1. Before standing
up for Prayer, try to deal with all the minor urgent matters which demand your
attention. If you are pressed by hunger, eat first; if you are pressed to
attend to the call of nature, relieve
yourself; if you are the parent of an infant, feed him or her, or keep him or
her busy.
2. Perform your wudu’ (ablution) well, paying due
care and attention.
3. Approach the Prayer with zest and passion as if
it is the last prayer in your life before dying. Actually the Prophet (peace
and blessings be upon him) taught us that we could do nothing in this world
that could ever surpass Prayer in merit and excellence.
4. Visualize that in your Prayer you are going to
have a special audience with Allah, Lord of the worlds, and that you are
enjoying a direct communion with Him—which, in fact, is true.
5. Think of the Prayer you are performing as if it
were the last Prayer of your life. In fact, it could very well be the last one,
since no one is given a guarantee that he would live to perform another Prayer.
6. Picture the scene of the Last Day when people
will be lined up into two groups, one destined for Heaven, and another for
Hell, and ask yourself where you would be placed.
7. Focus your mind on what you are reading in your
Prayer and recite simple suurats that you understand it's meaning and ponder on
the meaning whiles u recite.
8. If, in spite of your best efforts, your mind is
still wandering, seek refuge in Allah and bring your mind back to Prayer.
9. Pray to Allah and beg Him to grant you true the
joy of concentrating in your Prayer and protection against the wanderings of
your mind.
10. Place your eyesight to the one spot where you
will be making your sujuud while you recite and avoid taking your eyes from
that spot.
May Allah protect us from the tricks of shaitan
during prayers and forgive us our mistakes.
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