Thus, the human being is exalted to the vanishing point of servitude. Our daily salaats are in the nature of training for such a magnificent exaltation. In other words, all believers, in whatever form, increase their morals by salaat and reach the dignity of humanity. Today, hundreds of millions of people in the world are praying with their deficiencies and mistakes. In that case, we should always be longing for and striving for moral exaltation while we pray. Of course, reaching the salaat of praise worthy of Allah Almighty is a difficult matter of purification. However, escaping from this beautiful education by not finding the salaats he performs sufficient means losing the most beautiful of blessings. The form of the salaat, the prayers read, the verses in the salaat and the dhikr are the motives of the real salaat. No matter how shallow we pray, we follow these rules. You don't need to mix deep information to understand and describe the real salaat anyway. Only if we understand what we say to Allah Almighty in salaat and in the movements of salaat, we will understand how great wisdom salaat is.
A MEASUREMENT FOR PERFECTION
Man is like a point dancing between the nafs and the heart. As you get closer to the nafs, the salaat stays on the surface, and the closer you get to the heart, the deeper the salaat. In this respect, salaat is also a measure for us in terms of perfection. In that case, the first condition of understanding salaat is; It is to recognize that salaat is not a fixed pattern, but an activity that takes people from the zero point and purifies them towards the highest. Everyone himself has noticed that; The salaats we perform both in the time salaat and on various days are not the same. In addition to the salaats we perform in ecstasy, we have many salaats that we perform on the surface. We can explain this fact with an analogy: If the truth of salaat is accepted as the unopened bud of a rose, we have to cross many layers of rose petals to reach it. The most superficial leaves are the salaats we perform among our daily occupations. We perform them more peaceful and emotional, the salaats represent the innermost leaves.
If we pray by staying on the surface all the time, our starting point is intertwined with the nafs. On the contrary, if we are purifying, if we feel the pleasure of salaat, it means that we are approaching the heart. Salaat is an act of worship that all believers must follow throughout life. Therefore, it is the biggest factor that draws our characters. To oppose salaat by looking at people who have behaviors that we do not like in moral stereotypes, even though they are praying; It is like getting angry with the engineer who built the wrong building and making the ignorant master do it. An important reason for this image; It is the mistake of most of us to stereotype the salaat without knowing the truth in salaat and without trying to learn it. Recognizing salaat as an indispensable life of morality, I think, will solve these dead ends.
Salaat
* Salaat reveals the secret of the perfect creation (more beatiful than beatiful creation) in human.
* It is a happy journey on the holy road to Almighty God.
* Strength to the body, clarity to the nafs, peace to the soul; It is a divine feast that pleases the heart.
* Salaat is an unlimited praise of the servant in the presence of Almighty God, the pleasure of living the power of Subhan alongside his own nothingness.
* Salaat is the vibration of the servant in the magnetic field of the intolerable coyness.
* Salaat is a miracle of Muhammad (PBUH) in which the secret of Fatiha is opened and purified us in divine presence.
* We will never abandon salaat, no matter how superficial it is. However, we will try to get closer to the truth of salaat every day, or rather, at every opportunity.
Salaat is the Miraj, in which Allah Almighty watches His magnificent artistry in the heart of the Muslim. Thus, salaat is a sultanate of Muhammad (PBUH), in which the human being is completely transferred to the meaning, to the infinity of the universes, including his body.
Even the most superficial one of this incredible dhikr brings divine pleasure. Undoubtedly, we need to be conscious of the perception of such an incredible blessing in the presence of Almighty God. The fact that salaat is such an important worship requires meticulous preparation.
An unchanging rule is that the main goal of salaat is real salaat. However, It is true that every salaat that does not have the smell of hypocrisy, is accepted by Allah Almighty. How can we be worthy of salaat by developing a system that is in line with the morals of our Prophet (PBUH) in the salaats we perform five times a day for life? If a servant abandons the salaat, saying that I cannot perform the real salaat, he will fall into heedlessness, such as resigning from his servitude. Again, if a servant imitates only the form of salaat until he dies, because every form of salaat is accepted; If he does not feel the pleasure of it, it will deny the secret of the perfection in himself. In that case, we will never abandon salaat, no matter how shallow it is. However, we will try to get closer to the truth of salaat every day, or rather, at every opportunity.
There are many stages between a formal salaat and a real salaat. That is, two definitions cannot be made for a salaat as "either imitation or real". If we count the imitation salaat as the outermost shell; There are thousands of folds of salaat towards the true salaat in the core. So, what we have to do is to pass these stages gradually and to try to get closer to the real salaat.
Dr. Haluk Nurbaki