Contents
3 Correct Performance – Ta’dīl
4 Congregational Prayer – Jamā’a
7 The Mosque and Place of Prayer – Masjid
INTERNAL PREREQUISITES: ACTIONS OF THE HEART
Humility and Conscious Awareness
INTERNAL STATES CONDUCIVE TO PERFECTING THE LIFE IN PRAYER
Awareness – Understanding – Reverence – Awe – Hope – Shame
MEDICATION CONDUCIVE TO INNER SERENITY
INNER STATES AT EACH STAGE OF PRAYER
The Call to Prayer – Ritual Purity – Covering Private Parts – Facing the Qibla – Standing Upright – Intention – Takbīr – Opening Invocations – Reciting the Quran – Bowing Down – Prostration – Sitting and Testifying – End of Supplication – Salutation
1 Understand the Purpose and Significance Testing the Degree of Love for God – Elimination of Miserliness – Expression of Gratitude
7 Give the Best and the Dearest
8 Seek the Worthy and Deserving
See not what displeases God – Speak not… – Hear not… – Do not… – Avoid Overeating – Look to God with Fear and Hope
Importance of Observing Inward Aspects
The Ka’ba and Makka the Ennobled
FINE POINTS OF PROPRIETY; INTERNAL CONDUCT
Purity of Intention and Means – Shunning Unlawful Taxes – Moderation in Expenditure – Forsaking Evil Conduct – Going on Foot – Modesty and Simplicity of Transport – Shabbiness in Dress and Appearance – Kindness to Beasts of Burden – Sacrificing Animals – Equanimity
INNER STATES AT VARIOUS STAGES OF ḤAJJ
Understanding – Yearning – Resolve – Severing Ties – Provisions – Transport – Purchase of Iḥrām – Leaving Home – Crossing the Desert – Putting on Iḥrām and Crying ‘Labbayk’ – Entering Makka – Seeing the Ka’ba – Circumambulating the House (Tawāf) – Touching the Black Stone – Standing at Multazam – Running between al-Ṣafā and al–Marwa (Sa’y) – Standing at ‘Arafāt – Casting Pebbles (Ramy) – Sacrificing Animals – Visiting Madina – Visiting God’s Messenger
Chapter 5 Night Vigil – Qiyām al-Layl
Quranic Verses – Traditions of the Prophet – Traditions of the Companions and Their Followers
Chapter 6 Invoking Blessings upon God’s Messenger