Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Q&A Concentration in Prayer With a Scattered Brain Syndrome

So I've got a lengthy discussion on this on on the website zum,

zum, academy.com. I don't know how many minutes it is, but it's a

lengthy discussion of always I'll just briefly repeat some of that

that was done with a lot of detail. So you can always go on.

It's called How to develop concentration prayer, or something

like that. We'll find the title for you. But essentially the first

thing, right, the first thing is do a good Wuhu. A lot of us think

that we'll do is just an arbitrary idea you do a good will do. That's

going to impact the prayer. Right? There's a spiritual impact of

that.

Of course, having nice, decent, you know, pure clothing,

concentrated space, these are all physical aspects. Then, one of the

biggest things which a lot of us are missing, which is probably the

most crucial thing is that we need to understand the meanings of what

we're reading.

This is one of the biggest reasons of the deprivation of that

concentration, because we don't even know reading.

Like, how do you get focused on what you're reading, you have to

do so much more to do that.

That's why learn what Allahu Akbar means, I guess we know that. Learn

what the Fatiha means. And the 510 15 sutras that we read. The

versus gon get a gist of them at least what does

the ILA feel Quraysh LM thorough que for what story is it talking

about? Even if you can't learn word to word meaning that's fine,

just get a general idea. So at least when you're reading alum,

Torah K for it's not to be read just like that. The idea was that

you would remember, remember this army of Allah subhanaw taala of

the small beings that came and destroyed is to give you hope.

To show the power of Allah, the awesomeness of him, cool who Allah

who I had to reiterate, revive Otto hate,

could also be a bill for the Colorado bureau of bananas

understand that Allah is the one to seek refuge from he's the

protector of all. There's huge benefits in that. So you have to

then all let us be heard as well. What a semi Allah Who Lehmann

Hamidah, Samia, Samia, Allah, who Lehmann Hamidah, who Allah has

listened to the one who's praised them, because we've just a Robina

local hand, our Lord all praises for you. So Hannah, Robbie, LLVM,

Subhana, Allah, Allah, you're going into such that the lowest

you can get, you're saying, Glorified is my Lord who is most

high? There's a very specific reason why these words are

mentioned. So to focus on that prayer, that's the main thing that

essentially, if you can just do that, inshallah that will help, of

course, to not be distracted. Right? Not to be distracted. The

problem is that we are a distracted generation. Have you

ever seen in history? Right? in history? Have you ever seen

somebody? Very few probably ever done what we're doing today?

That's probably why there's holes in brains. According to some

research, our brains become like Swiss cheese with holes inside,

why? Can you imagine it? Just just thinking about this today,

actually,

a guy sitting there. And he is holding 10 conversations at once.

There's 10 people sitting around him. And this guy is saying

something. So he's part of that, then this guy saying then has to

run here, then he has to run there. This is what we do on

WhatsApp, and Twitter and everything. We're constantly

checking, we give a response, then we go somewhere else, we give a

response, or we just learn what they're saying. We just read what

they're saying, we go back, he said something, can you imagine

the hard work that your brain has to do? Just to do that, and it's

not natural. Never in history has it probably been natural to speak

to probably more than two people at once, even a hips class teacher

who probably is the most proficient in this regard, who can

listen to two students at once. But that's kind of by alternating

and filling in the gaps because they're half is, that's probably

why they can do that three people is impossible. You're gonna miss

out something. And it's matter, the students are going to get very

excited.

For people, it's impossible, they've actually done, they've

done I remember, one once went to a science and economy there was

Ontario Science Center, or it was somewhere else in the world. And

just to understand how the brain functions actually gave you two

headphones, and had different sounds coming from both different

voices. How can you process that information? You can't? This is

exactly what we're doing. Can you imagine what that's going to do to

your brain when you're doing this for hours on end every day? When I

say I was on a you don't do it, you may not do for three hours

together. But you will probably do it five minutes, 10 minutes, 15

minutes and then do a bit of work and then do it again. Your mind is

constantly jumping from one place to the other is so bad for you.

Because because of this whole COVID thing. I've had to get more

online, because I'm dealing with a lot of questions, a lot of

feedback on things, a lot of comments because it's an ever

changing situation. You know, people said hostile is, you know,

impossible. Some people still saying that. I'll say no, it's

completely safe.

or it is safe and so on. It's just constant. So I'm having to get

more on there respond to people, people want questions. And I was

like, What's going on here? You know, just five groups of five

different questions. I call you juggling between them. That is so

bad for your brain. Like, it's just no doubt about it.

Now, if you've got that, how are you going to have concentration in

your prayer? When you're in prayer, your brain is addicted

now. Not because you want it to be. Believe me. Nobody even thinks

of this as an addiction addiction. They don't want it to be an

addiction. They say it's not an addiction, but it is an addiction.

So even when you're praying, how can you concentrate? How can you

continue to work this productivity has gone down, because we're just

constantly jumping from one place to the other the mind is as used

to jumping, jumping, jumping,

as seriously something that we really need to think about. I just

thought about this today. I was like, Man, this is detrimental. I

have to get off this.

So that's the way to get concentration and to ask ALLAH

SubhanA wa Tada.