Mawlana Hazar Imam explained the importance of prayer in a speech at Peshawar University in 1967, warning that:
“The day, we no longer know how, nor have the time nor the faith to bow in prayer to Allah because the human soul that He has told us is eternal is no longer of sufficient importance to us to be worthy of an hour of our daily working, profit-seeking time, will be a sunless day of despair.”
For further reading: https://www.iicanada.org/resources/faith-traditions/enduring-power-prayer