Assalamu Alaikum Bliifeeans, I'm Asmaa and you're watching Bliifee - the place
to be for Muslim life hacks to follow our deen more easily. And in this video we will
look at more salah focus hacks that you can follow easily. So let's get right into it!
If you haven't already watched the first and the second video on the same topic then make sure to
watch them after this video. And again, like the other videos, every single tip in this video is In
Shaa Allah something you can start doing today. The first point to help you focus in your salah
is to focus on one point. This is a tip I saw for anxiety to stop thinking of too many
things and it even works in salah. I understand there is a difference of opinion on where actually
to look at during a salah but regardless of where you're looking at, simply focusing on that
particular point and not moving your eyes around helps your mind to focus. You can try it right now
while you're listening to this video and if you are currently in a safe situation to try this,
stare at your nearest wall and focus on one single point for a few seconds starting from now. Go!
Did you notice how quiet your brain gets? All the thoughts in your head immediately silence up.
Let me know if that happened to you as well in the comments down below. So this was the first
point about looking at one point and focusing on it which helps our whizzing mind with all
the thoughts that distract us in our prayer. The second point to help us focusing in our prayer
is slowing down. Try to go a bit more slower than you already do. Give each step its own sweet time.
Make sure to pause in each step for at least a few seconds before moving on to the next step. This
helps us be mindful of our salah and our actions when praying to Allah. We can slow down not only
in our actions but also in our recitation. Remember that Surah Fatihah is a dua and Allah
is replying to each sentence as we say it. When we say "alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen", Allah
replies saying "my servant has praised me". Then "ar-rahmani r-rahim", "my servant has exalted me."
"Maliki yawmiddeen". "My servant has glorified me and my servant has submitted to me."
"Iyyaka na'budu wa iyyaka nastaeen,"
meaning you alone we worship and you alone we ask for help. To this Allah says
"this is between me and my servant and my servant will have what he has asked for."
"Ihdinas sirat al-mustaqeem."
Normally this ayah is translated as guide us to the straight path. That is one of the translation
but another translation of this ayah is when we are asking Allah to guide us ON the straight path.
The difference between this translation is that we are already on siratal mustaqeem but we need
guidance while we are on it. In Surah A'raaf, Shaitan tells Allah that he will wait on siratal
mustaqeem to ambush us or to surprise attack us by quietly waiting for us. So Shaitaan waits on
Sirat al Mustaqeem like a thug/a robber waits in a forest. He waits to pull us down and drag us down
from our path. So for that we are asking Allah to guide us on Sirat-ul-Mustaqeem. And then we
say "sirat al-lazeena an'amta alayhim ghayril maghdoobi alayhim wala-ddaulleen." Which means
guide us to the straight path the part of those whom you have favoured,
not those who you're angry with, and those who went astray. So here "ghayril maghdoobi"
are people of bani israel which Allah is angry with. And "daulleen" are those who went astray or
Christians who have taken Isa alayhis salam as god. Then in reply to this line,
to this dua, Allah says "this is for my servant and my servant will have what he has asked for."
We know that this is a conversation and we know the replies that Allah gives us because this is
from a hadith. So slowing down in this like we talk slowly in a conversation helps us focus and
whenever you make a dua you would make it slowly and from your heart so Surah Fatihah is also a
dua. So let's slow down there and in our other recitations and in our actions of salah as well.
The third point to help in focus is prayer clothes which are only and only for prayer so
that when you wear it it triggers focus. Our mind associates different moods with different things
so having a particular set of clothes for praying purposes only helps to create that environment
and sense of focus that you get when you wear it. Sometimes specific smells and places also help us
with this. So for the smell part you can keep a perfume or ittar, or put it on while you're
getting ready to pray and obviously for ladies this would be only when we're praying at home.
Another tip in the same topic of prayer clothes is you could have a special scarf to
pray with or anything else that you pray with. Having a special set for that is super useful
to help with getting into the zone of praying and focus. This is my prayer clothes set and
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buy it is in the description. Another thing to help with getting into the zone of prayer and
focus for it is doing zikr before praying so that you get into the state of mind before you start
praying. Sometimes we start our prayer right after watching videos or listening to songs or
talking to someone and that video or conversation keeps playing in our mind or we start thinking and
analyzing that particular video, that song, or thinking what to say next in that conversation
once we get back to it after praying. So when this happens we're just then reciting the things we say
in our prayer in the background and the main focus in our mind is on what we did before our salah and
what we have to do after our salah. So that is why sitting for some time and doing some sort of zikr
helps to remember Allah before we start praying. Even watching a video about Islam is a form of
zikr because we are remembering Allah. That way another thing we can do in the same tip is make
wudu and pray immediately after we do our wudu without doing anything else in between our wudu
and starting our prayer. There are some duas that we can say before and after doing wudu as well
which is another form of zikr and helps us get ready to focus in our prayer after wudu. We can
also take some time before praying to make dua to Allah to help us focus in salah and In Shaa Allah,
He will help you. To summarise this point, it is pretty much about being in a state of mind
where you aren't distracted by other things that we do before our salah or what we have
to do after our salah just by doing some form of zikr that helps us get into that state of mind.
The fifth point to focus in salah is to create love in your heart for Allah and begin the prayer
by thinking of all the goodness that you have and that He has provided you with. When you
start your prayer with Surah Fatihah and you say "alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen" you are saying
Alhamdulillah, you are being thankful to Allah and how He was there in your down times,
taking care of you. Having gratefulness in this way reduces thinking about other negative things
that worry you in your life. You know that Allah is taking care of it and that also
helps you slow down. Do you remember how we looked at the meaning of Surah Fatihah and how Allah is
responding to our dua immediately after we say it? So remembering that will help us be in the
moment and appreciate the opportunity we have to pray to Allah and to talk to him in this way.
Now if you haven't already you can go and watch the other two videos for more tips on how to focus
in your salah, but before you go to that - as a recap... Now this recap is only for those watching
the full video so don't write it down in the comments because people only read that
and don't understand the full point which causes misunderstandings. So as a recap, point number
one, is focusing on one point. Point number two is slowing down and remembering that this is a
conversation with Allah. Point number three - having clothes specially for prayer purposes.
Point number four - doing zikr and dua to get into the zone of focus for our prayer. Point
number five is to create love in our heart for Allah so that we can focus when we are praying.
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