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THE DAILY ISLAMIC REMINDERS. YaumulJumuat, 19th Jumaadal Awwal 1440, (Friday, 25th January, 2019). TO CONCENTRATE IN SALAAT IS A PILLAR TO PERFECT OUR SALAAT. BismilLaahir Rahmaanir Raheem. Lets consider these 10 tips on how to concentrate (khushu) during salaat(prayers). 1. Before standing up for Prayer, try to deal with all the minor urgent matters which demand your attention. If you are pressed by hunger, eat first; if you are pressed to attend to the call of nature, relieve yourself first; if you are the parent of an infant, feed him or her, or keep him or her busy.  2. Perform your wudu’ (ablution) well, paying due care and attention.  3. Approach the Prayer with zest and passion as if it is the last prayer in your life before dying. Actually the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) taught us that we could do nothing in this world that could ever surpass Prayer in merit and excellence.  4. Visualize that in your Prayer you are going to have a special audience with ALLAH, Lord of the worlds, and that you are enjoying a direct communion with HIM, which, in fact, is true.  5. Think of the Prayer you are performing as if it were the last Prayer of your life. In fact, it could very well be the last one, since no one is given a guarantee that he or she would live to offer another Prayer.  6. Picture the scene of the Last Day when people will be lined up into two groups, one destined for Heaven, and another for Hell, and ask yourself where you would be placed.  7. Focus your mind on what you are reading in your Prayer and recite simple suurats that you understand it's meaning and ponder on the meaning whiles you recite.  8. If, in spite of your best efforts, your mind is still wandering, seek refuge in ALLAH as thought by the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam and bring your mind back to Prayer (thus, to dry spit or blow air to your left after reciting AwuuthubilLahi Minash-Sheitaanir Rajeem).  9. Pray to ALLAH and beg HIM to grant you true the joy of concentrating in your Prayer and protection against the wanderings of your mind. 10. Place your eyesight to the one spot where you will be making your sujuud while you recite and avoid taking your eyes from that sport. Remember always that you are standing in front of ALLAH the Mighty offering such salaat hoping for HIM to accept from you. With the above, in Shaa ALLAH we can defeat sheitaan in offering our salaat properly. Remember today is Friday as such we should remember to prepare well for it be-iznillah. May ALLAH (Al-Muhaimin, The Protector) protect us from the tricks of shaitan during prayers and forgive us our mistakes. Aameen.

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