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Opinion Of the Scholar About Prayer?

On Friday Oct 03 the world renowned Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani gave a speech on the importance of observing the daily prayers with sincerity and love. Here is just a gist of what was spoken in Fenton US. Prayers are the zones where you are most near to Allah swt to ask Him what you need. “In it , feeha yatasa” “feeha ma yaleeq min al – asrar- in it all kinds of secrets lies within in the prayer itself. Allah swt will open whatever secrets or blessings to His servant when he is praying and no one will know what lies within a specific prayer. Actually many people approach prayer through problems and when they face difficulties. Salathul al Haajjah is a prayer of fulfilling a need and the person who gets what he wanted forgot that the solution is from Allah swt. It is also important to ask a need from your heart not just merely ask by raising your hands as Allah swt says that He will respond to our calls in the Al Quran. In order to see whether our prayer is working for us is the effec...

Quality Prayer -Prologue

I want to start a series of posts on prayer. “Prayer is the coolness of my eyes” said the Prophet PBUH. Every word of the Prophet is as true as the Holy Quran. How can prayer be soothing to him yet a boring “ritual” to most of us. If you ask a muslim to choose between a “going to the cinema” and "going to the mosque", the most likely urge is to choose the former. That is the reality of this age. Prayer is losing its popularity among muslims. The real reason is that we “cannot” see God in our prayer. If you are using the computer now can you ask this simple question - where is the electrical power coming from? The answer will be it is from the power socket. It is from the circuit distribution board, from the switch room, from the distribution center, from the power supply, from the power generator. One broken link in that chain and your computer will be useless. Similarly, if you cannot see Allah swt in your prayer – your link is broken and you are stuck in the boredom of rit...