Amjad Tarsin – Getting to the Root Cause of Distraction in Your Salah

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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