Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Q&A Attaining Concentration During Dhikr
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The speaker discusses the importance of focusing during the day to avoid distractions and focus on the mind. They explain that the practice of mind management is crucial for Muslims, as it is necessary for optimal focus and mind management. The speaker also emphasizes the benefits of dedicating time and getting used to the practice of mind management.
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As salam o alaikum, Islam, what is up? Please, can you provide some
tips on cleaning the mind during Morocco, I think cleaning the mind
during Morocco, but is something which comes over time. Reason is
that we have to actually learn to focus focus on focusing on
anything is a challenge for I would probably say maybe most
people today, focusing on anything because we're so used to being
distracted. And our brain is actually hardwired now, because of
our habit. It's become kind of hardwired to be distracted,
because the phone is the biggest culprit. In that sense. What
happens is that whenever we're doing anything, because we have
this addiction towards finding out if we've received the new message
on WhatsApp, or anywhere else, then even when we're doing
whatever we'd like to just, let's just check quickly. So our brain
is almost like every few seconds or every minute or something it
wants to check. So maraca requires focus, because maraca is from the
heart. It's not just the movement of the tongue with certain types
of God, it's actually thinking about allowing the heart. So
you're either doing it or you're not. So in order to do that in a
sustained way, 1015 minutes or even five minutes, we need to be
able to focus. So initially, what's going to happen is that you
try to focus mind goes away, you focus again, your mind goes away,
you focus again, there's some ways of helping with that is that if
you do have a,
especially for beginners, if you if you have a one of those alarms,
or beeps, not not a big alarm, but just like something that beeps
lightly on your phone or elsewhere, put all other
notifications of just the beep that beeps like every maybe 30
seconds or every minute, it just just quick beep. So if the mind
has strayed, then that beep reminds us that you should be
focusing. So we come back faster. Otherwise, sometimes our Daydream
that we go into could last for two minutes. And you might be just
sitting down for five minutes or 10 minutes. So that sometimes
helps to just remember that, hey, I'm supposed to be more likeable.
And of course, there's lots of other things beforehand, because
from an Islamic point of view, holistically speaking, there's
many, many other issues. The food that we eat, that helps because
haram food or doubtful food or weird food,
not cooked with baraka and blessing. All of that is obviously
going to eating out too much. These kinds of things, not because
eating out food necessarily is always unhealthy from a physical
perspective, but it's just the fact that who's cooking it, how
they're cooking it, what are they cooking it for? What's the
intention behind it, all of this for Muslims, spiritually speaking,
at least makes a difference. So there's a lot of other things,
things that we've been thinking about in in during the day, the
time of day that we're doing the best probably time of day to do
this is early in the morning when there are no distractions.
So there's so many factors, there are just so many factors then to
sit down and then to get the presence of mind to ask Allah
subhanaw taala For Focus, all of these things, inshallah will be
useful. But again, it has to come over time. It's a practice, it's a
training. And it's an effort, and it has to come over time, and it
won't come just altogether. They say that for some people, it's
like digging a well, they say, digging a well for water, trying
to find water. For some people, they'll find it in 20 meters,
they'll find it some in 30 meter, sometimes they'll just have to dig
deeper and deeper, which means that it's just more sustained. But
we ask Allah for two feet, but one thing we have to remember is that
even if you don't get full concentration, at least the
benefit is that we're getting ourselves accustomed to sitting
for 1015 20 minutes, whatever it is, for thicker, even if with
negligence, that in itself is a bigger benefit than not sitting at
all, because first we have to get used to actually dedicating time.
So if you can't dedicate five or 10 minutes or 15 minutes to Allah,
then how can we expect concentration concentration is a
second level and that's understood. That's why if not Isla
and others, they make it very clear that if you do have a
sustained period of
at least engaging the tongue or engaging yourself a time for the
sake of Allah, then slowly slowly, you will eventually ascend to the
point where you will do it with focus, then you will do it with
Presence of Allah subhanaw taala So may Allah subhanaw taala give
us this dough features like Allah here for the question.