Be Mindful of Khushoo{qushuuc}
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 1:48 pm
Asalaam aleikum, brothers and sisters, Allah said....
"Successful indeed are the believers, those who offer their salah (prayers) with all solemnity and full submissiveness."
Al-Muminun (The Believers)
Chapter 23: Verses 1-2
Khushoo means calmness, serenity, tranquillity, dignity and humility. What makes a person have this khushoo is fear of Allah and the sense that He is always watching. Khushoo means that the heart stands before the Lord in humility and submission.
Salah (prayer) is the greatest of the practical pillars of Islam, and khushoo (humility and attentiveness) in prayer is required by shariah (Islamic law). When Iblees (Satan), the enemy of Allah, vowed to mislead and tempt the sons of Adam and said “Then I will come to them from before them and behind them, from their right and from their left…†[Surah al-Araf 7:17], one of his most significant plots became to divert people from salah by all possible means and to whisper to them during their prayer so as to deprive them of the joy of this worship and cause them to lose the reward for it. As khushoo will be the first thing to disappear from the earth, and we are living in the last times, the words of Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) are particularly pertinent to us: “The first thing of your religion that you will lose is khushoo, and the last thing that you will lose of your religion is Prayer. There may be a person praying who has no goodness in him, and soon you will enter the mosque and not find anyone who has khushoo.â€Â
The site of khushoo is the heart, and its effects are manifested in the physical body. The various faculties follow the heart: if the heart is corrupted by negligence or insinuating whispers from Satan, the worship of the body’s faculties will also be corrupt. The heart is like a king and the faculties are like his troops who follow his orders and go where they are commanded. If the king is deposed, his followers are lost, which is like what happens when the heart does not worship properly.
Asalam aleikum.
"Successful indeed are the believers, those who offer their salah (prayers) with all solemnity and full submissiveness."
Al-Muminun (The Believers)
Chapter 23: Verses 1-2
Khushoo means calmness, serenity, tranquillity, dignity and humility. What makes a person have this khushoo is fear of Allah and the sense that He is always watching. Khushoo means that the heart stands before the Lord in humility and submission.
Salah (prayer) is the greatest of the practical pillars of Islam, and khushoo (humility and attentiveness) in prayer is required by shariah (Islamic law). When Iblees (Satan), the enemy of Allah, vowed to mislead and tempt the sons of Adam and said “Then I will come to them from before them and behind them, from their right and from their left…†[Surah al-Araf 7:17], one of his most significant plots became to divert people from salah by all possible means and to whisper to them during their prayer so as to deprive them of the joy of this worship and cause them to lose the reward for it. As khushoo will be the first thing to disappear from the earth, and we are living in the last times, the words of Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) are particularly pertinent to us: “The first thing of your religion that you will lose is khushoo, and the last thing that you will lose of your religion is Prayer. There may be a person praying who has no goodness in him, and soon you will enter the mosque and not find anyone who has khushoo.â€Â
The site of khushoo is the heart, and its effects are manifested in the physical body. The various faculties follow the heart: if the heart is corrupted by negligence or insinuating whispers from Satan, the worship of the body’s faculties will also be corrupt. The heart is like a king and the faculties are like his troops who follow his orders and go where they are commanded. If the king is deposed, his followers are lost, which is like what happens when the heart does not worship properly.
Asalam aleikum.
.asalam