Khushu is the soul of Salah

https://youtu.be/tW2B_4_vsTo Quote mentioned: Instagram https://share.google/zLkIXaLoBK9Xkt0u1 Auto-generated transcript: Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wa Salatu Wasalamu Ala Ashrafil Anbiya Ilum Kursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Alaihi Wasallam. Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. One of my very good friends sent me this forward on WhatsApp. And unlike most of these forwards, this one is really, truly worth reading and listening to. So I thought I will use this as the basis of my Pajayat Reminder today. First, let me read what the forward is. It says, I have no idea who is the author of this. May Allah bless them and reward them in keeping with majesty and grace. Very beautiful. The forward goes as follows. It says, What if I told you Ummah's downfall didn't begin with politics or culture or society. It began inside the prayer mat. What is the first thing lost from the Ummah? It is not hijab. It is not honesty. It is not charity. It is something far more subtle and almost none. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam warned us. He said, The first thing to be lifted from my Ummah is Khushu. Not Salah itself. Not fasting. Not rituals. Khushu. The heart inside the prayer. The body stays Muslim. The soul slips away. He did that again. Listen to that again. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam warned us. He said, The first thing to be lifted from my Ummah is Khushu. The first thing to be lifted from my Ummah,棊棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 The prayer remains, the movements remain, the words remain, the masjid remains, but the presence disappears, humility disappears, the trembling disappears, the softness disappears. We keep the shell, we lose the soul. Why is this terrifying? Because when Kosho is lost, you still pray, but your prayer doesn't lift you, doesn't soften you, doesn't restrain you, doesn't change you. You pray with your limbs, but not with your heart. This is how an ummah decays from within. The ummah lost Kosho when we started rushing, we started multitasking, we started treating prayer like a chore. We started thinking about everything except Allah. Our bodies enter Salah. Our minds stay in the dunya. This is how Kosho dies. A painful reality. Today, we know the motions of Salah better than its meaning. We perfect our tajweed, but not our attention. We memorize surahs, but not saranda. We inherited the ritual, not the reverence. Kosho is not crying. It's not emotion. It's not drama. It's not a ritual. It's a ritual. It's not fear. Kosho is being present, being humble, being aware, being small before Allah . Being sincere, being still. It is the heart kneeling before the body does. Kosho was the secret of the Sahaba. They didn't pray long. They prayed deeply. When they stood, their hearts trembled. When they bowed, they prayed. When they prayed, they prayed. When they prayed, they prayed. When they prayed, they prayed. When they棊棊棊棊 That intention alone changes the entire prayer. The truth, no one tells you. The ummah won't be revived by more lectures, more institutes, more seminars. It will be revived the moment hearts bow, the way bodies bow. Revive khushu and revive a civilization. So ask yourself, when I pray, does Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala have my body or my heart? Because the first thing the ummah lost was khushu. And the ummah will rise again only when we find it inside ourselves, inside our prayers, inside our hearts. This is where the beautiful reminder ends. And again, as I said, may Allah reward the person who wrote this. Very, very beautiful. Subhanallah. I remind myself and you, my brothers and sisters, that the purpose of reminders is not the reminder itself. The purpose of reminders is to then bring that action into our lives. If we listen to our reminder and I remind myself, I remind others, and we do not practice it ourselves, then the reminder has no meaning. So let us not become just people who routinely, without thinking, you know, just say things. Let us be people who when we say something, let us be those who will also apply it and who will work according to it. Because as Allah SWT said in the Quran al-Kareem, He said, يَا يُوَا الَّذِينَ هَمْ مَنُوا لِمَا تَخُولُونَ مَا لَتَفَرُونَ O you people, O you who believe, why do you say that which you believe? Do not do. لِمَا تَقُولُوا مَعَ لَا تَفْعَلُونَ Now, we don't want to be people who say something and do something else. Because that is a very dangerous thing to do. So think about this, that if you are, for example, if you and I, if we are, have lives where we say that we believe in Allah, we say that we believe in the Day of Judgment, we say that we believe in the meeting with Allah SWT, we say that we believe that we will be called to account for every single thing that we chose to do or not to do, yet we lie, we cheat, we earn haram, we eat haram, we pay no attention to fulfilling the right to life, we don't have the rights of others, we usurp the rights of others, including our own family, our sisters, our brothers, we do not give people their due, we promise something but we do not deliver, no matter how small or big that may be. And the whole long litany of our lives and our actions is not enough. We do all this and we expect that Allah SWT, when we ask Allah when we are in trouble, Allah SWT will send for us the armies and help us to the earth, to help us and create us. I mean, how much more illogical can we be? When we have no connection with Allah SWT, what does it mean? If our phones, I'm giving you that example because this is something which is in the hands of every person today. If the phone is not connected, if it has, either it has no battery, the battery is dead, or it has a battery is fine, but it does not have a connection to the internet, it does not have a connection with a service provider, the phone will still look like a phone. The phone will not change its shape, it won't change its color, it won't change its shape, it won't change anything. But if the phone is dead, if the phone is dead, if the phone is dead, except that it will not work. That's how we are. We are like people who are, who have the phones to our ears, and we are yelling and screaming and saying, help me, help me, help me, but the phone is dead. And you are saying, well, I have the phone. I have a phone. I have Iman. I have Salah. But do we really have a phone? Is it, is it, can you say I have a phone when the phone is dead? Because it's as good, you are equal to somebody who has no phone. You have the thing in your hand, but it's not doing anything for you. And that's where we are. May Allah have mercy on us. Allah said, يَعْيِبَ الَّذِينَ عَامَنُوا اسْتَعِينُوا بِالصَّبْرِ وَالصَّلَامِ And then He said, O you who believe, take the help of sabr and salah. And then He said, O you who believe, take the help of sabr and salah. And then He said, O you who believe, take the help of sabr and salah. Make the effort, and then make rujubi lallah. Turn to Allah SWT and say, Allah help me. Help me because I am yours. Help me because I am talking to you. Help me because you told me, ask me, I will give you. And I am asking you. I am standing here in obedience to you. So give me because I am asking you. Give me because I am asking you without joining partners with you. We need to be able to say this with confidence. without joining partners with you. Somebody who is committing shirk, somebody who is steeped in bid'at, somebody who is eating haram, who is earning haram, whose actions are haram, whose desires are haram, you cannot say this with confidence. You cannot say this with a clear conscience. You cannot say this with a clear conscience. What's the meaning of saying I am yours, I am yours? You are not yours. If you belong to Allah SWT, everyone belongs to Allah, including the one who denies. Allah belongs to Allah. I am talking about the ones who own that. The meaning of Iman is what? Iman is to accept and own and believe that we belong to Allah SWT and act accordingly. And the action according to that belief is obedience. There is no other action. The action is obedience. I belong to Allah, what is the evidence? I belong to Allah. I do not obey my desires. I do not obey culture. I do not obey somebody else. I obey Allah. My brothers and sisters, we have to bring ourselves to that which we have no other choice. Otherwise, we will suffer, we will continue to suffer and suffering will increase over time. Make no mistake. We ask Allah SWT to help us, we ask Allah SWT to save us from being among people, being among those who have forgotten Allah SWT. We ask Allah SWT to keep us in His mercy, to guide us to Him, to give us istiqamat and steadfastness to stay there. May Allah bless the noble Prophet and his companions. May Allah's mercy and mercy be upon him.