| Khushoo` and Beautification of the Prayer |
Ibn al-Qayyim on the Hadeeth Qudsee : "I Have Divided the Prayer Between Myself and My Servant..." |
| Author: Ibn al-Qayyim |
| Source: As-Salaat wa Hukm Taarikihaa (Eng. Trans. Abu `Iyad as-Salafi) |
| Article ID : IBD060001 [39337] |
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...Then Allaah makes it clear that the people of this
Guidance are those who have been specified with His favour, not those upon whom
is His anger, and they are the ones who know the Truth but do not follow it and
not of those who are astray, and they are those who worship Allaah
without knowledge. Both of these groups share with each other in speaking about
His creation, His command and His Names and Attributes without knowledge. The
path of those upon whom is His favour and blessing is different from that of the
people of falsehood with respect to knowledge and action.
When he finishes from this praise, supplication and tawheed he
has been ordered to end it with ‘aameen’ which is a seal to (to his
supplication) and with which the aameen of the angels in the sky coincides. This
aameen is from the beautification of the prayer, just like the raising of the
hands is a beautification of the prayer, a following of the sunnah, veneration
of the command of Allaah, worship by the hands and a sign of the
transition from one pillar (of the prayer) to another.
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