What does spirituality mean to Muslims

[GLAM]

Salaam all,

I was thinking about an article i read about spirituality and the headscarf (namely 'Contentious Headscarfs', and that made me think about what spirituality meant to me as a Muslim. I am a Muslim that wears a veil, and practices Islam through prayer and recitation on the Qu'ran. I wanted to know if there is a spiritual element for you? As most of the article only discussed the headscarf, this is not really relevant for male Muslims. Let me know what consitutes as spirituality/ practice and why?

All replys welcome.

Thanks.

[snassirnia]

Assalam Alaikum wa rahmat Allah

Islamic sprituality is different from any other. In islam our sprituality is based on devine dictates (heavenly sprituality). practice of it will give you heavenly state here and paradise in hereafter.
any other religion is a mixed bag of deformed heavenly mixed with earthly sprituality.as a result they are an earthly sprituality.(Allah SWT is pur and his religion must stay pure) they will get their reward of that practice here on earth and in hearafter , hell fire.
Allah SWT created everything with some sort of spirit. So even if you go around a tree every day (new age religion) you will get some kind of spritualituy (audubillah).
Wassalam

[GLAM]

Salaam Snassirnia,

What about the younger generation brought up Within Western countires, do you think that they have a different defintion of spirituality and Islam?

Thanks for the reply

[snassirnia]

Alikum Assalam wa rahmat Allah

Modern means more earthly. Many Hadith indicates that as humanity will get farther from time of the prophat (sas) they will become more earthly. Just look around you.
So every individual can measure himself/herself how much traditional islam makes ones real life Vs modern Civilization(modern garbage).
Allaho Aalam
Wassalam

[marco100]

Salaam all,

I was thinking about an article i read about spirituality and the headscarf (namely 'Contentious Headscarfs', and that made me think about what spirituality meant to me as a Muslim. I am a Muslim that wears a veil, and practices Islam through prayer and recitation on the Qu'ran. I wanted to know if there is a spiritual element for you? As most of the article only discussed the headscarf, this is not really relevant for male Muslims. Let me know what consitutes as spirituality/ practice and why?

All replys welcome.

Thanks.

Spirituality is in essence getting close to the Creator through appreciation. By getting close one can understand what the purpose of life is, what wisdom really is. People say they are spiritual, which really means appreciating a feeling of an outer force if you like, governing how the world operates.

However, to truly become spiritual, this is attained when one looks around, and everywhere they look they see only their Creator. From the sunset, to the miracle of the human body, even as far as appreciating that all they have been given is truly a gift for which they should be forever indebted to that very same Creator. This is spirituality.

How does one show that appreciation? Being humans, by design, we have to be shown how to do this. That comes from someone who has walked the path in the first place.

Who better than a messenger with the message of spirituality itself. That person who himself embodies the same state of "nirvana" to which one aspires.

If the messenger eats in a certain way, we copy that. If they sleep in a certain way, we copy that. If they walk and talk in a certain way, we copy that.

If this is the true embodiment of spirituality then who can say they know how to be more spiritual than the examples laid down by the mighty messengers of the Creator; Allah: King of Kings.

Who can therefore claim to be more spiritual than the beloved friend and habeeb of Allah; Janaabay Paak Muhammad Mustafa SAW. If his life is an example of what spirituality truly is, then this is achieved by nothing other than following his perfect example.