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Khushoo is the soul of Salah

Khushoo is the soul of Salah

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 Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wasalatu wasalamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahibus salam. Tasleeman kathiran kathira. My brothers and sisters, somebody much wiser than I am said this, and I'm only repeating. And he said, what if I told you the ummah's downfall didn't begin with politics or culture or society. It began on the prayer mat. It began on the prayer mat. What is the first thing lost from the ummah? It is not hijab. It is not honesty. It is not charity. It is something far more subtle and almost gone. Rasulullah, he sallallahu alayhi wa sallam warned us. And he said, the first thing to be lifted from my ummah is khusho. Not prayer itself, not fasting, not rituals. Khusho. The heart inside the prayer. The body stays Muslim. The soul slips away. Now think about that again. The prayer remains. The movements remain. The words remain. The masjid, the prayers remain. The presence, the huzur of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala disappears. The humility disappears. The trembling disappears. The softness disappears. We keep the shell. We lose the soul. Why is this terrifying? Because when khusho is lost, you still pray. But your prayer doesn't lift you. Doesn't soften you. Doesn't restrain you. Doesn't change you. You pray with your limbs, but not with your heart. This is how an ummah decays from within. The ummah lost khusho when we started rushing. We started multitasking. We started treating prayer like a chore. Something to be done and finished with. We started thinking about everything except sallam. We started thinking about everything except Allah. Think about what happens in the sallam. Our bodies enter sallam. Our minds stay in the dunya. This is how khusho dies. The painful reality. Today we know the motions of sallam better than their meaning. We perfect our tajweed, but not our attention. We memorize surahs, but not salanda. We inherited the ritual, not the reverence. Khusho is not crying. Khusho is not crying. Khusho is not crying. Khusho is not crying. It's not emotion. It's not drama. It's not fear. Khusho is being present. Being humble. Being aware. Being small before Allah. Being sincere. Being still. It is the heart kneeling in sajda before the body does. Khusho was the secret of the sahaba. They didn't pray long. They prayed deep. When they stood, their hearts trembled. When they bowed, their egos bent. When they prostrated, the dunya disappeared. They prayed like people who knew they would die tomorrow. How to revive khusho? How to revive khusho? In one sentence. Before you say Allahu Akbar, whisper in your heart, Ya Allah, this prayer is for you. Ya Allah, this prayer is for you. Ya Allah, this prayer is for you. Not for him. Not for habit. Not for routine. Not for people. Not for discipline. For him. For Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. That intention alone changes the entire prayer. The truth no one tells you. The ummah won't be revived by more lectures, more institutes, more seminars. It will be revived the moment hearts bow the way bodies bow. Revive khusho and you revive your civilization. So ask yourself. When I pray, does Allah have my body or my heart? Because the first thing the ummah lost was khusho. And the ummah will rise again only when we find it. Inside ourselves, inside our prayer, inside our hearts. In the words of the great grammarian and great scholar of the Abbasi period, in the court of Harun Rashid, he said, I heard the Arab. The tribal Arabs, the Badu, praying to Allah. With words that opened the eyes of eloquence and opened the jewels of wisdom. And opened the jewels of wisdom. I heard him say, It is enough for me to be your slave. It is enough for me to be proud that you are my Rabb. You are as I love. So make me as you like. It is enough for me to be your slave. It is enough for me to be proud that you are my Rabb. You are as I love. So make me as you love. See how beautiful this is. It is enough for me to be your slave. It is enough for me to be proud. It is enough for me to be your slave. You are as I love. So make me as you love. SubhanAllah. It shows us that the actual thing which is important is this connection with Allah. The connection with Allah in our Salah. When we can do that, when we get that connection, Inshallah, that is where the secret of success is. The connection of with Allah SubhanAllah. I remind myself and you that SubhanAllah, we, we are not in the same place. Inshallah, we pray. At least those of us who pray, pray. But how many of us pray in a way where that prayer is beneficial for us? Where that prayer really does something for us? That is the issue. The issue is what is my Salah doing for me? And I remind myself and you that Allah SubhanAllah told us that the Salah is the tool to deal with this world. Right? To deal with this world. Because Allah SubhanAllah told us, Ya yuwa allazeena aamana usta'eenoo bisabri wa salah. O you who...
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