayer, rather than its performance, that becomes intolerable.