Prayers are comprehensive form of submissiveness, Imam Khomeini explained

Prayers are comprehensive form of submissiveness, Imam Khomeini explained

According to Imam Khomeini, one of the things necessary for the sālik in all his worships, especially in theSalat, which is at the head of all worships and has a position of comprehensiveness [jāmi'iyyat], is submissiveness [khushū'].

 It is, in fact, a complete submission [khudū'] mixed with love or fear. It is the result of comprehending the Greatness, Power and Majesty of Beauty and Glory. The detail of this generality is that the hearts of the people of sulūk are different according to their disposition and nature:

Some of the hearts are amorous and of the manifestations of Beauty [jamāl] and, driven by their nature, they are attracted to the Beauty of the Beloved, Imam Khomeini explained.

When, in the sulūk, they comprehend the shadow of the Beautiful, or witness the origin of the Beauty, the Greatness hidden in the secret of the Beauty effaces them, and they go into rapture, for in every beauty there is a hidden glory, and in every glory there is a covered beauty.

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