Thirty & Up The Secrets Of Prayer #15
Oct 27, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min · 10 segments
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Oct 27, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min · 10 segments
So we have been embarking on the journey of understanding how to become more present in the salah, in the prayer.
And what ends up happening when we talk about these things in like a... you know, in like a conceptual way or like a hypothetical way, is that people typically ask for like concrete steps.
Like, how do I get there? Okay, so we're talking about, for example, having presence of the heart in Salah.
So he would say, for example, you know, work to achieve the pleasure of God.
And usually the companions would say that it would be somebody who was a little bit more like from the Bedouin, kind of from the outskirts.
They used to get excited, the companions, because when someone came in and they kind of had that personality where they weren't afraid to ask questions, they were excited because they knew that they were going to get the opportunity to learn something new today.
Because the companions were shy, you know, they didn't want to like be rude or impose.
So when somebody came in and they came from like the outskirts and they were like, I have a question, you know, and they kind of were a little bit more intense.
Some of the more, I guess you could say like shy companions were excited because they're like, okay, good.
Someone's asking questions, you know? So it's okay for us to feel that way when you read books sometimes and you're like, okay, this is very beautiful, but I want to know how can I do that? How can I become more present in my salah, my prayer? How, right? Okay.
And so he says here that there is the inner dispositions, right? So what does that mean? The inner dispositions by which the life of the prayer is completed.
If we go back a little bit, he says our main point is that the presence of the heart is the prayer's breath of life.
The main point that he's made in all of these pages is that presence of the heart is the And he gives a lot of examples, and we don't have to go back and redo all those examples, but when you compare anything that is living to anything that is dead, okay, the differences are so distinctly obvious when something is alive versus when something is no longer alive.
And some of the things that we experience in those dead prayers are like we forget, right? What prayer was it? Did I even have wudu? Did I do the right amount of rakat? What did I recite? Do I remember what I recited? And so all of these things are signs of, if not a dead prayer, but like a dying prayer.
But we all have felt the experience of a prayer that's full of life, that just felt so full of energy and joy and rejuvenation.
Take yourself back to Ramadan, right? You know, when you prayed in a way where it actually felt like that prayer gave you life.
So we have been embarking on the journey of understanding how to become more present in the salah, in the prayer.
And what ends up happening when we talk about these things in like a... you know, in like a conceptual way or like a hypothetical way, is that people typically ask for like concrete steps.
Like, how do I get there? Okay, so we're talking about, for example, having presence of the heart in Salah.
So he would say, for example, you know, work to achieve the pleasure of God.
And usually the companions would say that it would be somebody who was a little bit more like from the Bedouin, kind of from the outskirts.
They used to get excited, the companions, because when someone came in and they kind of had that personality where they weren't afraid to ask questions, they were excited because they knew that they were going to get the opportunity to learn something new today.
Because the companions were shy, you know, they didn't want to like be rude or impose.
So when somebody came in and they came from like the outskirts and they were like, I have a question, you know, and they kind of were a little bit more intense.
Some of the more, I guess you could say like shy companions were excited because they're like, okay, good.
Someone's asking questions, you know? So it's okay for us to feel that way when you read books sometimes and you're like, okay, this is very beautiful, but I want to know how can I do that? How can I become more present in my salah, my prayer? How, right? Okay.
And so he says here that there is the inner dispositions, right? So what does that mean? The inner dispositions by which the life of the prayer is completed.
If we go back a little bit, he says our main point is that the presence of the heart is the prayer's breath of life.
The main point that he's made in all of these pages is that presence of the heart is the And he gives a lot of examples, and we don't have to go back and redo all those examples, but when you compare anything that is living to anything that is dead, okay, the differences are so distinctly obvious when something is alive versus when something is no longer alive.
And some of the things that we experience in those dead prayers are like we forget, right? What prayer was it? Did I even have wudu? Did I do the right amount of rakat? What did I recite? Do I remember what I recited? And so all of these things are signs of, if not a dead prayer, but like a dying prayer.
But we all have felt the experience of a prayer that's full of life, that just felt so full of energy and joy and rejuvenation.
Take yourself back to Ramadan, right? You know, when you prayed in a way where it actually felt like that prayer gave you life.
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