Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – How to Attain Concentration in Prayer

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Anyway, so now, how to develop concentration in prayer. So

firstly

these are the things that we should focus on before the prayer.

Identify, what is it that that's distracting us in the prayer?

Right, what is distracting us in the prayer? And try to eliminate

that? Is it that it's our business accounting? Right? Are we just

worried about our customers? Are we worried maybe we're a taxi

driver, and we just worried about who if the if the other guy's

taking the calls properly or not? Right and doing their work

properly or not? We're maybe missing a customer, is it that

we've got just some problem on our mind all the time. And in order

Shaytaan, The shaytaan the Hubby, the accursed, you know what he

does, he will remind us of the last sin that we committed in the

prayer, especially if it's a pleasurable sin. Right? Many sins

are pleasurable. That's why we do right. Drinking, looking,

whatever, right, whatever the Haram is, and you may have

forgotten all about as soon as you start the prayer. In Wait, you go

in Roku,

or such that that's when he reminds you

because Roku and says that I like them some of the most important

parts of the prayer, right? Because that's when you're in the

closest to Allah subhanaw taala. There's a hadith leucine, which

mentions that the closest to seven is to Allah is in such that. So he

wants to spoil that. So remind you of the sin, and you start

remembering her or him or whatever it is, right? Or the thing, or

whatever it is. And that's what is your prayer.

Identify the factors that will cause this problem to happen, and

try to eliminate them. Now, some factors will not be eliminated,

you've got an ongoing business or an ongoing issue, you can't

eliminate it. But what you can do is you can sit down and try to

clear the mind and meditate on what's coming. If you just kind of

jump up Allahu Akbar, and you start, you bring everything with

it, it's try to leave everything behind focus on something just for

that moment. In fact, think to Allah subhanaw taala these

problems that I have this issue that I have these distractions

that I have, if I pray properly, and the Prophet sallallahu Sallam

has mentioned that whoever connects himself with Allah

subhanaw taala, Allah will make his other connections with

everybody else easy, and simple and smooth for him. If you think

that way, you'll actually benefit from it. Because then logically,

intellectually, you're convincing yourself that this is the best way

to do it. Right? There is no point me carrying my baggage into the

prayer.

So one is remove the distractions.

If it's a physical like noise outside or whatever, then find a

room that is not like that, if it's things around you, a lot of

the time having your phone around you is really bad today. Right?

Because even while you're sitting here, I guarantee you there's only

a few of you have probably not checked their email,

or their WhatsApp. What's the latest? What's going on? It's just

so so if it's there, and you hear the people you hear that you see

the flush? Like who knows who's that? Who's that? Right? It's just

a big problem. So try to just keep all of that eliminated a friend of

mine, I mean, you know, everybody doesn't have the luxury of this.

But a friend of mine, what he was able to do is he actually had a

separate room in the house. Nothing around the walls, just

masala and some speeches and things like that. And it was it

was called a prayer room. So he made it for serenity. Do you see

what I'm saying? So make, it's actually recommended to have a

muscle Masjid of the house.

You know, especially for women, right, but for men as well,

because the prostate also said Don't make your house like

graveyards and the meaning of that. One of the biggest

interdomain main interpretations of that is do not pray everything

in a masjid where you don't pay anything in the house. Because

prayer brings baraka and prophets Allah will always know often were

prayed in the house. You never prayed. Now I feel in the masjid.

But you try to do that. I don't advise it. Because you go from the

masjid go home and something distracts you and your Sooners

will go right you want to use sadness, but do try to make salads

in the home as well for men as well. The women, many of them are

praying in the home anyway, right away. You don't go to the masjid.

You pray in the home, but the men should also bring the home because

it's a Baraka that's created by that.

Number two, the second thing is from before learn the meaning of

what you read in the prayer. So essentially what Allahu Akbar

means semi Allah Who human Hamidah Allah has heard him who has

praised him Robina local hand. Oh my lord For You is all Praise

Subhana Allah Allah subhanaw taala Alim Glorified is my Lord. Allah

Allah the most the highest Subhana Allah Aleem, Glorified is my lord

the majestic

When you're reading that in such that with that meaning in your

mind, it's different from just being so humble. And so Mr.

Williams formula idiom three times. So learn the meanings and

ponder over it. And then learn the meanings of the last 10 sutras

that you know you frequently read or whatever you read, you know,

parts of your scene, whatever you read in, learn the meaning of that

and try to focus on that, right. So you have to, obviously do all

of these things from before, relieve yourself from mental

stress, sit down and meditate for a while, read a few Ascar. Calmly

relax yourself, have a have a break for a few minutes just to

make a barrier between your normal mundane daily life, and what

you're about to do have a transition in like they make you

wait in a waiting room for a while. It's just to make a barrier

to make a buffer zone between what you're doing, clear your mind, get

ready for the next put on good clothing.

The other mentioned that it's actually my crew to pray in any

clothes that you wouldn't want to be seen outside with, because

you're standing in front of Allah subhanaw taala. Right. So what are

these things actually help because you're giving more Allah will open

it up even more if you're showing him these things.

And

the clearer your intention is for prayer, we I want to do this while

I'm standing in front of Allah, the better the prayer will be.

Then finally, during the prayer itself, this was all pre prayer,

during the prayer itself.

Make sure that we discipline ourselves in our actions, cut out

all of the mistakes, we're making, educate ourselves about the best

way to do it. stand upright with a soft and heart, right, that we're

doing this for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala. And as the Sahaba

some Sahaba used to mention stand as though this is your last

prayer. That if this was to be my last prayer, then how would it be?

I'd make it the best. So make every prayer of ours like that.

And I think slowly, slowly, it will become a habit. It will be

very difficult in the beginning. May Allah give us the to all the

Tofik for this.

And

don't pray haste in haste. Haste is from the shaytaan relax in your

prayer. Take each action slowly, even when you're going down.

Allahu Akbar, no, like Allahu Akbar. Right? Send me Allah holy

man. Hamidah. So take it easy, relax, savor every prayer that we

make every word that we read, every movement that we that we

express in front of Allah subhanaw taala.

Remember that, in this case, you are actually in front of Allah

subhanaw taala the prophets Allah was almost taken up in his

ascension to the seven heavens. And it's mentioned in the Hadith,

that the prayer is the ascension of the believers. That's when we

talk to Allah subhanaw taala.

And

your mind will wander, but keep bringing it back, your mind will

wander, keep bringing it back. That is why we pray five. That is

why we make solid so many times that it needs to be learned. You

can't go in a gym and start lifting a certain amount. You

start slowly, right? Likewise, with sparring or anything you

learn you develop salad has to be learned. So if we feel that our

salad is really bad, don't worry about it, as that feeling is good

that you even recognize this bed. So try to make it better in each

subsequent one. And after the prayer, there's also a post prayer

aspect to this right to really make the benefits of it linger and

sustain. And the way to do that is don't just rush away after the

prayer.

Sit there and do the vicar that have been related the remembrances

that have been related after the solid Allahumma and the salaam of

Allah, you are the source of peace. You are peace, when Minka

Sullivan from you comes all peace.

About the little jewelry will Iran bless it, are you Oh, one of great

majesty, and benevolence. And then read is still far three times a

stop federal law, stop federal law stop federal law. Why do we read a

stick for three times? It's soon because we may have had some

shortcoming in the prayer. Our mind may have wandered, we may

have not done everything optimally. So read so far, three

times just Allah forgive me for that. That's why we read you know,

some people might be one you've just done a good deed. Why are you

reading so far after it is because we might have some shortcoming in

that regard.

It may not be perfect.

And then

ask Allah earnestly to accept this prayer. Because we don't know if

it's accepted or not. We don't get a you know, we don't get it.

Something you can check online. Yeah, that one was accepted. That

one was an accepted do that one again. You know, that one was nine

out of 10, four out of 10 We don't do that. So we have to just ask

Allah and hope for the best. But if we're trying our best and we're

asking Allah subhanaw taala to help them to accept then that will

make a difference. Insha Allah.

Allah Houma are in the clinical we're shoe Creek warehouse near a

bar that this is another door that you could make. There's a number

of doors that are mentioned, right? Oh, Allah helped me assist

me to remember you

And to thank you and to do good worship of you. If that door is

accepted, our Salah becomes perfect because Allah will help us

then to perfect our prayer.

Then there's other of God that we can read SubhanAllah 33 times

Alhamdulillah 33 times Allahu Akbar 33 This is all to put the

cherry on the top. This is all to enhance it to beautify it. Right?

And you know why we make Knuffle prayers and Sunnah prayers after

the press. If there's any shortcoming in our fourth which is

an obligation, then by doing the Sunnah prayers, if in the

hereafter were taken to task for our for the Sooners should be able

to complete it. That okay, we've had some problems here. But look,

he's got all of these additional bonus points. Let's put them on

there. So let's try to make sure we do our sunnah and knuffel

prayers as well.

Right? And to tell the truth, there was a I was sitting with a

great scholar just some time ago, and he said that

if you can't make your Knuffle prayers of the day, then what is

the purpose of this life? And I think the older you get, right,

the more serious you become.

You really start thinking that I'm trying to achieve what I do buy

through university, through work through employment, through

business, whatever it is, I'm doing, but if I even as a scholar,

right, even going even even as a welfare worker, even as somebody

who's in Dawa, right, you're doing all of this external data. But if

at the end of the day, we can't come back and do our Tahajjud

prayer, or we can't get up in the morning, right mid morning

Schrock, prayer to have prayer and forget those we can't even do as

soon as in knuffel property or even our solid property the what

is the purpose of it.

Just think like that for a moment. Because whatever we get for this

world is going to be limited until our death, but this prayer and

that is going to be what's in the hereafter. There's a person a

Sahabi was sitting there with a sort of Lhasa low Salam. And he

said to Rasul Allah.

I want more Africa, takaful Jana, I want your companionship in the

hereafter. Suppose that awesome said, Are you sure?

So you could ask for something else? says no, that is what I want

to ask. I want your companionship in Jana. So what the promise loves

him told him is okay. But you need to help me.

Right? You need to help me to do that with a lot of sadness, with a

lot of frustration, meaning, your your solid, that includes your

frustration is going to get you to be close to me.

Right? So we can't dis you know, we have times when we're young,

really busy. We need to start thinking that it's not worth it.

If we don't get this, right. And the great thing is that if we're

doing these things, if we're making tahajjud. We're doing these

prayers properly. And our business is not going right we die tomorrow

in whatever situation we die. May Allah forbid, may Allah protect us

from sudden and unsavory deaths. But regardless of how we die,

we're going to, we'll feel content, that at least I've been

doing these things, I've got things saved up. You know, like

people save up for a rainy day. So you at least feel comfortable. And

that feeling of comfort is so important. It will help us on our

deathbed. When we say the last words, if we feel comfortable that

yeah, I'm leaving this world, you won't have a sense of loss,

because you'll think when I have been trying, so you'll feel like

I'm going with something. Otherwise, if we always haven't

been trying, and we're about to die. That sense of hustler and

loss is really really detrimental. And may Allah subhanaw taala

protect us from an evil ceiling state. That's what you could sue

will hajima

right evil seeding states, we want personal hardship which is called

the good and blessed seeding state. May Allah give that to all

of us.

And especially after fajr and Maghrib right morning and evening,

there's something you can read seven times Allahu jedynie Mina

NAR, Allah Who a journeyman and NAR Allah Who journeyman and not

Allah who didn't even a knob, Allah homogeny Mina, not Allah who

didn't even and not Allah Who journeyman and not seven times, oh

Allah give me refuge from the Hellfire give me refuge from the

Hellfire seven times Fajr and Maghrib. And we do it every day.

If one even one of those was accepted in literally, that's it.

We've got delivery from the hellfire. Right. And normally a

person who can do these things slowly, slowly the other aspects

of their life will become better. There was a person who'd been who

drank who there was a person who committed a sin one was he had

kissed a girl, right

I'm unlawful, right? So he went and prayed he came back in the

province of Alaska and told him your salad has has cleared that

out. Now, that doesn't mean you can go around doing that and go

mix a lot and it's all done and dusted. That was with the prophets

of Allah some his salad must have been something and there was a

process in there to tell him to otherwise you know, if somebody

tries to misuse this, that yeah, I can go around flirting around and

go mix a lot and he'll be fine. It doesn't work that way. Right.