{"id":6935,"date":"2014-12-10T05:36:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T03:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=6935"},"modified":"2014-11-20T14:38:42","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T12:38:42","slug":"meditation-and-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=6935","title":{"rendered":"Meditation and Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/heart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"234\" height=\"215\" alt=\"heart\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3899\" src=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/heart.jpg\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 184px; margin: 5px;\" \/><\/a>We hear the word &ldquo;muraaqabah &#8211; meditation and reflection&rdquo;, but what does it mean? In essence it is to engage the mind in a thought that will bring one closer to Allah Ta&lsquo;ala. For example, contemplating over the life after death (the grave or Jannat and Jahannam etc.).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Allah Ta&lsquo;ala speaks of the intelligent ones. They are the ones who apart from zikr, also contemplate and reflect over the greatness and majesty of Allah Ta&lsquo;ala in His creation. It is this reflection that brings about a whole revolution in one&rsquo;s life.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/majlis-programmes\/ramadhaan-1435\/2524-night-majlis-tuesday-25th-ramadhaan-22nd-july.html\">Al-Haadi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We hear the word &ldquo;muraaqabah &#8211; meditation and reflection&rdquo;, but what does it mean? In essence it is to engage the mind in a thought that will bring one closer to Allah Ta&lsquo;ala. For example, contemplating over the life after death (the grave or Jannat and Jahannam etc.). Allah Ta&lsquo;ala speaks of the intelligent ones. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[410,17],"class_list":["post-6935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-mufti-ebrahim-salejee","category-malfoozaat","tag-malfoozaat","tag-mufti-ebrahim-salejee-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6936,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935\/revisions\/6936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}