How to get Khushoo? (by desiring to do the fardh activities)
Two parts to achieve this as follows…
Part A: Strengthen your khushoo add those things: desire to do fardh
- Focus what your say and do.
- Ponder on Quran recitation, dhikr, duaa.
- Remember your speaking to Allah (all seer/hearer) {Ihsaan : worship Him(swt) as if you see Him, and if u cant see him, He can see you.}
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Evaluate yourself…
Rulings on Khushoo:
- Obligatory to have it, people with it will inherit Firdaws.
- Lacking Khushu are sinners, it is wajib.
- Allah promised forgiveness to those who pray 5 salats with khushoo.
Evaluation
- It is impossible to achieve Khushoo without the help of Allaah.
- Being deprived of khushoo’ is nothing short of a calamity, make dua.
- Five Levels of Prayer:
How to gain the only true happiness…
Khushoo’ means calmness, serenity, tranquility, dignity and humility.
Fearing Allah in a calm manner; the heart stands before the Lord in humility and submission. Khushoo linked to the heart; if heart corrupt rest body is also corrupt (eg: king and people, if king is good…people will be good, else king sucks ppl will be messed up too))
- State during salat : Obedience to Allah(swt) by bowing, lower gaze, humble oneself out of fear of Allah(swt)
- Salat is extremely hard except for people who have Khushu
- Shaytans number one project: divert us from Salat; Khushu is first thing that will be lost from our religion.
Concealment of Khushoo:
- Shouldn’t show more khushoo then we feel (its in heart not shoulder)
- Heart feels pure, filled with light of greatness of Allah, desires die b/c of Allah’s fear and “awe which have filled his heart to overflowing so that his physical faculties have calmed down, his heart has become dignified and feels secure in Allaah the remembrance of Him, and tranquillity descends upon him from his Lord. So he has become humble (mukhbit) before Allaah, and the one who is humble is the one who is assured.”
- Empty our heart for prayer; focuses on it exclusive of anything else, and prefer it to everything else. Find joy and comfort.
Relief of the Heart and Body Lies in Obedience to Allaah
By Imaam Ibnul-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah
In this lies a great secret from the secrets of Tawheed. This is that the heart cannot become firm, it cannot find satisfaction and it cannot find tranquility except by reaching out to Him. Everything that is loved and desired besides Him then it must be desired for other than His sake. The One Who is desired, the One Who is beloved in and of Himself, with Whom all matters find their final goal is only one. It is impossible that the final goal be to two destinations just as it is impossible that the beginning of the creation be from two sources.
So the one whose love, desire, will and obedience ends at other than Him then it will be rendered null and void, it will disappear and split off from him no matter how great his need be of it. However the one whose love, desire, will, obedience, awe and reverential fear ends at Him, far removed is He from imperfection, will find himself winning His favours, bliss and rapture, magnificence and splendour, and felicity for eternity.
