Amjad Tarsin – Use Your Imagination to Gain Greatness & Closeness in Your Prayer

			This is a statement of hatimal
Assam, one of the great pious
		

			predecessors of Ali Allahu Anhu.
And someone once asked him about
		

			his prayer. So he said, when the
time for prayer enters Asmaa WTO,
		

			I performed the wudu well fully
covering all the limbs and doing
		

			it with presence of heart and
intentionality and recognizing
		

			that this is the key into the
prayer. And I came, and I come to
		

			the pray, the place where I am
going to pray, and I actually sit
		

			there. I'm going to talk about
this shortly. I sit there until I
		

			am collected,
		

			that I become collected, summa,
akumu, Ina, salati. Then I stand
		

			to prayer. So then I place the
karda. And this is a way of using
		

			our imagination in a way that is
useful and beneficial, especially
		

			spiritually. Is to use the faculty
of imagination for things like
		

			this, he says. Then I place the
karba before my very eyes,
		

			imagining it says, If I'm standing
right in front of the car, and I
		

			place the srira that goes over
hellfire, the traverse that goes
		

			over hellfire. I place it at my
feet, so as if I can see it at my
		

			feet, and I imagine paradise to my
right, and I imagine the fire to
		

			my left, and I imagine the Angel
of Death standing behind me.
		

			And I think and ponder deeply that
this will be my final prayer.
		

			Then I stand and pray, and I am
between the state of hope and
		

			fear, so I begin the prayer, and I
say Allahu Akbar, and I recite the
		

			Quran with tarti Full recitation,
giving each of the letters, it's
		

			right, and reciting properly and
with reverence. And then when I go
		

			into rukur, the bowing position, I
do so with humility. And when I go
		

			into prostration, I prostrate with
reverential fear, with this
		

			pushur. And you know, when I sit
in the position.
		

			I do so with sincerity, and when I
try to have sincerity of heart,
		

			and when I finish the prayer, I do
not know, has it been accepted
		

			from me or not?
		

			Even after all of that, I still
remain in a state between hope and
		

			fear. Is it accepted or not?
		

			And Sayyidina, Abdullah ibn Al Abu
Asmaa anhuma, he said, raka atani,
		

			muktaslidatani, feetrun,
minkayami, lahila Tin walabu sa
		

			hin, he says, two rakats that you
perform with you know well that
		

			you're not rushed and hasty and
completing that, but even muktasi,
		

			that is that they're not very
long, and they're not rushed, just
		

			even two moderate arakas that are
not very long, that you pray while
		

			you are reflecting and pondering
what you're reciting and thinking
		

			about your state with Allah
subhanahu wa and all of the things
		

			associated with the prayer is
better for you than standing up
		

			the entire night in prayer and
your heart is heedless. Just two
		

			brief, moderate rakais with
reflection are better than an
		

			entire night where your heart is
heedless. So we have to have now
		

			the great
		

			they have quality and quantity.
		

			But for us, sometimes people think
that quantity alone is sufficient.
		

			But you want quality. We want
quality. And when we have when we
		

			focus on that, then when we start
to access the real fruits of the
		

			Salah, then we want more of it,
and quantity starts to become very
		

			naturally accessible and desirable
to us.