⏳ Stop Rushing Your Salaah – Slowing Down to Find the Sweetness
Bismillāh.
This is a reminder first to myself, written in need, not from a place of knowing, but hoping.
If it benefits you too, then All Praise is due to Allah سبحانه وتعالى alone.
It’s so easy to fall into autopilot:
Raise hands. Recite Fātiḥah. Ruku’. Sujuud.
Outwardly, I’ve prayed. Inwardly, I’m not sure I was even present.
But the prayer was never meant to be a checklist. It was meant to be rest.
Relief.
A chance to pause the dunya. Not race through.
“Establish prayer for My remembrance.”
(Sūrah Ṭā Hā 20:14)
To taste the sweetness of Salaah, I must slow down.
📌 A Letter to Myself
Dear self,
You’ve felt that pain before. Standing before Allah, heart distracted, eyes dry, words rushed.
The Prophet ﷺ said:
“The worst thief is the one who steals from his prayer.”
They asked, “How does one steal from his prayer?”
He replied, “By not completing its bowing and prostration properly.”
(Mishkat al-Masabih 885)
This is not about performance. Salaah is your standing before Allah سبحانه وتعالى. Both in the dunya and the Akhirah.
Knowing Who you’re standing in front of.
“Indeed, the believers are successful - those who are humble in their prayer…”
(Sūrah al-Mu’minūn 23:1–2)
⚙️ What I Need To Remember to Regain Khushuʿ
🧭 Before I pray, I pause. Even for 5 seconds. I breathe and remind myself: “This is a meeting with my Rabb.”
📿 I learn the meanings of what I’m saying. Especially in Sujuud and Tashahhud.
🧱 I slow my movements, even slightly. I stop rushing Rukuʿ. I sit fully between Sujuud.
📖 I switch up the Surahs I recite to stay engaged and avoid mindless repetition.
🕯 I beg for Khushuʿ in duʿa, especially in the times where du’a is encouraged . I ask for presence and acceptance.
📌 Qur’anic Anchor
“So woe to those who pray, but are heedless of their prayer…”
(Sūrah al-Māʿūn 107:4–5)
This Ayaah isn’t warning those who don’t pray -
but those who pray without presence. Those whose Salaah is careless. Mechanical. Empty.
May Allah سبحانه وتعالى always protect us, our families and all Muslimeen from that.
🪶 To the Sister Rushing Because Life Feels Full
Slow down.
Not just for the sake of the prayer. For the sake of your own soul.
Let Salaah become your pause, your detox, your breath. Let it become a space of stillness, not another task on the to-do list.
Salim ibn AbulJa'dah said: A man said: (Mis'ar said: I think he was from the tribe of Khuza'ah): would that I had prayed, and got comfort. The people objected to him for it. Thereupon he said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: O Bilal, call iqamah for prayer: give us comfort by it.
(Sunan Abi Dawud 4985)
We’ll never regret the moments we slow down for Allah.
“Prostrate and draw near.”
(Sūrah al-ʿAlaq 96:19)
That’s what it’s always been about.
Sincerely,
still learning, still trying —
your sister in need of Allah.
