UP TO 15 INTENTIONS WHEN GOING FOR SALAAH
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Mazahirul Haq states that when a person comes for Jamaat Salaah
he can make up to fifteen intentions. If a person manages to make
all fifteen intentions then it is as though he has come seventy five
times to the Masjid. Who will come 75 times to the Masjid, yet by
making the Niyyat one attains the reward of coming seventy five
times to the Masjid.
After practising upon this a few times, it will
become routine. The moment you start an Amal, the intention will
follow suit. When starting to eat one will recite Bismillah
automatically. Spending forty days in the Khanqah is absolutely
effective in developing these things. What to say then about four
forty day periods? In a four month period a complete change comes
into the life of a person, just as life is put into a baby after four
months.
When proceeding to the Masjid, make intention of making Salaam
to people or responding to those that make Salaam. In a narration of Kanzul Ummal, if one makes Salaam to twenty people a day he gets
the death of a Shaheed. This is all achieved on the basis of Niyyat.
Another intention when proceeding to the Masjid is that you will
accept the advice offered by people. If there is an opportunity, I will
advise the people. I will be in the best place on the surface of the
earth, I will engage in Duas, Muhaasaba, Muraaqaba, etc. The
intelligence of a person is how can he bring out these things and
thereby make his Deen valuable.
This is the month of Ramdaan that is coming, we should try and make as many
Khatms as possible. Ibn Katheer has written that there are so
many intentions that can be made when reciting Quraan Sharif.
These intentions have all been listed on the website. One page of
Quraan recited with intention is far superior to reciting a complete
Para without any intention.
One Niyyat that one should make is that
this is the speech of Allah Ta'ala by which I will attain a close connection
with Allah Ta;ala. If Quraan is recited without understanding then too
Allah Ta'ala will bless a person with the Haqeeqat of Deen. An ordinary
person will be bestowed with deep understanding of Deen even
more than an Alim who has studied the science of Tafseer and has
perhaps written on the subject as well.
There are many things that we learn from the elderly people. It is
mentioned, Question the Ulema, sit with the elderly, mix with the wise (Allah
Wala) A person that is advising his wife and children should make an
intention of all the children of the world and Allah Ta'ala will convey the
message. Ibrahim alayhis salaam was commanded to call the people towards
Makkah Sharif for Haj. He said, “O Allah! I am in the barren lands of
Makkah where there isn’t a single soul, who will listen to this
message of mine?” Allah Ta'ala said, “Your duty is to call, and my duty is
to convey.” How didn’t Allah Ta'ala convey the message! So, Allah will
convey the message, and you will get the reward whether Allah conveys the message or not.