Al-Mu'minun 9: And they (mü’min) are the ones who establish (continue with) their prayers.

A. Metin Saruhan · 29 September 2016 · Al-Mu'minun

Translation

And they (mü’min) are the ones who establish (continue with) their prayers.

Tafsir

Believers, who make a covenant with Allah (swt) in Kalu Bela, just as they are meticulous about the covenants they make with people, make a good covenant with Allah (swt), and as they live their lives in this world, in line with their covenant with Allah (swt), they write their own wills as their destiny, and they get rid of the bad traits that Allah (swt) does not like. They cleanse their hearts of the unnecessary and strengthen their faith with the covenant they have made with Allah through prayer and worship. They are scrupulous about the covenants they have made with Allah in their worldly lives.

Therefore, a believer not only prays the five daily prayers, but also the tahajjud prayers, the nafil prayers, and the prayers of the morning, the so-called duhan prayers, and adheres strictly to the obligatory and sunnah prayers.

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We have come to verse 9 of Surah Al-Mu'minun.

And those who keep up their prayers.

Just as believers are careful about the covenants they give to people, the believers who made a covenant with Allah Almighty at Qalu Bala, since they gave Allah Almighty a good covenant, while living their worldly lives, since, in line with the covenant they gave Allah Almighty, they had their own aims written for them as destiny, they cast their bad traits that would not please Allah off themselves, they cleanse their hearts of worldly attachments and, with prayer and worship, through the covenants they gave Allah, strengthen their faith. In their worldly lives too, they are careful about the covenants they gave Allah.

Therefore, just as the believer performs his five daily prayers, in addition he performs the tahajjud prayer, voluntary prayers and the forenoon prayers called duha, holding tightly to the extra sunnahs and observing them. Moreover, whenever they find the chance, these believers remember Allah Almighty. Also, of the people of whom He says, I have servants whom neither buying nor trading keeps from My remembrance, in the state of such people, a person, absent-mindedness aside, absent-mindedness, for Allah Almighty created us among the group of the forgetful. Apart from these, never from that person's mind does Allah leave; in everything he does, in every word he speaks he speaks with regard to Allah's pleasure, he speaks with words that correspond to the verses. And in his buying and trading, so that Allah may be pleased with me, he treats the person before him with goodwill, and when he trades with him in a way that satisfies him, because Allah is constantly on his mind, that too is a state of remembrance.

So, neither buying nor trading keeps him from My remembrance, He says; the meaning of that verse is what these people live. Can there be such a person? I have lived it. Believe it or not. And I am still living it. When I talk with you, get angry, shout, or in any way say something to you, I never say it putting Allah out of mind. I say all of it for Allah and for the training of your nafs, millimetre by millimetre, step by step, following you closely.

From your movements I understand what state you are in.

I know what passes through your heart at that moment. And then I treat you accordingly. If I treat you kindly, if I say words that please you, know that your heart was hurt by me, I am trying to win your heart back.

If I keep beating you and you say, I deserve this, you have reformed your nafs well, you rise by a degree. This is the (?) of the nafs. This is the sheikh's duty. The sheikh is an actor. He plays the written script very well. And Allah gives him a beautiful light of faith.

Beware of the believer's insight, he sees with Allah's light, it says. Yes. A person not in this state cannot act as a sheikh. He cannot train the nafs.