4 years ago · Referencing Ayah 53:62, 6:162, 89:29-30
'Prostrate!'
This physical act of worship essentially must include the 'prostration' of the nafs. We become a true 'abd or slave only when the physical act is done with ultimate surrender to Him.
The surrender of egos The surrender of all desires The surrender of all ideologies The surrender of all thoughts, whims and fancies Only to our Creator Seeking only His Pleasure
Being in the position of prostration is most humbling but it raises the M...
In taraweeh, you feel something special in the ayaat of sujood. Your knees want to buckle at that point and the sajdah then takes you to a special place of inner peace that you don't want to come out of.
Yesterday the imam read surah an-Najm. This is another surah that is near and dear to my heart. Like al-Hashr it is strongly Seerah focused. It is extremely powerful with a high tempo throughout, consisting of short ayaat that pack a punch and ...