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<title><![CDATA[Har Vi Bra Khushu?]]></title>
<link>http://islamgbg.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/har-vi-bra-khushu/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mrdawah</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Jag har valt att nämna några historier från våran salaf. hur nära dom bad till Allah hur deras hjärt]]></description>
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Jag har valt att nämna några historier från våran salaf.<br />
hur nära dom bad till Allah hur deras hjärtan och själ var i bönen.<br />
vi måste påminna oss om att du och jag vi är bara en av 1.5 billioner människor som vill att Allah skall vara nöjd över dom på domedagen. bönen är allt!<br />
Må Allah ge oss en stark bön ett starkt band till Han subhanu wa ta3laa och stå bland dom som har hans barmhärtighet på domedagen.</p>
<p>när khalaf  bin Ayub blev frågad.<br />
&#8220;varför smäller du inte till fluger när du ber, stör dom dig inte?&#8221;<br />
han sa, &#8220;Jag vill inte göra något som kan bli en vana och därför förstöra bönen för mig.&#8221; han blev frågad hur han har tålmod i den sitvationen. han svarade &#8221; Jag blev informerad om att syndrana har tålamod när dom blir straffade av muslimska myndigheten och till och med skryter om hur dom har tålmod i den sitvationen. Jag står framför min Herre, skulle jag då röra mig för en fluga?&#8221;</p>
<p>Allah Akbar!</p>
<p>en gång för länge sedan var Abdullah An-Nuba imam för människorna i staden Tarsus, när kallelse till jihad blev meddelat, men han förkortade inte quran läsningen i bönen och när han var klar sa folk till han &#8221; Kallelse till jihad blev meddelat och du förkortade inte bönen.&#8221; Han svarade &#8221; Jag trode inte det fanns människor som ber,och hör andra grejer i bönen förutom det dom tillber Allah med.&#8221;</p>
<p>La Illha Ill Allah. någon kommer in genom dörren och halva mosken undrar vem det är typ SubhanAllah.</p>
<p>När Abu Talhah RadiyoAllah anho bad en gång på en trädgård han ägde så blev han uptagen med att kolla på en fågel som flög runt hans träd, det slutade med han var förvirad hur många rakah han bet. Han gick till profeten sallalhu aleyhi wa salam och berättade vad som hänt och meddelade han:<br />
O Allahs sändebud (saw) jag ger min trädgård som allmosa, så spendera den hur du vill.</p>
<p>SubhanAllah al Adheem.. en bön och han visste vad som förstörde hans khushu och han offrade det för Allahs skull.</p>
<p>Abu Ishaq As Subayíi sa klagande.<br />
&#8220;Jag har förlorat styrkan att be länge, jag har blivit svag och mina ben är svaga,för dom här dagarna,när jag står i bön kan jag bara recitera surah Al baqarah och Al imran en hel kväll.&#8221;</p>
<p>La Hawla wala qawta ill Billah.. kolla SubhanAllah dom flesta av oss är fast på juzz amma. surah baqarah och al imran Allah Akbar. var är våran kärlek till Allah och till bönen..</p>
<p>Talaq Bin Habib sa &#8221; Jag älskar att stå i bön för Allah tills min ryg gör ont&#8221;</p>
<p>Abdullah bin Masud radiyoAllah anho brukade vara orörlig i bönen så han brukade bli eftreliknad med ett klädes plag som blivit slängt på golvet, medans Saíd bin jubair stog stabilt som en påle.</p>
<p>När Hatim Al-Asamm blev frågad om sin bön sa han.<br />
´&#8221;När det är nära tiden av bönen, så utför jag en perfekt wudu,och går ditt som jag skall be,och säter mig där till jag blir fullt medveten om vad jag skall göra,sedan ställer jag mig up och ber,föreställer mig att Kaba är framför mina ögon , Paradiset på högersidan, hellvetet på vänstra sidan och Döds Ängeln är bakom mig,jag föreställer mig att det är den sista bönen jag gör,står up i hopp (om Allahs paradis och belöning) och i fruktan (från Allahs straff och hellvetet) jag reciterar Takbir(Allah Akbar) med komplet avsikt. Jag Läser koranen lungt, gör ruku ödmjukt,går ner i sudjood med khushu,sedan sitter jag på mitt vänstra ben,med vänstar fotten på golvet och höger fotten up, hella tiden ber jag med ikhlas(renhet) och efter så vet jag inte (känner mig säker) om ALlah accepterar bönen från mig!&#8221;</p>
<p>Allah Akbar SubhanAllah må ALlah ge oss den sanna Khushu och kärlek för bönen och må Allah acceptera våra böner amin.</p>
<p><em>förlåt mig för min stavning dyselexi janiii.</em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[From the Mimbar of Masjid al-Tawheed:]]></title>
<link>http://obeyd.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/from-the-mimbar-of-masjid-al-tawheed/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Abu Zayd</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[al-Khushoo&#8217;: the Spirit of Salah 1/23/09 with recitation by Shaykh Rajab Is Making Salah a Cho]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Reverence in Salah - Khushu]]></title>
<link>http://4reverts.wordpress.com/2008/11/05/reverence-in-salah-khushu/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Aalya</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Assalam alaikum &amp; peace to all I think we have all struggled with concentration while doing Sala]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Assalam alaikum &amp; peace to all I think we have all struggled with concentration while doing Sala]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA[WHEN IN SALAAT.............]]></title>
<link>http://asqfish.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/when-in-salaat/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>asqfish</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[When we are in Salaat&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; *     Calmness and composure are from Emaan *     ]]></description>
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<p>When we are in Salaat&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</p>
<p>*     Calmness and composure are from Emaan</p>
<p>*     Restlessness is from the Nafs</p>
<p>*     Haste is from Shaytan</p>
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<p><em>(A quote from the retreat on Tazkiyah Nafs 08 with Sheikh Mokhtaar Magroubi)</em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Got Khushu?]]></title>
<link>http://izzatulillah.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/got-khushu/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Abu Salamah</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[June 27th/08 Khutba Sh.Said Rageah 1/3 June 27th/08 Khutba Sh.Said Rageah 2/3 June 27th/08 Khutba Sh]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Al-Khushu' (Demut) &amp; As-Salah (Das Gebet)]]></title>
<link>http://kitabundsunnah.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/al-khushu-demut-as-salah-das-gebet/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Abu-Ibrahim</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Al-Khushu&#8217; bedeutet Ruhe, Klarheit, Beschaulichkeit, Würde und Demut. Khushuu&#8217; wi]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[HOW TO HELP YOURSELF?2:45]]></title>
<link>http://asqfish.wordpress.com/2008/01/25/help-yourself/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>asqfish</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[The Ayah on how to get help. At the women’s afternoon meeting today we reviewed this ayah with Farha]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>The Ayah on how to get help.</p>
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<p>At the women’s afternoon meeting today we reviewed this ayah with Farhat Hashmi’s tafseer. When I got into the car to go back to work, I turned on Mokhtar Magroubi&#8217;s CD on “the inner dimensions of salah” and the first words I heard were this ayah.<br />
It also is the ayah that I repeated to myself in English many many times after Tariq died and found solace in Allah’s promise in it. Though I was neither well versed in the ramifications of the tafseer, not had I paid much attention to the second part of the ayah. <a title="The concept of sabr in islam" href="http://asqfish.wordpress.com/2007/12/29/the-concept-of-sabr-patience-in-islam/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000ff;">Patience</span></a> and Prayer was my mantra when the clouds of desperate grief would begin to gather.<br />
I am grateful to Allah SWT that he threw me a lifeline in my storm of grief and that I am coherent enough to share a succinct explanation of this ayah as I understand it now, after some more review.  I have read different sources and distilled it down to the basic essentials, though to best understand its relationshsip to the preceding and suceeding ayahs should also be examined. However here I only present Surah 2:45:</p>
<p>Quran: 2.045: Three translations in English, none capturing the heart of the essence of the ayah. The tafseer and explanations that follow are from Farhat Hashmi and Sheikh Mokhtar Magroubi.</p>
<p><strong> YUSUFALI: Nay, seek (Allah&#8217;s) help with patient perseverance and prayer: It is indeed hard, except to those who bring a lowly spirit.</strong></p>
<p><strong>PICKTHAL: Seek help in patience and prayer; and truly it is hard save for the humble-minded</strong></p>
<p><strong>SHAKIR: And seek assistance through patience and prayer, and most surely it is a hard thing except for the humble ones.</strong></p>
<p>The method outlined in this ayah for people like me who are laden with grief and other challenges is as follows:<br />
The first step is:<br />
<em>To help yourself! </em><br />
How?<br />
<em>With Allah’s help!</em><br />
How?<br />
<em>Through patience  &#38; prayer</em></p>
<p>What are the prerequisites for the kind of prayer that will support patience and help me?</p>
<p>It is the prayer of the <strong>khashieen</strong> i.e. the people with <strong>‘Khushu’</strong> which is translated by the above three authors in English as pertaining to humility, lowly spirit, &#38; humble minded, none of which really define the essential essence of the word <strong>‘khushu’</strong></p>
<p><strong>Khushu</strong> is something on which reams of literature is available, it is easy to read about but elusive to practice.<br />
Farhat Hashmi defines’<strong> Khushu’</strong> in the tafseer of this ayah as:<br />
<em> “Inner peace leading to outer peace”</em><br />
How to step into <strong>khushu</strong>?<br />
<em>Step one:</em> Prepare the ambience to step into it, with a mindset of shutting out all else, taking care of all emergencies, eating enough so that you don’t think of food, but not enough to make you sleepy, turning off all electronic devices, pretending that you are suspended in the third dimension where you have no access to any one except Allah.</p>
<p><em>Step two: </em>Perform a beautiful wudu with external silence starting with &#8216;<em>Bismillah&#8217; </em>and ending with <em>Ashadu an La illaha illal lah&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</em>put on blinders over your eyes (look down), don’t talk and focus on your upcoming dialogue with Allah (SWT), while proceeding to the musallah.</p>
<p><em>Step three:</em><br />
When you enter into salaat, i.e. when you say <em>“Allah o Akbar”</em> you are negating and demoting all others to a lesser importance verbally and in your heart and mind.<br />
When you say <em>Allah O Akbar,</em> you are seeking sanctuary into Allah’s presence, thus all else has to be left behind, mental, physical and emotional, and all other doors to the heart are to be closed behind us leaving us alone in the sanctuary with Allah SWT</p>
<p><a title="lone-salati.jpg" href="http://asqfish.wordpress.com/files/2008/01/lone-salati.jpg"><img src="http://asqfish.wordpress.com/files/2008/01/lone-salati.jpg" alt="lone-salati.jpg" /></a><br />
<strong>An Example:</strong><br />
We enter into khushu with himaat (focus) the example given by Sheikh Magroubi is that of a group of students taking an examination. No matter what the disturbance, their attention is not deviated from their examination paper. Their aim is to do the best on their examination in the time allotted to them. Their ultimate goal is to pass the examination with flying colors and get their degree to step into the real world.<br />
We have a similar goal to step into the Hereafter if we want to pass our test in this world with flying colors we have to focus. An essential part of that test is our intensity of focus while connecting with our Lord, while we are on this earth.</p>
<p><em>What if we dont have <strong>khushu </strong>when we seek prayer? </em></p>
<p>The last option given in the ayah is the option of those who do not have <strong>khushu</strong>…….for them Allah SWT states that the prayer is very large, heavy (kabeera) and difficult.<br />
What I understand is that if the prayer is not in <strong>Khushu </strong>then it is like something large (kabeera) weighing you down, instead of something light and beautiful lifting you up.</p>
<p>Prayer is practice for standing in front of our Lord and <strong>khushu</strong> is doing it with pleasure, the correct etiquette, dress and demeanor.</p>
<p>It is best to practice Standing in front of Allah in this world as we will be standing in front of him on the Day of Judgment. It is best to learn the protocol now than to appear gauche, uncouth and disrespectful on the Day of Judgment when we stand before Him for a very important interview. (Farhat Hashmi).</p>
<p>In the final analysis, we must help ourselves by asking for help from Allah through patience and prayer and to perform that prayer with <strong>Khushu,</strong> otherwise that prayer will be like a very large and heavy weight on us and difficult and thus will not benefit us in our primary goal of seeking His (SWT) help.</p>
<p>My personal take is that <strong>‘khushu’</strong> does not come all the time and every time. One has to persevere patiently in prayer and focus with the intense desire for <strong>khushu</strong> and then you are lifted.</p>
<p>Like a lock with a combination code, all the right actions have to be lined up for the door to swing open to give entry to the sanctuary of Allah wherein lies HELP.</p>
<p><em>May Allah forgive me for any mistakes that I may have made in understanding or presenting the explanation of this ayah.</em></p>
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<link>http://bmajnun.wordpress.com/2007/11/03/the-5-ps/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>B Majnun</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Proper preparation for prayer is prelude to presence.]]></description>
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