Salaah with more concentration

[Umm al_khair]

Salaah with more concentration

 

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 a salaah with more concentration.Aameen

 

I M A G I N E . . ..

 

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.

 

Imagine how revered a prophet is, that an entire chapter of the Holy

Qur'an 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?

 

What is the life of this world but play and amusement? But best is the

home in the hereafter, for those who are righteous. Will you not then

understand?

(Surat al-An'am: 32)

 

"The search of knowledge is an obligation laid on every Muslim" [ibn

Majah, Baihaqi]

[Strawberry_Xu]

Thank you so much for your article. I have been troubled by earthly thoughts lately whilst praying, and I found it harder to concentrate. Your words really made me think and helped put things in perspective.

[Muhammad]

Jazakallah ukhtii!

[Umm al_khair]

wa iyakum Salaxuddiin and Xu

 

and jazakalkhairan Salaxuddiin for posting this kuttbah Saaca-wa-Saaca: Sh Mustafa Xaaji on the other tread.

mashalaalh it was realy good it expalin the kushoo (humility)and raghbah (fervent desire) that the salaf use to have in salah.