Let’s Fix your Salah: How to gain khushoo by Shaykh Haytham Tamim

• Revive your salah: Move beyond routine and turn your prayer into a powerful spiritual experience.
• Understand what you recite: Deepen your connection through comprehension.
• Develop focus and tranquility: Overcome distractions and find peace in prayer.
• Practical and transformative: Learn applicable techniques to improve your salah instantly.

Take the first step towards transforming your salah and strengthening your connection with Allah. Enrol now!

4 Sessions

Session 1: Understanding the Purpose of Salah

• Salah as total connectivity with Allah
• Understanding distractions and how to overcome them
• Prayer as light – the spiritual impact of salah
• Salah as a personal conversation with Allah
• How salah embodies all five pillars of Islam
• The obligation of salah and its historical significance
• Salah as a gift and a means of bliss
• How praying on time reflects your priorities
• Managing salah in busy schedules (meetings, travel, etc.)
• Straightening your salah to straighten your life

Session 2: The prerequisites and pillars of salah

• The five key prerequisites of salah:
• The process of wudu (ablution) and its nullifiers
• Tayammum (dry ablution) when water is unavailable
• The Arkan (pillars) of Salah:
  • Takbir al-Ihram (Allahu Akbar) – its significance
  • The standing posture (qiyam) and reciting Quran
  • Bowing (ruku’) and prostration (sujood)
  • The final sitting (tashahhud)
• The wajib (obligatory) acts of salah
• What invalidates salah and how to correct mistakes
• Sujood as-Sahw (prostration for forgetfulness)
• Special circumstances: praying while traveling, illness, and finding alternative methods

Session 3: Developing khushoo’ (focus and presence in salah)

• Understanding the importance of presence of heart in salah
• The six essential elements for khushoo’:
• Techniques to block distractions during prayer
• How external factors (sleep, diet, and routine) affect khushoo’
• Recognising Shaytan’s attacks during ibadah
• How numbness in salah can be overcome
• Unblocking your spiritual connection with Allah

Session 4: The words and movements of salah

• The significance of timing in the five daily prayers
• Understanding the deep meanings of what we recite:
  • Takbeer al-Ihram – the power of “Allahu Akbar”
  • Surah Al-Fatiha – the core of salah
  • The short surahs after Fatiha
  • Ruku’ (bowing) – submission and humility
  • Sujood (prostration) – the closest position to Allah
  • At-Tahiyyat and sending salutations upon the Prophet ﷺ
• How recitation style impacts khushoo’
• Ghafla (heedlessness) vs. mindfulness in salah
• Waswas (whispers of Shaytan) and how to counter them
• The spiritual and psychological impact of salah