Irfan (Volume - 2) / IRFAAN-2

Body is felt eased and a gladness and bliss is felt for no apparent reason. On the other hand, if a person misses Assalaat of night and has not offered it, heart remains worried and glum. He cannot get sound asleep and sees nightmares. If the person, who offers Assalaat (Prayers), does not experience and feel any of the abovementioned signs, he should conclude that his offered Assalaat was not rightly done and was invalid and did not reach the degree of Acceptability. Otherwise, there is no reason that the slave contacts the Sanctuary (Court) of Allah Almighty and begs and asks (for help and needs) and that the Hayyu Qayyum does not respond because Allah's trysts are true as He says:

Therefore, remember Me, I will remember you (2:152)

Allah Almighty says: Your Lord has said: Pray unto Me and I will hear your prayer (40:60)

Hence, the person, who offers Assalaat (Prayers), should offer Assalaat in right and acceptable way and should keep his intention pure and should incline his heart towards Allah Almighty and should offer Assalaat with that Hazoor of heart as if he is standing in front of Allah Almighty and he is seeing Him or at least he should imagine that he is offering Assalaat (Prayers) in the Court of Allah Almighty and that Glorious Lord is seeing him.

Allah Almighty says: Successful indeed are the believers, who are humble in their prayers (23:1-2)

Four conditions apply for a valid Assalaat (Prayers):

1. Hazoor of Heart
2. (using due) wisdom and sense (when standing in Prayers) before God
3. Awe and Greatness of Allah's Glorious Essence in heart
4. Offering the elements of Assalaat in the best manner and remaining humble and unpretentious

Thus, Assalaat, in absence of Hazoori, is distracted fiddle and Assalaat, in absence of sense and wisdom is darkness of heart. Without humble (stooping), the heart of the person offering Prayers is Khaati, that is, astray and without unpretentious subordination, the person offering Prayers is Jaani, that is, he is wronging his Nafs.

HADIS

(Saying of the Holy Prophet of Allah Hazrat Muhammad Sal Allahu Alaihe Wa Aa-lehee Wa-sallam)

When slave stands before Court of Allah Almighty in Assalaat (Prayers), Allah Almighty lifts the Hijaab and Curtains between Him and that slave and turns attentive to that slave through His Sacred Essence and arrays and lines of Angels stand in the space between his shoulders and heavens and they follow and copy his offering of Postures of Assalaat as a gesture of honor and admiration and accompany him saying Amen with his Amen and present to him and shower on him the trays full of the jewels of the Anwaar of Mercy on him from the kingdom of heavens!

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That person, who offers Assalaat (Prayers) with the Hazoori of Heart, his condition is exactly the same as mentioned above!

This has come in a Hadis that His Highness Jalaal Ahadiyat says that when the slave says Takbeer e Tahreema, that is, Allahu Akbar for Assalaat (Prayers), Allah Almighty orders the Angels of His Sacred Sanctuary (Court) that 'O Angels! This slave has come in My Court and intends to utter some words of secrecy and privacy and wants to beg and implore. O Angels! Lift the Curtains between this slave and Me for a while'. The Angels lift the Hijaab and Curtains following the Orders of Allah Almighty. However, when the slave inclines and attends towards the Khatraat of the Outsider and the worldly thoughts and his heart become empty of the Thought and Visualization of Allah Almighty, Order is given again from the Court of Lord that 'O Angels! Drape the Curtains again. His heart is facing opposite to Me and it is facing towards Dunya (World). This slave has not come to offer Assalaat and praying and seeking (My help) in My Sanctuary and instead he has come to do non-serious and to make a jest on Me'. Here, an Angel heralds saying that 'Would that this person, who is inclining and is attentive towards the Outsider in Assalaat, know this thing that what Glorious Sacred Highness Excellency He is, before Him he is standing! Had he known that, he would not have dared to incline and attend to the trivial things and ignoble creatures after turning his face away of that Magnificent King of the Kings!'

In the book 'Awarif ul Muararif', Shaikh Shahab ud Din Soherwardi Rahmatu-Allahe Ta-aala Alaihe says that 'when the person, offering Assalaat (Prayers), says Takbeer e Tahreema, that is, Allahu Akbar, the Devils that are attached with him scatter here and there in different directions upon hearing the words of Takbeer e Tahreema, that is, Allahu Akbar because Allah Almighty sends Tajalli towards the heart of the salve and gazes upon his heart.