The Spiritual Reality of Prayer (Salat)
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2016
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Spirituality is a comprehensive term, which encompasses almost
all the perspectives of life. It entails the word „Spirit‟ and if we
contemplate on the word „spirituality‟ it shows „reality‟ of „spirit‟.
When the soul leaves a body, the body becomes dead, which
proves that the actual living being is the soul. But why our soul
is in agony and we are spiritually in cessation? As our physical
body needs nutrients to live and grow, likewise our soul also
needs to exalt spiritually. As our soul is not visible to bare eye
then how can its sustenance be tangible? Its food is Love and
Vision of the Divine One. Spirituality and mysticism is having
knowledge about His Being, His Love, His Vision.
The whole picture should be taken into account. We all were
separated from our Lord Allah Almighty and were sent to this
world to fulfill the promise that we made to Him. Everything in
this universe has a purpose then how can we be without any aim.
We were sent to prove our love to our Lord and defeat satan and
our nafs. How can we prove our love to our Almighty Allah
when we do not have intellect of our actual whereabouts, we
only know the apparent aspect of the picture. Every spirit should
know the spiritual reality of itself.
We offer different prayers according to our religion but do we
know the spiritual or mystic reality of all the customs and norms
of our religion? Islam is the only religion, which evokes this
question and helps us find its answer through the ultimate path of
Faqr-e-Mohammadi (the path of our Holy Prophet Mohammad).
Faqr is the course or the way, which leads a true Muslim to
such closeness to Allah, where he or she is blessed with the vision
of The Divine Essence as Prophet Mohammad was blessed on the
night of Meraj. It is the actual Sunnah of the Holy Prophet as he
says:“Faqr is my pride and Faqr is from me”.
Nowadays people find peace nowhere and get tired of everything
after a certain time period, our soul is struggling for peace but
we are unaware of it and run after worldly desires but we should
remember that this life has to end some day. We can find that
peace only in the love of Allah and its reflection is in Salat, the
Salat of a Momin.
There are five basic pillars of Islam; Kalma, Salat, Fast, Zakat
and Hajj (pilgrimage). These are the most promising ways to
reach Allah but only through the Murshid Kamil Akmal (The
Divine Spiritual Guide) who is the one and only in every era.
Allah has stated many times about establishing Salat in the
Quran. There are multiple verses and hadiths stressing upon the
importance of Salat as given in this book.
This book is an English version of the Urdu text „Haqeeqat-eNamaz‟
that is written by the present Shaikh of the Sarwari Qadri
Order, Sultan-ul-Ashiqeen Hazrat Sakhi Sultan Mohammad
Najib-ur-Rehman Madzillah-ul-Aqdas. It is not an ordinary book,
it has the power to enliven the soul and open one‟s spiritual eye
because it has gems and pearls of knowledge and wisdom in it.
Nowadays people focus on offering Salat like some physical
exercise to get paradise in reward, they are unaware of its
spiritual reality. Salat is in fact the presence of heart and soul
before Allah. When a Momin offers any prayer it is not just an
offering of a body but also of his heart and soul, he no longer
belongs to himself rather gets united with Allah as if he was
never separated from Him. People do not find peace in anything
because they have forgotten the spiritual reality of all the norms
and customs of Islam.
Keywords
Islam, sufism, THE SPIRITUAL REALITY, Prayer, Salat, Namaz