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الصَّلَاةُ طُهْرَةٌ لِلْقُلُوبِ مِنْ أَدْنَاسِ الذُّنُوبِ وَاسْتِفْتَاحٌ لِبَابِ الْغُيُوبِ

The ritual prayer is a purification for hearts from the defilements of sins, and an opening of the door to the unseen worlds.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

كما روى فى الحديث الصحيح عن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم من قوله انما مثل الصلاة كمثل نهر عذب غمر بباب أحدكم يقتحم فيه كل يوم خمس مرات فما ترون ذلك أيبقى من درنه شيأ … لأن القلوب اذا طهرت وتزكت رفع عنها الحجب والاستار فرأت ما غاب عنها من الاسرار

As is related in the sound (*ṣaḥīḥ*) hadith from the Messenger of God (God bless him and grant him peace), among his sayings: "The likeness of prayer is none other than the likeness of a sweet, abundant river at the door of one of you, into which he plunges five times every day. What do you think of that: would it leave anything of his grime (*daran*)?" … For when hearts are purified and made pure (*tazakkat*), the veils (*ḥujub*) and screens (*astār*) are lifted from them, and they see the secrets (*asrār*) that had been hidden from them

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 105 (printed p. 101) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 105 (printed p. 101)

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