Protect your heart against Shaytan's whispers, deceits and traps

Feb 10, '13 1:09 PM for everyone

Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq eloquently sums the special physical and spiritual dimensions of the honorable position of Ruku': "No servant bows in the Ruku' for Allah in a true way, unless Allah adorns him with the light of His Brilliance, and shades him with the shade of His Majesty, and clothes him with the gown of His chosen friends. 

The Ruku' is first and the Sujud is second. The one who performed the first is fit for the second. The Ruku' is politeness, and the Sujud is proximity. So, the one who is not well-mannered is unfit for proximity. 

Therefore, perform the Ruku' like the one who is submitting to Allah with his heart, humble and afraid under His Sovereignty, drooping to Him his limbs like the one who is afraid and grieved for what one loses of the benefit of those who perform the Ruku'… Protect your heart against Shaytan's whispers, deceits and traps.

Allah, the Exalted, raises His servants as much as they show humility to Him, and He guides them to the principles of humility and submission as much as His Greatness knows of their secrets." (Misbah ush-Shari'ah)