“Khushu (reverent awe) means obeying God with fear and love; it is heartfelt reverence and submission. As for khudu, it refers to feeling utter humility before the Majesty of God; it is sincere submission. When these two are mentioned together, they define the state of a believer whose heart always beats with reverence and awe as a result of taking into consideration God Almighty’s greatness, majesty, and overwhelming transcendence together with one’s own impotence, poverty, neediness, and pettiness; it is a state when the person’s condition and statements fully reflect this consideration.”¹⁾

“Possessing a reverent awe during every single moment of the Prayer is vitally important. In this instance, reverent awe means trembling like a leaf out of respect.”²⁾

“The believer should perform the supererogatory worship as much as his power allows him and try to reach profoundness in dignity, reverent awe and humility along with the performance of obligatory worship, which is the basic essence of the path of nearness.”³⁾

“They are in their Prayer humble and fully submissive (being overwhelmed by the awe and majesty of God).” (Al-Muminun, 23:2).

“Some people of enthusiasm and spiritual pleasure prefer vanity, airs, and graces, and desire to gain people’s love and become a resort for them. They prefer all of this to giving thanks, entreating and supplicating God, and being indifferent to people’s love and attention. Whereas, the greatest spiritual rank is servanthood, and Prophet Muhammad is the most beloved in God’s sight because he was the most advanced in servanthood to God. Such servanthood is founded upon thankfulness, entreaty, supplication, pious reverence, perception of human poverty and helplessness, and indifference to people’s belongings, love, and attention.”⁴⁾

“The saintly, purified scholars, on the other hand, such as Junayd al-Baghdadi, who traveled in the light of the Prophetic lamp, always acted with self-possession, breathed with reverent awe, and their eyes twinkled with heart-felt veneration, without causing those who were incapable of traveling a spiritual path to fall into confusion or deviation.”⁵⁾

“God Almighty says to His servant: ‘Make a present of your heart-felt veneration, and the tears of your eyes to Me, and then ask Me for the gratification of whatever needs you have so that I may answer your call. For I am near and I answer the call of everyone who prays to Me.’”⁶⁾

Respect

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