The importance of prayer (salaat, not dua (supplication))

I'll try to translate to the best of my ability, all (as far as I know) of mufti mudassir's lectures are in urdu:

Mufti Mudassir (abbrev heretofore as "MM")
Prayer is the primary means (urdu: "zarya") to get to a state of ihsan (def by the prophet pbuh: "to worship Allah as if you see Him, and if you cannot get to this level, then at least know that He sees you."). MM says about this, notice the primary objective is "to worship Allah as if you see Him" a 'plan b' be the rest, and he says notice that there is NO third option.

MM said huge awliya (common def: major scholars, primary expertise in tasawwuf) used to say "what's the point of Jannah if there's no prayer ('salat', 'namaz') in it"

MM said that a major wali (singular of "awliya") said "jannah won't have salaat??? awww"

MM said that hazrat haqi indaaz-ullah muhajir said, "if on the day of judgement Allah asks me 'what would you like', i would say 'Oh Allah, give me permission to pray".

And it's very interesting, because the greatest reward we will get in jannah inshAllah will be to see Allah, MM said that the Prophet pbuh said that we will get to see Allah the way people see the moon, MM explained that people will get to see Allah altogether and not have to fight over "get out of the way! let me see!".... and the interesting thing is that prayer, the primary means for us to reach a state of iHsan, a state where it is AS IF we see Allah, is a microcosm for when we ACTUALLY see Allah, which is the climax. subHanAllah!

subHanAllah! shaykh hamza said that a salaf (i think) said that if the corrupt rich people had ANY idea about what a pleasure islamic knowledge is, then they would literally fight us for it.

shaykh hamza said that imam ghazzali (ra) said that the highest amount of pleasure our physical bodies could feel in the world is in having relations with our spouse. And that in the Quran where Allah talks about "hoor ul ayn", we will get hoor ul ayn inshAllah, but it also is like super-duper spousal-relations. Like a physical pleasure far beyond what we can experience in this world.

... So "seeing" Allah is just like that except instead of our bodies experiencing this "rush" it is our souls.

pretty amazing eh?