Khusyuk Dalam Solat

Rasulullah SAW bersabda,
"Berapa banyak orang yang mendirikan solat, tetapi yang di perolehi hanya penat dan letih, kerana mereka itu lalai dalam sembahyangnya".
"Aku selalu mengingati mati dalam sembahyang."
"Apabila kamu sembahyang anggaplah sembahyang ini sembahyang perpisahan".

Khusyuk ialah hati sentiasa hidup.
Untuk khusyuk dalam solat, perlu amalan berikut:
1. Jaga makan minum, pakaian, tempat tinggal dll supaya datang dari punca yang halal tanpa syubhah.
2. Fikiran tidak liar. Sebelum solat lintaskan kematian seakan-akan amat hampir dengan kita. Anggap setiap solat adalah solat kita yang terakhir.
3. Dirikan solat di awal waktu atau pertengahan waktu supaya tidak gopoh apabila masa hampir luput.
4. Baca dengan baik (khusnul qori'ah), berusaha untuk faham bacaan dalam solat termasuk ayat Al-Quran yang dibacakan itu terutama sekali Al Fatihah, gerakan dan maknanya (tafakhum).
5. Lakukan rukun-rukun solat secara tertib. Berusaha menyedari bahawa (khudunul qolbih) Allah memerhati sembahyang kita.
6. Ada rasa malu (haya') dan takut (khauf) terhadap kekuasaan Allah.
7. Berharap serta yakin Allah menerima solat dan amal kita.
8. Hati diajak hadir dalam solat iaitu kosongkan hati dari segala urusan yang boleh mengganggu dan yang tidak berkaitan dengan solat.
9. Membesarkan serta merasakan kehebatan Allah dalam solat.
10. Gunakan sejadah yang tidak terlalu banyak gambar yang boleh khayalkan pemikiran.
11. Dirikan solat secara berjemaah.
12. Ambil wuduk dengan sempurna.
13. Kurangkan pergerakan anggota seperti tangan dan kaki; mata ditumpukan kepada tempat sujud dan ketika tasahut lihat anak jari.
14. Azan dan iqamat terlebih dahulu walaupun mendirikan sembahyang bersendirian ataupun sekurang-kurangnya iqamat sahaja.
15. Baca surah An-Nas sebelum solat akan dapat membantu untuk kita khusyuk ketika solat nanti.

Outcasts

To the residents of Yarpur basti in the heart of Patna, there is nothing extraordinary in the friendship between Mohammed Jaleel and Ganesh Ram Bara. Both of them, in their mid-sixties, had worked together for many decades in the Patna Municipal Corporation as sanitation workers. They spent much of their lives in Yarpur, locally called dom basti or bhangi basti in a disparaging reference to the caste of the sanitation workers. Their work involved a variety of tasks, such as sweeping the roads, unclogging gutters, cleaning toilets, carrying filth and disposing of waste, aimed at keeping Bihar's capital city clean.

Because of the nature of their job both Jaleel and Bara faced the same kind of societal exclusion.

"No Brahmin or Rajput would come to my house or drink a glass of water from my hands. No Sayed or Mallik would go to Jaleel's house or have a glass of water from his hands," says Bara. "All our social gatherings are essentially among sanitation workers, both Hindu and Muslim."

Obviously, Jaleel and Bara have led strikingly similar lives. Their day-to-day social experiences too are similar. Yet, in the eyes of the government, Jaleel is more privileged than Bara. Throughout his service, Bara had enjoyed some benefits because the Hindu safai karmachari community was absorbed in the Scheduled Castes (S.C.) list.

Jaleel never got the same benefit because he is a Muslim. "We tried to enlist ourselves as beneficiaries of various government schemes, including education schemes, which our Hindu brethren enjoy, but we were rejected each time on the grounds that we were Muslims," said Jaleel's daughter, Najma Khatun.

But this is not the story of one Jaleel and his family. Dalit Muslims across Bihar and other parts of North India who belong to castes such as Jolaha, Nutt, Bakkho, Bhatiyara, Kunjra, Dhunia, Kalal, Dafali, Dhobi, Lalbegi, Gorkan, Meershikar, Cheek and Rangrez, have the same low social ranking and are deprived of the benefit others enjoy. In many parts of North India, many of these communities have separate mosques and bury their dead in separate graveyards.

According to Mohammed Usman Halal Khor, general secretary of the All India Pasmanda Muslim Mahaj (AIPMM), a Bihar-based organisation of Dalits and Most Backward Caste (MBC) Muslims, the socially and educationally backward communities among Muslims "are not accepted or treated as equals by elite Muslim communities and even by sections of the clergy. They are subject to the same social discrimination faced by Dalit Hindus. Yet, Dalit Muslims are deemed ineligible for the government benefits given to Dalit Hindus."

Of the total Muslim youth in the 18 to 25 age group, a mere 8.1 per cent are in college (Hindus: 18.7 per cent; Christians: 20.5 per cent), 6.2 per cent alone are engaged in other studies (Hindus: 9.9; Christians 14.9); 30.5 per cent are employed (Hindus: 32.3; Christians 32.7) and 55.2 per cent are unemployed (Hindus: 39.1 per cent; Christians 31.9 per cent). Muslims have clicked `Pause' on education only to their disadvantage even in a progressive society that has nurtured their interests throughout history.

(excerpt: hinduonnet)