33 Ways to Concentrate in your Prayer
By Muhammad Salih al-Munajjid
Translated By Omar Kasir
Publisher: Al-Firdous Publications (2003)
Pages: 74 Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1874263477

Gives advice to the striving for al-khushoo in prayer, discussing:

• Preparing for salah
• Tranquility in salah
• Reciting the Qur'an
• Making sujud
• And much more.

Salaah is the greatest of the practical pillars of Islam, and khushoo’ in prayer is required by sharee’ah. When Iblees, the enemy of Allaah, vowed to mislead and tempt the sons of Adam and said “Then I will come to them from before them and behind them, from their right and from their left…” [al-A’raaf 7:17, interpretation of the meaning], one of his most significant plots became to divert people from salaah by all possible means and to whisper to them during their prayer so as to deprive them of the joy of this worship and cause them to lose the reward for it. As khushoo’ will be the first thing to disappear from the earth, and we are living in the last times, the words of Hudhayfah (may Allaah be pleased with him) are particularly pertinent to us: “The first thing of your religion that you will lose is khushoo’, and the last thing that you will lose of your religion is salaah. There may be a person praying who has no goodness in him, and soon you will enter the mosque and not find anyone who has khushoo’.” (al-Madaarij, 1/521).  (From the Introduction)

'Abu Qutaadah (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: 
'The Prophet  (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: 
'The worst type of thief is the one who steals from his prayer.’ He said, ‘O Messenger of Allaah, how can a person steal from his prayer?’ He said, ‘By not doing rukoo’ and sujood properly.’”
 (Reported by Ahmad and al-Haakim, 1/229; Saheeh al-Jaami’, 997).

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