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The Words

The Words. Ninth. Details about the Five Daily Prayers. First Point: Purpose Purity, Greatness and Thanks. Glory (Celal), Perfection (Kemal), Beauty (Cemal). These three words are present in every part of the prayers.

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The Words

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  1. The Words Ninth

  2. Details about the Five Daily Prayers • First Point: Purpose • Purity, Greatness and Thanks. • Glory (Celal), Perfection (Kemal), Beauty (Cemal). • These three words are present in every part of the prayers. • They are also repeated 33 times at the end of the prayers to remind us of their meaning.

  3. Details about the Five Daily Prayers cont. • Second Point: Meaning • Seeing your faults, impotence and poverty, you prostrate in love and wonder before God. • Just as sovereignty requires worship and obedience, so does holiness require servants to see their own faults through seeking forgiveness. • Perfect power requires servants to see their impotence. • Infinite mercy requires servants to see their poverty.

  4. Details about the Five Daily Prayers cont. • Third Point: Worship • The index of all varieties of worship. • Just as man is a miniature example of the world.

  5. Details about the Five Daily Prayers cont. • Fourth Point: Wisdom in the specified times. • Just like the second-hand, minute hand, and the hour-hand of a clock point to days, weeks and years. They are examples of each other, resemble each other and recall one another. • Similarly, the alteration of day and night is like the seconds, stages of man’s life is like the minutes, etc.. • Creation looks to one another, are examples of each other, etc...

  6. Details about the Five Daily Prayers cont. • Fajr (morning): Early spring, moment of conception, creation of this universe, etc... • Zuhr (midday): Mid-summer, prime of youth, creation of man in the life time of this universe, etc... • Asr (afternoon): Autumn, mature age, time of the Final Prophet, etc... • Maghrib (sunset): End of autumn, man’s death, the destruction of this world at the commencement of resurrection, etc...

  7. Details about the Five Daily Prayers cont. • Isha (nightfall): Winter, man’s departure and decaying body, the close of examination in this world, etc... • Tahajjud (night-time): Recalls how needy we are of God, how merciful he is for allowing us to live, etc... • We can now see how the five specified times are marks for the start of a new revolution in man’s life and creation in general. • They show how the prescribed prayers are an innate duty and an incontestable debt for man. And how these specified times are the most fitting and appropriate times to man to fulfil its duty.

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