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<h1 class="arabic-header">بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم</h1>
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The Essence of Salah
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<p>Imam al-Ghazzali, one of the great thinkers in Islam, said about <em>salah</em>, that it has four admiral qualities:</p>
<p class="arabic">فإن الصلاة عماد الدين, وعصام اليقين, ورأس القربات, وغرة الطاعات.</p>
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<li>The support center of the <em>Din</em>;</li>
<li>The means of holding tight to certainty;</li>
<li>The foremost means of drawing close to God;</li>
<li>The act amongst the acts of obedience to God;</li>
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<p>An <em>'imad</em> is like a tent-pole. The pole which makes the rest of the tent a place of habitation. Without it, the tent collapses. Being that the word <em>din</em> is related to <em>dayn</em>, debt, the means of supporting your debt to God is through <em>salah.</em></p>
<p><em>'Isam</em>, its literal meaning being "a strap", is a means of tying something down. The way to achieving certainty (<em>yaqin</em>) is not achieved through intellectual endeavors alone. It is achieve through habitual action. The <em>salah</em> is a means of doing that habitual action which "ties us to God".</p>
<p>Remember, the <em>ra's</em> is not only the head of something, but also a beginning. The beginning of drawing close to God begins with <em>salah</em>. You will not achieve it through any singular intellectual endeavor, no matter how smart.</p>
<p>The word <em>gurrah</em> refers to a beauty mark that the Arabs would say a horse would have on its face. A white mark. <em>Ghurrah</em>, a mark of superiority, of quality, is what's being emphasized here.</p>
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وُجوهٌ يَومَئِذٍ مُسفِرَةٌ ضاحِكَةٌ مُستَبشِرَةٌ
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وُجوهٌ يَومَئِذٍ ناضِرَةٌ
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