Understanding the vocabulary of salah

Fawaylulilmusaleen this person DESTROYED HIMSELF, its to have pity on someone. Lilmusaleen,

Allah has pity on MUSLIEEN, people who are forgetful about their prayer, sometimes they pray on time, sometimes they don’t, not regular about their prayer, not careful.

Lacksadicasial

When they do pray, they are showing off!

NOW it is negative. What title is being used? MUSLALEEN
MUMINOON is always positive

Musalieen is sometimes positive, sometimes negative.

We want to be amongst the muminoon, and what quality do we need to be that? KUSHOUU
This is comparison from Quran and Hadith of Jibreel

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4:142

Allah talk s about hypocrites

When they stand for prayer,they stand LAZY!!

This person looks like strings are holding him up, he looks pathetic when he prays

“They are showing off to the people”

“And they have not a lot of remembrance in Allah except for little bit”…maybe here and there they recite fatiha, His mind is WANDERING..!!

Even then they do pray, what is the primary objective? To show off
Lets look at hadith of Jibreel

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“ISHSAAN- It is that you worship Allah AS IF YOU CAN SEE HIM!

If you cant see him, Then most definitely He is MOST DEFINITELY IS WATCHING YOU.

The true believer is only concerned with the idea that Allah is watching him
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1.06 The Prerequisites for Khushu

1) Changing of Lifestyle:

Leaving sins and haram

Increase in practice of Sunan and Mustahabbat and Nafl

Decrease in vain and unnecessary indulgences

Increase in Recitation and Study of the Quran

2) Preparing for salah

Free yourself up and block out time in your schedule dedicated for salah (give it just as much importance as other items!)

Perform salah at the preferred times (no delaying)

Wudhu properly with sunnah, paying attention to details

Siwaak

Go to the masjid 15 minutes early

Listen to and repeat the adthaan

Pray with jamaat

Relax and breath easy, start forgetting distractions and worries of the world

Ask for Allah’s help because you can’t do anything on your own

3) While performing salah

Keep your eyes fixed at prescribed places

Observe and focus on postures in salah

Focus on the meaning of what is recited

SLOW DOWN, pause after each verse and recite dhikr slowly with concentration
1.07 How do we approach salah vocabulary?

We will study roots, conjugations, and derivates

Look at near synonyms and the implications of word choices

Look at usage of the Word in the Quran and Sunnah

Analyze sentence structure and its eloquence

Discuss deeper meanings of the words

2.01 THE OPENIING TAKBEER

Niyyah

If you notice, niyyah is missing in this section.

Unanimously of all the scholars, INTENTION IS MUST OF SALAH IT’S A REQUIRMENT so why is it not placed here? From a fiqh perspective there is no VERBAL INTENTION prescribed