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65 TIPS TO BUILD CONNECTION WITH ALLAAH IN SALAAH
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EPISODE 1️⃣7⃣ – ACTIONS DURING SALAAH THAT COULD HELP ATTAIN KHUSHUU’
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🕌 46. Dispelling Insinuating Thoughts from Shaytaan in the Prayer
Abu’l-‘Aas (رضي الله عنه) reported that he said:
“O Messenger of Allaah, the Shaytaan interrupts me when I pray, and I get confused in my recitation.”
The Messenger of Allaah (ﷺ) said, “That is a shaytaan whose name is Khanzab. If you sense his presence, seek refuge with Allaah from him, and spit (dry spitting) towards your left three times.”
Abu’l-‘Aas said: “I did that and Allaah took him away from me.”
[Reported by Muslim, no. 2203].
The Prophet (ﷺ) also told us about another of Shaytaan’s tricks and how to deal with it.
He (ﷺ) said, “When any one of you gets up to pray, the Shaytaan comes and confuses him – i.e. mixes up his prayer and creates doubts in his mind – so that he does not know how many (rak’ahs) he has prayed. If any one of you experiences that, he should do two prostrations whilst he is sitting.”
[Reported by al-Bukhaari, Kitaab al-Sahw, Baab al-Sahw fi’l-Fard wa’l-Tatawwu’].
Ibn ‘Abbas (رضي الله عنه) reported that the Prophet (ﷺ) was asked about a man who thought that he had broken his wudoo’ when he had not done so, the Messenger of Allaah (ﷺ) said: “The Shaytaan may come to any one of you when he is praying and open his buttocks and make him think that he has broken his wudoo when in fact he has not. So, if this happens to any one of you, let him not end his prayer unless he hears the sound of it with his ears or smells the odour of it with his nose.”
[Reported by al-Tabaraani in alKabeer, no.11556, part 11, p. 222. He said in Majma’ al-Zawaa’id, 1/242, its men are the men of Saheeh. Also Muslim 389 reported similar hadith with a different narration].
On this reason, it was said to one of the salaf: “The Jews and Christians say that they do not suffer from the problem of waswaas.”
He said, “They are speaking the truth, for what would the Shaytaan want with a house that is in ruins?”
[Majma’ al-Fataawa, 22/608]
It is as if there are three houses: the house of a king, filled with his treasure and savings, the house of a slave, containing his treasure and savings, and an empty house with nothing in it. If a thief comes to steal from one of the three houses, which one will he choose?
[al-Waabil al-Sayib, p. 43]
The trick of the Shaytan is that he tries to stop him from establishing prayer in the first place, then he continues trying to entice him and make him forget, and “…making assaults on him with his cavalry and infantry” [cf. Al-Isra’ 17:64], until he thinks of prayer as less important, so he starts to neglect it, and eventually gives it up altogether. If the Shaytaan fails to achieve this, and the person ignores him and starts to pray, the enemy of Allaah (ﷻ) will come and try to distract him, by reminding him of things that he did not remember or think of before he started praying. A person may have forgotten about something altogether, but the Shaytaan will remind him of it when he starts praying, so as to distract him from his prayers and take him away from Allaah (ﷻ), so that his heart will no longer be in his prayers, and he will lose out on the honour and reward of Allaah (ﷻ) turning toward him, which is only attained by the one whose heart is really in his prayer.
Thus he will finish his prayer no better off than when he started, with his burden of sins not reduced at all by his salaah, because prayer only expiates for sins when it is done properly, with perfect khushoo’, and the person stands before Allaah (ﷻ) in body and soul.”
[Al-Waabil al-Sayib, p. 36]
To be continued… إن شاء الله
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