Re: Inner peace …
Salaam, After reading your posts of being a Type A personality, several times, I had to read up on what a type A personality is.
But even before I did, I immediately wanted to suggest that you don’t categorise yourself as a personality type. If you define yourself by something, you’re telling yourself you are that, and thus are fueling that definition subconsciously
Then I read up on it on Wiki and it says
“The Type A/B theory has been criticized on a number of grounds by mathematicians, medical professionals, and scientists. On the basis of these criticisms, the theory has been termed obsolete by many researchers in contemporary health psychology and personality psychology.”
Firstly I expected more than A/B types and more than that, though I fit B more, I am IMPATIENT as hell and aggressive in love and in war… I don’t think the entire populace can be categorised as either/or. The human race is far more complex than this theory gives credit for.
but mainly I wanted to reply to this:
I would definitely suggest that you learn the translation of exactly what it is you are reading, particularly for namaaz. I only started reading namaaz 6 months ago, but I had to learn from scratch, and I am firm in my belief that understanding what I’m reciting is essential for me to wholeheartedly believe it and mean it. So when I read namaaz, I recite the arabic and then in my head I remind myself of the english definition, so that I mean what I say.
This took me a fortnight to get down, all I would do is learn one lines translation and then remind myself of that translation after that lines recitation.
It has come to a point now where a lot of the lines translate automatically in my mind as I recite them. More than that, for me personally, this is benificial because my mind wanders far too much; I do joined up thinking, I’ll think of one thing then another that’s somehow linked, then another until whatever I was initially thinking can’t even be recalled. But reminding myself of the english translation and meaning what I say, truly help me focus on nothing but my namaaz.
Inshallah you will find the inner peace you are looking for.