The pause.

Sit back for a few more minutes. Its precious.

Don’t hurry up and fold the prayer mat, while subconsciously uttering your end-of-salah azkaar, and move on with life, when you can absorb some strength and some tranquility for the heart in those couple of minutes.

It takes hardly a miunte or two. But rejuvenates your soul for the day.

Say the adhkar consciously, think about them, count on your fingers while you think of your Lord and His mercy.

Sit there. Absorb the strength.

And then get up to face the world until your next prayer.

There is so much sukoon and peace in that pause AFTER prayer. Grab it!

One thing many don’t realise is that not only does Zikr help your soul, but also physically strengthens you.

This is very apparent of the hadeeth when the Prophet’s (صلّى الله عليه و سلّم) daughter complained to him of exhaustion through housework, he gave her the antidote in the following story-

It was narrated from ‘Ali [رضى الله عنه], “Fatimah [رضى الله عنها] complained about the pain caused to her hand by the mill, and some prisoners had been brought to the Prophet [صلّى الله عليه و سلّم], so she went but did not find him, but she met A’ishah and told her.

When the Prophet [صلّى الله عليه و سلّم] came, A’ishah told him about Fatimah coming to her. The Prophet came to us, and we had gone to bed. We started to get up, but the Prophet [صلّى الله عليه و سلّم] said: “Stay where you are.” Then he sat between us, until I could feel the coolness of his foot on my chest. Then he said:

“Shall I not teach you something better than what you asked for? When you go to your bed, magnify Allah thirty-four times, glorify Him thirty-three times and praise Him thirty-three times. That is better for you than a servant.””

[Sahih Al-Bukhari: 3502 and Muslim: 2727]