Thirty & Up The Secrets Of Prayer #13
Oct 14, 2026 · 51 min · 10 segments
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Oct 14, 2026 · 51 min · 10 segments
So, uh, from Imam Al-Ghazali's book that we're reading together, where he describes some of the, as he calls them, like the secrets or the mysteries of salah.
So what are the merits of the place of prayer, the place in which a person performs their salah? And we talked about, uh, last week, we spoke about the virtue that every person has when they perform salah in a pl- in a place, and what that place now, uh, takes on from that act, okay? And so the, the baseline belief is that every place that a person performs a salah is not, uh, simply just like earth and land and dirt or whatever.
And we mentioned last week, and I'll just say briefly again, that we believe that fundamentally as well, we believe that there is a level of consciousness that every creation has.
We know what human consciousness is and feels like, okay? Um, we also have familiarity with like other organisms like animals.
We know what their consciousness kind of looks like, right? Because we have pets, insects, uh, we talked about plants.
So there are different planes of consciousness that different creations experience.
And we think to ourselves, you know, briefly, "Oh, how is that possible?" Like, the mountains are an inanimate object, right? Inanimate, like they cannot articulate.
Yes, mountains don't have human consciousness, but mountains have their own created consciousness given to them from Allah, okay? And this is why we believe that the Earth itself will testify on the Day of Judgment, you know, either for or against, uh, the people that spent time on it, and one of the actions that we talked about last week was prayer.
And so we mentioned this at the end of last week, so we'll kinda back up and start there, which is that there is a-- there are not-- th- there's not a ton of examples of deeds in which when a person performs those deeds, that now the Earth, uh, grieves or weeps at the departure of this person from the Earth.
There's not, like, a book filled with them, right? That description is very special.
Uh, and, and so when you come across it, it is beautiful in that sense that it's kind of rare.
And Salah, performing prayer, is one of the deeds that's mentioned as being an action that when a person performs Salah, that person now has basically marked this, you know, existential flag in this piece of Earth, and that flag is now going to be the one that, uh, on the Day of Judgment or before then even, when that person passes away, that that person will be grieved by the Earth that they prayed on.
So what are some of the narrations? The narrations, we mentioned Ali Radi Allahu Anhu, he said that, you know, "The Earth, it sheds tears, and it weeps for the one who passes away.
So, uh, from Imam Al-Ghazali's book that we're reading together, where he describes some of the, as he calls them, like the secrets or the mysteries of salah.
So what are the merits of the place of prayer, the place in which a person performs their salah? And we talked about, uh, last week, we spoke about the virtue that every person has when they perform salah in a pl- in a place, and what that place now, uh, takes on from that act, okay? And so the, the baseline belief is that every place that a person performs a salah is not, uh, simply just like earth and land and dirt or whatever.
And we mentioned last week, and I'll just say briefly again, that we believe that fundamentally as well, we believe that there is a level of consciousness that every creation has.
We know what human consciousness is and feels like, okay? Um, we also have familiarity with like other organisms like animals.
We know what their consciousness kind of looks like, right? Because we have pets, insects, uh, we talked about plants.
So there are different planes of consciousness that different creations experience.
And we think to ourselves, you know, briefly, "Oh, how is that possible?" Like, the mountains are an inanimate object, right? Inanimate, like they cannot articulate.
Yes, mountains don't have human consciousness, but mountains have their own created consciousness given to them from Allah, okay? And this is why we believe that the Earth itself will testify on the Day of Judgment, you know, either for or against, uh, the people that spent time on it, and one of the actions that we talked about last week was prayer.
And so we mentioned this at the end of last week, so we'll kinda back up and start there, which is that there is a-- there are not-- th- there's not a ton of examples of deeds in which when a person performs those deeds, that now the Earth, uh, grieves or weeps at the departure of this person from the Earth.
There's not, like, a book filled with them, right? That description is very special.
Uh, and, and so when you come across it, it is beautiful in that sense that it's kind of rare.
And Salah, performing prayer, is one of the deeds that's mentioned as being an action that when a person performs Salah, that person now has basically marked this, you know, existential flag in this piece of Earth, and that flag is now going to be the one that, uh, on the Day of Judgment or before then even, when that person passes away, that that person will be grieved by the Earth that they prayed on.
So what are some of the narrations? The narrations, we mentioned Ali Radi Allahu Anhu, he said that, you know, "The Earth, it sheds tears, and it weeps for the one who passes away.
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