You have to be at college at 8 am, and you live about 10 minutes away from college, so you try to leave your house at 7:45 am so that you can easily get there, and be at your lecture-hall at 7:59 ready to roll. If you leave your house at 7:45 am, do you wake up at 7:40 and roll out of bed and get ready? No – you dont do that! Typically, if you have to leave your home at 7:45 am, how much earlier would you wake up? The average answer is 45 minutes. Some people take a little bit less and others a little bit longer. Why do you wake up 45 minutes before? You would say it is your studies and is important. You have to wake up and brush, shower, clean and comb, eat something, pack your stuff and dress nicely. You have to take it seriously. That is why you invest the time and give it importance and treat it as something important.How you prepare for it shows the importance. It is an event and you prepare for it. Compare this to ṣalātl-fajr. I realize that is the most drastic comparison. Let me explain to you the proceedings of ṣalātl-fajr. First, before you sleep you have the route from your bed to the sink completely mapped out so that you can get do it with your eyes closed. Why? When you wake up for fajr, you dont like to turn on all of the lights because it takes the sleepiness away and you want to pray fajr and go to sleep. You make it to the sink and have perfected the art of the 15 second wuḍū – it is like a magic trick. You make your way back over to your bed, and you pray next to your bed and then engage in a procedure I like to call: stop, drop and roll over. You would pray on your bed if possible. How sad is that? That is the condition of our prayers. For there to be khushu in our prayers, we need to start giving salah its due importance. - Ustad Abdul Nasir Jangda (Adapted)
Posted on: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 18:12:21 +0000
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