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65 TIPS TO BUILD CONNECTION WITH ALLAAH IN SALAAH
EPISODE 2️⃣6⃣ – ACTIONS DURING SALAAH THAT COULD HELP ATTAIN KHUSHUU’
🕌 59. Make Shaytaan Cry by Performing Sujood Al-Tilaawah when Reciting an Aayah where this is Required
Allaah (ﷻ) says:
“وَيَخِرُّونَ لِلْأَذْقَانِ يَبْكُونَ وَيَزِيدُهُمْ خُشُوعًا”
“And they fall down on their faces weeping and it adds to their humility (khushoo’).”
[Al-Israa’ 17:109].
He (ﷻ) describes the Prophets and the righteous as follows:
“إِذَا تُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِمْ ءَايَٰتُ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ خَرُّوا۟ سُجَّدًا وَبُكِيًّا”
“… When the Verses of the Most Beneficent were recited unto them, they fell down prostrating and weeping.”
[Maryam 19:58].
Ibn Katheer (رَحِمَهُ ٱللَّٰهُ) said:
“The scholars agreed that we should prostrate here (when reciting this aayah) so as to follow their example.”
[Tafseer al-Qur’aan al-‘Azeem, 5/238, Daar al-Sha’b edn].
It was reported that the Prophet (ﷺ) prostrated when he recited Surah al-Najm (53) in his prayer.
Al-Bukhaari reported in his Saheeh that Abu Raafi’ said: “I prayed ‘Ishaa’ with Abu Hurayrah (رضي الله عنه) and he recited Idhaa as-samaa’u inshaqqat (al-Inshiqaaq 84) and prostrated. I asked him about it, and he said, ‘I prostrated behind Abu’l-Qaasim (the Prophet) (ﷺ), and I will continue to do so until I meet him again.”
[Saheeh al-Bukhaari, Kitaab al-Adhaan, Baab al-Jahr bi’l-‘Ishaa’].
Abu Hurayrah (رضي الله عنه) said:
“The Messenger of Allaah (ﷺ) said: ‘When the son of Adam observes a sajdah, Shaytaan goes away weeping, saying, “Woe to him! He was commanded to prostrate and he prostrated, so Paradise is his; I was ordered to prostrate and I disobeyed, so Hell is my fate!”
[Reported by Imaam Muslim in his Saheeh, no. 133].
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🕌 60. Recalling How Fearful the Salaf were when they Prayed
Ali ibn Abi Taalib (رضي الله عنه) would be visibly shaken, and the colour of his face would change. It was said to him, “What is the matter with you?’ He said, “By Allaah, there has come the time of the amaanah (trust) which Allaah offered to the heavens and the earth, and the mountains, but they declined to bear it and were afraid of it, but I bore it (Al-Ahzaab 33:72).”
[Silaah al-Yaqazaan li Tard al-Shaytaan, ‘Abd al-‘Azeez Sultaan, p. 209].
Mujaahid (رَحِمَهُ ٱللَّٰهُ) said: “When one of them stood in prayer, he would be too fearful of his Lord to allow his eyes to be drawn to anything, or to turn aside or to fidget by playing with pebbles or anything else or to think of any worldly matter, unless he forgot, during prayer.”
[Ta’zeem Qadr al-Salaah, 1/188]
It was said to Hatim Al-Asam, “How do you pray so well?” Hatim said: “I establish the command, I walk with fear, I begin prayer with a sincere intention, I exalt Allaah with grandeur, I recite with a measured recitation and reflection, I bow with reverence, I prostrate with humility, I sit to complete the testimony, and I invoke peace properly and according to the prophetic tradition. Then I sincerely surrender the prayer to Allaah the Exalted and I return to myself afraid that it will not be accepted from me. I will guard it with effort in this way until I die.”
[Hilyat Al-Awliya 11623]
To be continued… إن شاء الله
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