Focusing on our Salat and Prayers
Khusoo(Focusing) on our Salat and Prayers Khushoo is about being mentally present in one’s prayers. It’s about knowing what we are reciting from the Quran and engaging our hearts with Allah when saying Allah’s remembrances and Azkar in salat and our prayers. It’s about having our hearts and minds focused toward Allah when we are in the state of salat. Here is a short explanation by Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allaah have mercy on him) who said, “The khushoo’ of true faith is when the heart feels aware and humble before the greatness and glory of Allaah, and is filled with awe, fear and shyness, so that the heart is utterly humbled before Allaah and broken, as it were, with fear, shyness, love and the recognition of the blessings of Allaah and its own sins. So no doubt the khushoo’ of the heart is followed by the khushoo’ of the body. . (Al-Rooh, p. 314) Why can’t we seem to focus during our salat? Why don’t our hearts engage with Allah in our prayers?...