Remember

alathariyyah:

“The comfort and rest of the lover and the pleasure of his eye lies in the prayer but the unmindful one who turns away has no share of this. Rather the prayer is too great and burdensome for him. When he stands (for prayer) it is as if he is standing on hot coals, until he finishes from the obligatory section of the prayer. He hastens it and speeds (his performance of it). Thus, there is no pleasure of the eye for him in it and there is no rest and comfort for his heart in it. 

Yet the servant, when his eye finds pleasure in something and his heart finds comfort in it, then the hardest thing for him is to separate from it. But the pretender, whose heart is empty of Allaah’s remembrance and the home of the hereafter and who is put to trial by the world, the hardest thing for him is the prayer and the most hated thing to him is it’s lengthiness, even though he is sound in health, idle and unoccupied.”

Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah, The Path to Guidance, page 34-35. Will post ‘The Prayer of the Lovers’ soon inshaa’ Allah, very beneficial! 

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