PAST AND PRESENT
It’s a great pleasure for me to write something about my present and past feelings while offering prayers. Writing 'great pleasure' is not a formality; it is what I really mean. I desperately wanted to share it with someone but unfortunately none of my friends were willing to listen to it as everyone is so busy in their own discussion, so its an opportunity to write everything about it for the magazine.
Previously I had nothing in my mind concerning the purpose of prayers. Prayers had always been a duty for me that took me less than five minutes, as I offered them so quickly without paying heed to what I used to recite. In fact I did not feel it necessary to look for the meaning of each verse and that most probably was the reason why I was not interested in it. I had never offered my prayers with all my heart. There was something at the very back of my mind, that the main purpose behind it is to please God, we are all doing it to make Him feel pleased about us. It used to be a trivial matter for me to skip one or two farz namaz in a day’s routine. But now (I must thank God for that Grand blessing) my whole approach has changed, the whole idea behind offering it is now much clearer in my mind. I always try to offer it with all my heart, mind and soul. I feel as if God is waiting for me to come in front of Him, to talk to Him. I feel as if He wants to share every small secret of mine and ready to even guideme. Now I have realised that when we really pray with the powerful intensity of belief, we can burn out our insecurity and gain new confidence in our own selves and in life.
While offering my prayers, the idea in my mind is someone really GREAT, the Most LOVABLE the One Who loves us the most and thus deserves to be loved is exactly in front of me and listening to every woe with great care. He is so powerful that He even knows whatever is in my mind and in my heart, so it’s important not to let any evil thought come to our mind while offering prayers. I always pray for an increase for the love of Allah in my heart because I have realised that much of the troubles that we face today stems from the fact that we have broken the sense of reality we have with God. In order to feel secure one must have a secure spiritual life, i.e. we must get close to Allah and the only method by which we can lessen the distance is by offering prayers with the full involvement of the heart, mind and soul. Only in this way can we feel Him, His enormous power over our lives and on everything present in this world. The only intention should be to please Him and not to do anything against His will, not to make Him upset for a minute. Its not easy to simply apply it in our life because it demands the change of the whole behaviour of oneself but the only thing needed is a small step towards Goodness. May Allah guide each one of us to take that small step.
[Amen]
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