Prayer ideally becomes an unreflective bodily necessity like eating

Evidence

Mona continued, “But you don’t get upset enough that you don’t miss the next morning prayer. Performing the morning prayer should be like the things you can’t live without: for when you don’t eat, or you don’t clean your house, you get the feeling that you must do this. It is this feeling I am talking about: there is something inside you that makes you want to pray and gets you up early in the morning to pray. And you’re angry with yourself when you don’t do this or fail to do this.” — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 880

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Bourdieu’s habitus and the book’s central thesis that piety is cultivated bodily disposition, not voluntary choice.