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The First: The level of the one who is negligent and wrongs his
soul. He...
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The First: The level of the one who is negligent and wrongs his
soul. He is the one who falls short in performing ablution properly,
performing the prayer upon its time and within its specified limits,
and in fulfilling its essential pillars.
The Second: The one who guards his prayers upon their proper
times and within their specified limits, fulfils their essential pillars
and performs his ablution with care. However, his striving (in
achieving the above) is wasted due to whisperings in his prayer so
he is taken away by thoughts and ideas.
The Third: The one who guards his prayers within the specified
limits, fulfils their essential pillars and strives with himself to repel
the whisperings, thoughts and ideas. He is busy struggling against
his enemy (Satan) so that he does not steal from the prayer. On
account of this he is engaged in (both) prayer and jihaad.
The Fourth: The one who stands for the prayer, completes and
perfects its due rights, its essential pillars, performs it within its
specified limits and his heart becomes engrossed in safeguarding its
rights and specified limits, so that nothing is wasted from it. His
whole concern is directed towards its establishment, its completion
and its perfection, as it should be. His heart is immersed in the
prayer and in enslavement to his Lord, the Exalted.
The Fifth: The one who stands for the prayer like the one
mentioned above. However, on top of this, he has taken and placed
his heart in front of his Lord, the Mighty and Majestic, looking
towards Him with his heart with anticipation, (his heart) filled with
His love and His might, as if he sees and witnesses Allaah. The
whisperings, thoughts and ideas have vanished and the coverings
which are between him and his Lord are raised. What is between
this person and others with respect to the prayer, is superior and
greater than what is between the heavens and the earth. This
person is busy with his Lord, the Mighty and Majestic, delighted with
Him.
The first type will be punished, the second type will be held to
account, the third will have his sins and shortcomings expiated,
the fourth will be rewarded and the fifth will be close to his Lord,
because he will receive the portion of the one who makes his prayer
the delight and pleasure of his eye. Whoever makes his prayer the
delight and pleasure of his eye, will have the nearness to his Lord,
the Mighty and Majestic, made the delight and pleasure of his eye in
the hereafter. He will also be made a pleasure to the eye in this
world since whoever makes Allaah the pleasure of his eye in this
world, every other eye will become delighted and pleased with him.
Taken from: 'Al-Waabil as-Sayyib', Pgs. 23-24
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