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The Joy of Worship
اَلْحَمْدُ لِلّٰہِ رَبِّ الْعٰلَمِیْنَ وَ الصَّلٰوۃُ وَالسَّلَامُ عَلٰی سَیِّدِ الْمُرْسَلِیْنَ ط
اَمَّا بَعْدُ فَاَعُوْذُ بِاللّٰہِ مِنَ الشَّیْطٰنِ الرَّجِیْمِ ط بِسْمِ اللہِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّ حِیْم ط
اَلصَّلٰوۃُ وَ السَّلَامُ عَلَیْكَ یَا رَسُولَ اللہ وَعَلٰی اٰلِكَ وَ اَصْحٰبِكَ یَا حَبِیْبَ اللہ
اَلصَّلٰوۃُ وَ السَّلَامُ عَلَیْكَ یَا نَبِیَّ اللہ وَعَلٰی اٰلِكَ وَ اَصْحٰبِكَ یَا نُوْرَ اللہ
نَـوَیْتُ سُنَّتَ الاعْتِکَاف
Translation: “I have made the intention of Sunnah iꜤtikāf.”
Dear Islamic brothers, whenever you enter a masjid, make the intention of iꜤtikāf, for you will be rewarded as long as you stay in the masjid. Remember, inside a masjid, there is no sharꜤī permission to eat, drink, sleep or have suḥūr and ifṭār, and not even to drink Zamzam water and the water on which dam has been done. However, if the intention of iꜤtikāf is made, all these acts will become permissible. One should not make intention to observe iꜤtikāf only to eat, drink or sleep, but rather he should do it for pleasing Allāh Almighty.
It is stated in Fatāwā Shāmī:
“If someone wants to eat, drink or sleep in a masjid, he should make intention to observe iꜤtikāf and do the dhikr of Allāh Almighty for some time. Then, he may proceed as he wishes (i.e. now if he wants to eat, drink or sleep, he can do so).”
BOOK TOPIC
- The Joy of Worship
- Excellence of sending ṣalāt upon the Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم
- How the Beloved Prophet of Allāh صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم would worship
- We were made to worship
- The most important task in the world
- The meaning of our lives
- What is the sweetest thing?
- Shedding tears when leaving this world
- 5 incidents regarding joy and sweetness in worship
- 1. An Anṣārī Companion
- 2. Sayyidunā ꜤUrwah b. Zubayr
- 3.Sayyidunā Muslim b. Yasār
- 4. Sayyidunā ꜤAbdullāh b. Zubayr
- 5. Sayyidatunā RābiꜤah Baṣriyyah
- The misfortune of not experiencing joy in worship
- Man’s true dignity is found in worship
- How can we find joy in our worship?
- The joy of worship is found through hard work
- Increase in your nafl acts of worship
- How to discover joy in worship
- A hard heart - an obstacle to finding joy in worship
- The heart hardens with sin
- Think of the Hereafter!
- Eating excessively and its effect on the heart
- Leave three things and you find joy in worship
- The Weekly IjtimāꜤ Department
- One of the best ways to find joy in worship
- Fateḥ Muḥammad began offering ṣalāh
- Pious Deed number 5
- Imam JaꜤfar Ṣādiq رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه
- A brief description of Imam JaꜤfar al-Ṣādiq رَضِىَ الـلّٰـهُ عَـنْهُ
- Grapes from the unseen
- The sunan and etiquette of eating
