Thirty & Up: Spiritual Development for Adults | Ustadh AbdelRahman Murphy

Thirty and Up - Ghazali’s Book of Prayer: The Merits of the Masjid and The Place of Prayer

Thirty & Up: imagine having such quality of prayer that you were able to focus out the small noises and distractions that chip away at your attention.⁠

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Imam al Ghazali gives some amazing stories regarding the people of piety and their ability to focus on their prayer - one of them even continuing to pray as a part of the building he was in crumbled, no realizing that anything had happened until he completed his prayer.⁠

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Can you imagine?⁠

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The goal of reading this text together is to explore how to attain these amazing secrets of better prayer together.

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Thirty & Up - Ghazali’s Book of Prayer, The Virtue of Sujood and Khushoo

Thirty & Up: tonight's reading of Ghazali's Book on The Secrets of Prayer will focus on the the virtue of sajdah - the different blessings that accompany the person who puts the most honored piece of their body - their face - on the floor in a position of submission to Allah.⁠

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Imam al Ghazali provides narrations that illustrate the blessings that come to someone who regularly engages in the act of sajdah as part of their prayer, bringing life to the prayer of the person performing it.⁠

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Thirty & Up 3 - The Virtue of Completing the Prayer Totally

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Thirty & Up - Hadith 42 - The Expansive Forgiveness of Allah

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Thirty & Up - Hadith 41 ”None of you truly believe until...”

Tonight's hadith, number 41, is a another narration that is short-yet-powerful. The Prophet ﷺ gives us a means of checking our status of belief when he ﷺ begins a narration with "none of you [truly] believe until..." followed by a way for one to know the health of their Iman.⁠

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In this particular narration, the attached condition is that a person's true belief is verified by the alignment of what Islam teaches with what the heart of the person desires - easier said than done, but a goal that each of us should have nonetheless.⁠

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How can we get to the point where we desire that which is beneficial for us?

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Thirty & Up - Hadith 40 - Living in this life like a traveler

Tonight's narration for Thirty & Up is a well-known statement of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, "be in this world like a traveler..."

The lessons in this hadith are far-reaching, despite the brevity of the words themselves, the teaching allows much room for reflection.

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Thirty & Up - Hadith 36 ”Whoever gives relief to a believer...”

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Thirty and Up - Hadith 33: The methodology of dealing with wrong

Tonight’s Hadith is the Prophetic way of dealing with mistakes and immorality. When we see something around us that we know is incorrect, how do we address it? Do we physically change it? Do we have to speak out against it, no matter the consequences? Am I weak in faith if I feel bad but am not able to get myself to act to change what I see?⁠

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