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Imagine Your Mind Like Tea In A Cup

Approach your Salah in peace, pray it in peace, finish it in peace and you will get peace. When your mind is spinning with your daily activities and thoughts, you must allow a few moments to calm down before starting to pray. Imagine your mind like tea in a cup that has been stirred around: when you take the stirrer out from the tea, it does not stop spinning immediately, it takes a few moments. Likewise, before your Salah, stop what you are doing and relax for a few moments. Attend to the lavatory if you need to, and then make wudu, properly. Make sure your hair is done and clothes are tidy, free of any dirt: after all, you will be presenting yourself before the Master of the Universe in a few moments. Give the Adhan if it has not already been given, then stand up to pray your Sunnah Salah. After your Sunnah Salah, stay sitting in your place for a short while and make some remembrance of Allah. Once you are relaxed and ready for your main, obligatory Salah, get up to pray it, slowly and taking your time between the various actions of the Salah. You should do your best to pray when you are physically, mentally and spiritually relaxed. When the Salah is over, do not get up and run, but rather stay sitting for a few moments until you have completed your after Salah tasbih. Allah says "Maintain with care the (obligatory) prayers, and the middle prayer, and stand before Allah devoutly obedient". (Qur'an: Surah 2 AI-Baqarah, Ayat 238)

posted by islam on the net @ 03:55