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10-04-05, 06:18 AM
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why do you pray? what do you hope to achieve?
obviously i pray so as to worship Allah and praise Him in the correct way he should be praised and worshipped.
but also as a muslim the method in which we pray also relates as to also why we pray.
EVERYTHING we do is in pursuit of reaching a level of spiritual purity by the pursuit of IHSAN (PERFECTION OF FAITH).
Ihsan definition: “is to worship Allah as you are seeing Him and while you see Him not, yet truly He sees you."
This is the Prophet’s definition of the term “Ihsan�, and it signifies that a person, who is characterized with Ihsan, does everything perfectly as he sees his MASTER watching him.
This is the level of IHSAN that GrandSheikh Nazim has reached whilst praying:
'A vision came to me and I saw myself climbing a ladder from our prayer place to the Bayt al-Ma'mur, the Ka`ba (mosque) of the Heavens. There I saw 124,000 prophets standing in rows for prayers, with Sayyidina Muhammad as Imam. I saw 124,000 Companions of the Prophet Muhammad standing in rows behind them. Then I saw the 7,007 Saints of the Naqshbandi Order standing behind them for prayer. Then I saw 124,000 saints of the other orders, standing in rows for prayers.'
what he described was not a physical experience, but a spiritual one.
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Prayer to me is giving thanks...
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I pray becauseI believe in the power and energyofprayer, creates a positive vibe, mind and spirit for me..keeps me grounded to that positive energy in the universe..I don't ask for things...I just give thanks..I am THANKFUL for every sitituation/circumstance, goodor bad.....every person who hascome into my life, stayedor even left for whatever reason..I give thanks...
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for a small part of my life I stopped praying..but at my current age, I understand why my grandmother and my mother prayed..those prayers have gotten me to where I am...molded and shaped the woman that I am...another reason I pray is...sometimes that is all I have justkeep me on the right path..
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