When the Heart Leaves the Prayer Before the Body Does
The spiritual decline of the Ummah does not begin with abandoning prayer altogether, but with the quiet loss of khushuʿ—presence of heart—in ṣalāh. When prayer becomes rushed, distracted, and mechanical, its soul is slowly stripped away while its outer form remains. Over time, a prayer without khushūʿ loses its power to restrain sin, soften the heart, or connect the servant to Allah. If this neglect continues unchecked, even the outward performance of prayer eventually weakens and is abandoned. This is why guarding khushūʿ is not a luxury of the spiritually elite, but a protective wall around ṣalāh itself—when khushuʿ is preserved, prayer is preserved; and when it is neglected, the prayer is already slipping away, even if we are still standing and bowing.
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