{"id":14300,"date":"2026-04-14T07:37:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=14300"},"modified":"2026-04-14T07:37:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:37:50","slug":"what-kind-of-salah-are-you-praying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=14300","title":{"rendered":"What Kind Of Salah Are You Praying?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;color: #808000\">What Kind Of Salah Are You Praying?<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">Breaking away from an overloaded daily schedule with so many things to do, I seek refugee in Allah; turning to Him in Salah. Yet, as soon I start praying and say <i>Allahu Akbar<\/i> (God is the Greatest) many things, even trivial details, are going on my mind, distracting me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">Does this happen to you too? As soon as you stand in Salah you are distracted by many thoughts? How could I be standing between God\u2019s hands and still be overwhelmed by other things whatsoever?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">How could I prevent that mixing<i>\u00a0<\/i>between contacting with God and thinking in other things\u00a0in\u00a0<i>salah<\/i>?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">Allah Almighty says:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;padding-right: 30px\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\"><span style=\"color: #008000\"><strong> Successful indeed are the believers, who are humble in their prayers\u2026 <\/strong><\/span>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.learning-quran.com\/quran-translations\/en-translation\/al-ajmi-al-ghamidi-and-al-lahuni\/recitation-surat-al-muminun-3\/\">Al-Mu\u2019minun<\/a> 23:1, 2)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">How could I attain total <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prayerinislam.com\/fatwas-rulings\/focus-more-in-prayer\/\">khushu<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>(humility and submission) in Prayer? How could I stand before God thinking in Him alone? What am I asked to do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif\">Here Nouman Ali Khan raises these questions, explaining how to reach <i>khushu`<\/i>, get entirely engaged in Prayer &#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"width: 0px;overflow: hidden;line-height: 0\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><a href='https:\/\/prayerinislam.com\/what-kind-of-salah-are-you-praying\/' target='_blank'>Soucre Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How could I be standing before God and still be thinking about other things whatsoever? Does this happen to you too\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1563,2315],"tags":[8899,8900,4638,8901,8902,9,8903,8904,2380,29,8905,8906],"class_list":["post-14300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prayer-in-islam","category-why-we-pray","tag-challenging-act-of-worship","tag-concentrate-in-prayer","tag-deep-belief","tag-distraction-in-prayer","tag-engaged-in-prayer","tag-featured","tag-humble-believers","tag-humility-and-submission-to-god","tag-khushu-in-salah","tag-nouman-khan","tag-stand-before-god","tag-what-kind-of-salah-are-you-praying"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Prayer-The-Challenging-Act-of-Worship.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}