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| Halima |
| 04/30/04 at 09:17:13 |
| ~~ Concentration in Salaah ~~ * Most of us get distracted and bring lots of worldly thoughts and problems into our mind when performing salaah. It is said then when a person performs salaah they should imagine the things below. Insha-Allah this will make us all more conscious and enable us to perform our salaah with more concentration. I M A G I N E …… [i]The Holy Prophet (S.A.W.) has said that whilst you are praying: Imagine that all the prophets are on your right side, all the angels on your left, heaven in front of you, hell below you, the angel of death at your back and Allah (S.W.T.) watching over you.[/i] Imagine how revered a prophet is, that an entire chapter of the Holy Quran may be dedicated to him, imagine their position in heaven right now. Imagine 124,000 of them all lined up on your right side whilst you are praying. How then can you be distracted? Imagine the sacredness of an angel. Every human being has been allocated two of them for accounting of his deeds. Every cloud moves because Allah (S.W.T) has ordered an angel to that function. Imagine the light from which each one of them was created, and all of them (much more than 6 billion) assembled on your left side listening to you praying. How then can you be distracted? Imagine hell! In a Hadith-al-Qudsi, Allah says that hell will have seven levels with fires, which eat each other! In each level, there are valleys of fire, cities of fire, castles of fire, houses of fire, rooms of fire, wells of fire, serpents of fire, oceans of black poison containing thousands of scorpions of fire, each one in turn having seventy thousand tails of fire. In reality, hellish fire is much hotter than earthly fire, and hell is unimaginably much worse this description. Imagine heaven! In Hadith-al-Qudsi, Allah says that heaven will have eight gates with thousands of gardens, thousands of cities of pearls, thousands of palaces of Ruby, thousands of rooms of gold, thousands of tables and of plates of jewels, thousands of kinds of food, thousands of thrones of red gold around each of which thousands of rivers will flow with life water and pure honey. On top of each palace, there will be thousands of gifts from the Merciful, which have not been seen by any eye, heard by any ear and are beyond our imagination. It has been said that in spite of all this pleasure, if the residents of heaven were shown the punishment of someone who did wrong for just one hour on earth, they would scream out with fear. And in spite of all their discomfort, if the residents of hell were shown the reward of someone who did good for only one hour on earth, they would forget they are in hell! Now imagine this hell beneath you and the open doors of heaven in front of you whilst you are praying. How then can you be distracted? Imagine the angel of death behind you, the angel that appears as a beautiful person at the deathbed of one who is favoured by Allah and as fierce creature that pulls the soul out as if it were a cloth being dragged amongst sharp thorns for one who is disfavoured. Imagine this angel just at your back whilst praying. How then can you be distracted if you are not even sure that this might be your last prayer? And finally imagine the Creator of all that has been mentioned in the previous paragraphs, one who has created an almost infinite universe of which earth is only a very tiny insignificant bit, and more insignificant are we who live in it. How then can you be distracted if the Lord of existence is watching above you whilst you are offering prayers to Him? (messageislam.com) |
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| se7en |
| 05/06/04 at 03:38:24 |
| as salaamu alaykum, There is a text that says that when a person turns away from the direction of the Qiblah in salah, Allah asks, "Where are you turning? To something better than Me?" Subhan'Allah.. How many times during the salah does my heart turn away from it's qiblah? Where am I turning? Is there something or someone better than the One with whom I'm communicating? *sigh* may Allah make us of those whose perform salah with fully-engaged quloob, never turning away from Him, ameen. wasalaamu alaykum wa rahmatullah |
| 05/06/04 at 03:41:49 |
| se7en |
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| Muslim_Sista |
| 05/18/04 at 09:35:50 |
| [slm] sister that was beutiful alhamdulillah. puts it all into perspective. sometymes i find it really hard to concentrate in me namaz :'( but now i shall keep that hadith in my head inshallah! khudafis |
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| sal |
| 05/18/04 at 16:15:31 |
| [slm][quote]Subhan'Allah.. How many times during the salah does my heart turn away from it's qiblah? Where am I turning? Is there something or someone better than the One with whom I'm communicating? [/quote] These words are touching heart jazak allah khair sis se7en for this lesson |
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| Kathy |
| 05/20/04 at 08:23:54 |
| [slm] Subhannah Allah. I tried this and began crying like a baby... didn't feel I was worthy enough to be standing with them... The next time I prayed I imagined it again and this time I felt like a child, who stands in line with their parents and elders. All of a sudden the child's posture and prayers get much better, because they want to mimic them. When oh when will i ever feel like I belong? |
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| nida |
| 05/20/04 at 20:01:51 |
| [wlm] Thank you sis Halima, this article has helped me. Just when i saw the title i was like.."i reeaaaallly gotta read this", so i printed it out. I have been zoning out in my salaah lately. I hope i put an end to that.Anywayz, thankx again. -:-) |
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