Soaring to the Only Beloved A short treatise on the presence of heart in prayer

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Title: Soaring to the only beloved A short treatise on the presence of heart in prayer

Author(s): Abu Muhammad Zaynu and 039;l and 039;Abidin

Publisher(s): Qum: Ansariyan, 2009=1388.

Category: Salaat (Ritual Prayer) Spirituality

Topic Tags: Salaat Prayer

ISBN: 978-964-438-485-1

Appearance: 72 p

Congress Classification: BP186/ز9س9 1388

Dewey decimal classification: 297/353

National bibliography number: 1859532

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سرشناسه : زین العابدین، ابومحمد، 1971 - م.

Zaynul-Abidin, Abu Muhammad

عنوان و نام پدیدآور : Soaring to the only beloved A short treatise on the presence of heart in prayer/ Abu Muhammad Zaynul Abidin.

مشخصات نشر : Qum: Ansariyan, 2009=1388.

مشخصات ظاهری : 72ص.

شابک : 978-964-438-485-1

وضعیت فهرست نویسی : فیپا

یادداشت : انگلیسی.

آوانویسی عنوان : سُورینگ تو د ...

موضوع : نماز

رده بندی کنگره : BP186/ز9س9 1388

رده بندی دیویی : 297/353

شماره کتابشناسی ملی : 1859532

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This concise treatise is aimed at making us realize the necessity, possibility, and methodology of attaining this vital spirit of prayer (Salat).

Dedication

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِیمِ

O Allah, I humbly present this short treatise to our beloved guide, Imam Ali (`a)- Imam al-Arifin (the doyen of the saints), whose total attention to the Only Beloved in prayers was not deterred even by the removal of an arrow that had pierced his blessed foot.

Qum al-Muqaddasah

In the close Neighborhood of the ever resplendent lady, Fatima, named by her brother- Imam Ali al-Rida (`a), as al-Ma'suma (the infallible one) may Allah imbue our hearts with intense love for her, and may He emancipate us by her intercession. Amin

Preface

In the Name of Allah, the All Merciful, the Ever Merciful

The Holy Qur'an says:

یَا أَیُّهَا الْإِنسَانُ إِنَّکَ کَادِحٌ إِلَی رَبِّکَ کَدْحاً فَمُلَاقِیهِ

O Human being,

Surely you are striving

Towards your Lord

Laboriously,

And you shall meet Him(1)

Addressed to the Human being.

The Human Being is struggling on a path

The path leads to His Lord

The struggle is laborious

He would meet His Lord

Rumi in his celebrated masterpiece, Mathnawi metaphorically and in a beautiful style begins by narrating the speech of the human soul who is at pain and yearns to return back to his dwelling of peace:

Hearken to the reed-flute(2), how it complains,

Lamenting its banishment from its home:

"Ever since they tore me from my osier bed,

My plaintive notes have moved men and women to

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