Amjad Tarsin – Getting to the Root Cause of Distraction in Your Salah
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The speaker discusses the importance of distracting one's mind and cutting off certain thoughts to avoid harming one's health. They also mention the use of a ring as a symbol of freedom and the use of the holy month as a way to uproot one's mind. The speaker emphasizes the need to uproot one's mind to avoid harming one's health.
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You have to look at these things that are occupying your mind that
busy you, and you have to say, where is the source from which
they're coming from? And Imam Al Hazari says, the things that busy
you are the things that you find important. You're not going to
think about things that are not important to so he says. And then
you realize that those things that are important to you, if they're
distracting you in the Salah
and they're they seem more important in that moment than what
you're actually in. He says that those stem from your desires.
Those thoughts stem from what's important to you, what's important
to you? If it's getting in the way of your Salah, it stems from your
Shah. What stems from your desires for you are at the minister who
bin newsore until keshavat, wakatay Till kala ALA. So then the
way that a person disciplines the nafs is by cutting off those
attachments. Is really trying to uproot those desires and cutting
off those attachments. And really that is freedom.
You know, now, even in a material sense, people are talking about,
you know, minimalism and things of that nature. You know, what you
own owns you and not living like like that anymore, but actually
realizing that there's so many more meaningful things, even in a
worldly sense, more than all of these things that occupy us. So
you have to get to the root of it and cut that out. Fakulam salatihi
fahu. Well, good dodiny, because everything that distracts that
person in his Salah is contradictory to his Deen,
and it is the soldiers of Iblis and one of his Muslims, enemies
for IMSA Raji. So holding on to that thing, and he mentions the
story of the Prophet sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam, and this is for
us to learn that the Messenger of Allah had a ring. And when he was
giving the he delivered the Khutba, and he would look at his
new ring, salallahu alayhi wa alayhi wa sallam, and then he
said, This ring has distracted me. And he gave it away, salallahu
alayhi salam, to teach us how you break those attachments.
And if this is getting in the way, I'm going to give it away. I don't
need them. And that way I will be light before Allah subhanahu wa.
And
then finally,
he tells us a few stories of some of the sahaba. So about
Salafi, haitu fi shaja, the Abu talaha, he was praying in an
enclosed place where he had some trees there. So as he was praying,
he saw a little bird that flew from the trees, and he was
impressed by the beauty of the bird. So he said that his eyesight
followed the bird a man. So when he was done, he mentioned to the
Messenger of Allah the tribulation that he was afflicted with.
Look at the level of the sahama. It's a bird flying the tribute,
but he's this God in the way of my salah. So this is one of my
enemies and one of the things that is harming my Deen. So then he
said to the Prophet salallahu, alayhi wa sallam, I give away that
those trees in that area that I was praying in, that I own. I give
it away. Sadaqah for the sake of Allah, subhana. I don't want it
anymore. He let go of it
and another, another man did the same thing, and he gave it to
Sayyidina Rahman ibn Affan, and Sayyidina Rathman ibn Affan sold
that garden for 50,000
dirhams or Dinas that he sold it for 50,000
it was very valuable. He got rid of it
because it got in the way of his name.
So we have to really Imam Al hazali, he's going deep. If you
want to uproot the tree that is bearing rotten fruit, you have to
uproot it,
if I can add it in thicket. So they did that so they could cut
off the source of all of these passing thoughts, and also as an
expiation for their shortcomings in the Salah. So this is the
medicine. This is the treatment. And it is bitter, it is difficult,
but this is the treatment, because what we mentioned about forcing
your nafs to listen to what's being said in the Salah. That's a
temporary, easier approach, and it won't solve the problem long term.
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