Taʿdīl al-Arkān
Definition
Tadil al-arkan refers to the requirement that each physical posture of the prayer — the bowing, the prostration, the sitting — be performed with stillness and completion, not rushed through. Al-Ghazali emphasises this both legally, because rushing the pillars can invalidate the prayer, and spiritually, because hurrying through the postures is the outward symptom of an inward absence of khushu. The person who rushes their prayer is revealing that they experience it as a burden to be finished rather than an encounter to be savoured.
As understood in the classical tradition of Imam al-Ghazali and the scholars of his school.
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