Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali
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This is a treatise we have written concerning humility (Khushu’) and the
hearts meekness and breaking (inkisar) before the Lord. The basic
meaning of Khushu’, is the softness of the heart, its being gentle,
still, submissive, broken, and yearning. When the heart is humble, so
too is the hearing, seeing, heard, and face; indeed all the limbs and
their actions are humbled, even speech. This is why the Prophet (saw)
would say in his bowing (ruku), “My hearing, sight, bones, and marrow
are humbled to You,” another narration has, “and whatever my foot
carries.” One of the Salaf saw a man fidgeting in his prayer and
remarked, ‘If the heart of this person was humble, so too would his
limbs be.’ The source of the Khushu, that takes place in the heart is
the gnosis of Allah’s greatness, magnificence, and perfection. Teh more
gnosis a person has of Allah, the more Khushu’ he has. The greatest
action of worship which manifests the Khushu, of the body to Allah is
the prayer (Salaah). Allah has praised those who have Khushu’ in the
prayer.
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