Bassam Saeh

Communicating with Allah (eBook, ePUB)

Rediscovering Prayer (Salah)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Hour after hour, day after day and year after year, the world works to keep us chasing its fancies and whims. The process happens so gradually that we tend not to be aware that we are changing.

Just as the waves wear away at the boulders along the seashore with the passing of the days and the years, so also does life, by virtue of the passage of time, familiarity, repetition and habit, wear away at the spiritual strength, equilibrium and inward purity, we have achieved through prayer, our direct line to God.

Nevertheless, we can return back to that state by rediscovering prayer, and restore ourselves by removing whatever 'viruses' have crept in bringing distortion and maladies.

Word-for-word authenticated narratives based on multiple sources and passed down by numerous narrators have given us the original template for Salah (prayer) as it was uttered and performed by the Prophet (peace be upon him) himself, who simply said, "Pray as you have seen me pray".

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kube Publishing Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780860377207
• Artikelnr.: 56790700

Autorenporträt

DR. BASSAM SAEH holds a BA in Arabic literature from Damascus University, Syria, and an MA & PhD in modern Arabic poetry from Cairo University. He has been Head of the Arabic Department in Tishreen University, Syria (1977) and has taught in a number of other universities, including: Algeria, Saudi Arabia and Oxford. He was the founder and principal of Oxford Academy for Advanced Studies (1990 - 2005). He has been presenter of several radio and TV programs and author of several books.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
Supplication
1. An Appointment with God
2. ‘And this, indeed, is a hard act...’: But Why?
3. From Duty to Privilege
4. The Satisfaction of Waking up Early for Prayer
5. The Joy of Patient Perseverance
6. Why Do we Pray?
7. The Rhythm of Prayer and the Rhythm of Life
8. Variety: The First Lesson in Civilisation
9. The Call to Prayer and its Ten Wonders
10. The Two Ritual Ablutions
11. Communal Prayer:The Key to Advancement and Civilisation
12.The Friday Khutbah (Sermon): A Course in Development
13. The Five Lines of Prayer
14. Red Key No. 1: ‘God is Greater’
15. Reading, Reciting and Chanting
16. The New Language of the Qur’an
17. Open Language and ‘Fertile Spaces’
18. The Role of the Fatihah
19. Red Key No. 2: ‘You alone do we worship, and unto You alone do we turn
for aid’
20. The Centrality of Bowing and Prostration
21. Red Key No. 3: ‘Blessed Greeting to God’
22. Red Key No. 4: ‘Peace be upon us…’
23. A Session for Supplication and Private Worship
24. Computing Profits and Losses
25. Let Your Whole Life be a Prayer
Endnotes
Index