Daily moral attention to sins governs the ability to pray

Evidence

Mona replied that it refers to what you do in the day: if your mind is mostly occupied with things that are not re.. lated to God, then you are in a state of ghafla (carelessness, negligence). Ac.. to Mona, such a condition of negligence results in inability to say the _ morn prayer. … It means what your day—to—day deeds are. For example, what do you look at in the day ? Do you look at things that are prohibited to us by God, such as immodest images of women and men? What do you say to people in the day? Do you insult people when you get angry and use abusive language ? How do you feel when you see someone doing acts of disobedience [ma e�i] ? Do you get sad? Does it hurt you when you see someone committing a sin or does it not affect you? These are the things that have an eff on your heart [qalbik], and they hinder or impede [taeanal] your ability to get up and say the morn prayer. [The constant] guarding against disobedience and sins wakes you up for the morning prayer. Salat is not just what you say with your mouth and what you do with your limbs. It is a state of your heart. — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 876

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ghafla (carelessness, negligence) as a state of the heart caused by worldly occupation that blocks prayer.
• XREF: Connects to the book’s broader project: how the women’s mosque movement cultivates interior moral states through bodily practice, contesting liberal autonomy assumptions. — connects to: Attention in aesthetic experience historically derives from prayer — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 436