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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Islamic Morals Peace and Tranquillity Under the Shade of Worship The clamour of the material world has spread so much that its lustre has invited the attraction of everybody who is careless about God. It has deviated men both physically and mentally and turned them into its slaves. As a result of forgetting God, and of excessive attention to matter, makes man's heart gradually black and unclean. It makes his spiritual like hard and dark.

In this condition man becomes motiveless and a felling which is futile turns his entire life foolishly futile. In such circumstances the only thing that can provide peace and relieve man from worries, fears and enhances his attention toward Allah and for an intimate talk with Him through heart. When this talk worship takes place in isolation and away from public attention it gives more joy to man.

As the Holy Quran says about the midnight prayer: And during a part of the night, pray Tahajjud beyond what is incumbent on you; maybe your Lord will raise you to a position of great glory. Also in the beginning of Islam the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) nourished the souls of Muslims who action as per the said schedule involving spirit and raised their personalities to such a high position that as if they were no more the earlier fellows.

In other words, he created new men in a new form with a new essence who became unwavering, courageous, faithful, pious and honest and… And perhaps, the glorious position mentioned in the above quoted verse is perhaps, in the same meaning s described above, though some narrations say it means shaft or intercession.

Also it is quite like that Muqaame Mehmood the glorious position in extreme nearness the Allah as has been said by the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) in a hadith that: I have a status in relation to God which neither the nearest angel nor any Prophet can ever endure. Worship raises man to a position wherein his hands and eyes and tongue become divine.

In a hadith related from Imam Baqir (a.s.) it is mentioned: The Lord Almighty has said: None of My slaves ever nears Me so much that I love him but though deeds I have made obligatory for him and surely my slave comes so near to Me through voluntary good deeds that I befriend him and when I this happens I become an ear for him by which he hears and an eye by which he sees and a tongue by which he talks and a hand by which he attacks and when he calls Me, I answer and if he request from Me, I grant.