| How can one take their worship up a level in this blessed month of Ramadan? Here are 6 things that will help you take your worship up a level: |
Just focus
Bring yourself to the present moment and truly experience it all. When you wake up for the pre-dawn meal (suhoor), donāt do it heavily, dragging your weight about while groggily shoving food down to sustain you for the day. Instead, do it with purpose. Plan to wake up simply because it is a sunnah of our ProphetĀ ļ·ŗ,Ā and because you know there are blessings in it.
Learn the words
When you stand for your salah, it has little impact when you donāt know what youāre actually reciting. Start small. Study the meanings of the various phrases said in salah as you transition from one position to another; study the meaning of Al-Fatiha if you donāt know it already. And when you know it, feel every verse. If youāre not sure where to start, why not download our Tell Me How to Pray E-Book.
Talk to Allah
More than anything else, Ramadan should be about building our relationship with Allah. And it only makes sense that part of the reason we feel disconnected and unconscious in our worship is because we donāt know who weāre worshipping, or who weāre talking to. To start to find out more about Allah swt, why not download our Tell Me About Allah E-Book.
You will stumble
You might fall. But the absolute most important thing is that you never stop trying. If you slip up one day and feel like your fast has been empty, void of all consciousness of what you were doing and why donāt use that as the go-ahead for the rest of your month. Use it as a turning point and a reminder of what you should be working for. And when you know it, feel every verse. If youāre not sure where to start, why not download our Tell Me How to Pray E-Book.
Do only as much as you can handle
Donāt become overzealous, planning to do everything that gets reward during this month. Hours of lengthy Qurāan recitation cease to be meaningful when youāre reciting just to get through them but your heart is not connected.
Remember the reward
Our hunger means nothing when it is mindless and unconscious of Allah. we need to remind ourselves of our reward with Allah. Without that, everything is pointless and empty.
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Adapted from an article posted by Free Quran Education
