Prayer #4
Reading time: 2 - 4 minutes
Bismillahir Rahmaanir Raheem
Assalaamu’alaikum wa rahmatullah
“Thus, those who love God say, ‘We pray and find rest in our prayer,’ just as their imam, their exemplar, their Prophet [saw] had said, ‘O Bilal relieve us with the prayer’, but never ‘relieve us from it’. He [saw] also said, ‘My source of gladness has been put in the prayer.’ How, then, can one who finds his gladness in prayer find it elsewhere? And how can he endure without it?
The prayer of someone who is present with his heart and finds his source of gladness therein ascends with its light and its proof, until by it the servant meets the Most Merciful, and the prayer says, ‘May God, Most High, watch over you just as you have watched over me!’ But the prayer of the careless man who ignores its rules, limits and proper humility is folded up like a piece of cloth and thrown back in his face. His prayer says to him, ‘May God cast you away just as you have cast me away!’
A hadith marfu’ narrated by Bakr bin Bishr, from Sa’id ibn Sinan, from Abu l-Zahiriya, from Ibn Shajara, from ‘Abd Allah ibn ‘Umar states:
There is no believer who completes his ablution at its proper place, then stands for prayer at the proper time and offers it to God Almighty, omitting nothing from its time, bowings, prostrations or form, except that his prayer is taken from him up to God Almighty in a radiant white light which illuminates everything, from east to west, until it stops before God, the Most Merciful. But the prayer of the one who stands for it without having completed the ablution, who delays it beyond its time and robs it of its bowings, prostrations and form, is taken from him with darkness that does not rise above the hair on his head. And his prayer says, ‘May God cast you away as you have case me away. May He cast you away as you have cast me away.‘
Extract: The Invocation of God; Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyya; page 27-28
Continuation from: http://cityisoc.com/2474-prayer-3/ [link to part 3, in which you'll find a link to part 2, in which you'll find a link to part 1. =) insha'Allah.]
We ask Allah [swt] to grant us truth on our tongues, sincerity in our hearts and Paradise by His Mercy. Indeed Allah [swt] is a witness over us, and Allah knows best.
In the care of Allah [swt]
Wassalaamu’alaikum wa rahmatullah
Related Posts
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
[...] Prayer #4 [...]