{"id":6568,"date":"2024-07-10T07:43:31","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/fighting-away-distraction-in-the-salah\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T13:20:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T13:20:58","slug":"fighting-away-distraction-in-the-salah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/fighting-away-distraction-in-the-salah\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Away Distraction In The Salah"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>My question is that when I am in prayer various thoughts come to my mind and disturb me. How can I pray with concentration? <\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>This  happens to all the humans. No one can claim to have attained complete  freedom from this human element. That is why we are not accountable for  such thoughts. We need to try to bring our mind back to the worship. The  best way to fight these distractions is to concentrate on the meaning  of the recitations in the Prayer. It would be even more helpful if one  tries try to recite only those <em>surahs<\/em> the meaning of which he knows. One must also learn the meaning of what is routinely recited in the prayer. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Tariq Mahmood Hashmi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-02-21<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6568\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My question is that when I am in prayer various thoughts come to my mind and disturb me. 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