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Bismillahir Rahmaanir Raheem
Assalaamu’alaikum wa rahmatullah

The final instalment from Ibn Al-Qayyim’s rendering of salaah [prayer] in The Invocation of God, pages 25-29. May Allah [swt] make it of benefit to you and me, ameen.
“Prayer, or any other practice, is accepted [by God] when it is offered in a manner that befits [...]

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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 [...]

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Bismillahir Rahmaanir Raheem
 
Assalaamu’alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh
“When the servant stands in prayer, the Devil grows jealous because [in prayer] the servant’s station is supreme, nearest to God and most enraging to the Devil. And so the Devil will try every means to keep him from praying. He will keep coming [...]