Introduction and Acknowledgments

Foreword

Author’s Biography

Introduction to Prayer

Strategies for Concentrating In Prayer

Conclusion

Learning to Focus and Concentrate on your Daily Prayer A Complete 30-Day Workbook

The main goal of this book is to educate the Muslims of the importance
of The Five Daily Prayers and to explain how to create, develop and
maintain concentration in Prayer.


Concentration in Prayer

Conclusion
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al-Khomeini’s comments on the finality of Prayer fits best the
conclusion of this short book on Prayer. We anticipate the readers to
read and study this book to reap the benefits, and we hope the exercises
and the 30-day workout has been useful.

As you utter the takbir (ALLAHU AKBAR), regard small all creatures in
relation to the greatness of Allah (SWT). Examine your heart during the
Prayer. If you tasted the sweetness of the Prayer, and if in your soul
you felt pleased by it, and your heart enjoyed the supplication to Allah
(SWT) and conversing with Him, stow that Allah (SWT) has approved your
takbirs. Otherwise, without feeling pleasure in supplication, and being
deprived of tasting the sweetness of worship, you should know that Allah
(SWT) has denied you and dismissed you from His Threshold.’  
*(Mustadrak al-Wasa’il, The Book of Prayer, Chapter on The Acts of
Prayer, Chapter 2, Tradition 9)*

My God, grant me the utmost absorption in You and illuminate the vision
of our hearts with the light of Your Vision, until the sight of the
hearts can penetrate the curtains of light and reach the source of
Greatness and until our spirits get anchored to the threshold of Your
Sanctity.

*(Munajat-e Sha'baniyyah – Mafatih al-Jinaan)*


