10) The Right of the Prayer

[Ameer ALwali]

10) The Right of the Prayer

The right of your ritual prayer (salat) is that you know that it is an arrival before God and that through it you are standing before Him. When you know that, then you will stand in the station of him who is lowly, vile, beseeching, trembling, hopeful, fearful, and abased, and you will magnify Him who is before you through stillness and dignity. You will approach the prayer with your heart and you will perform it according to its bounds and its rights.

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10 .حق الصلاة

فَأَمَّا حَقُّ الصَّلاةِ فَأَنْ تَعْلَمَ أنّهَا وِفَادَةٌ إلَى اللهِ وَأَنَّكَ فيها قَائِمٌ بَيْنَ يَدَيِ اللهِ، فَإذَا عَلِمْتَ ذَلِكَ قُمْتَ مَقَامَ الذَّلِيلِ الْحَقيرِ الرَّاغِب الرَّاهِب الرَّاجِي الْخَائِفِ الْمِسْتَكِينِ الْمُتَضَرِّعِ الْمُعَظِّمِ لِمَنْ كانَ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ بالسُّكُونِ و الوقارِ و تقبل عليها بِقَلبِكَ و تقيمها بِحُدُودِها و حُقوقِها.

[الرحى]

The right of your slave (mamluk) is
that you should know that he is the
creature of your Lord, the son of your
father and mother, and your flesh and
blood. You own him, but you did- not
make him; God made him. You did not
create any one of his limbs, nor do
you provide him with his sustenance;
on the contrary, God gives you the
sufficiency for that.
Then He subjugated him to you,
entrusted him to you, and deposited
him with you so that you may be
safeguarded by the good you give to
him. So act well toward him, just as
God has acted well toward you. If you
dislike him, replace him, but do not
torment a creature of God. And there is
no strength save in God.