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The Imam bin al-Ga-Mahabba, Rahim Allah narrates in Sifah the Saffwa about a man that we already mentioned, Zainul-Aidin, Ali bin Hussein, may

Allah be pleased with him, who was the great, great grandson of the Prophet,

sallu al-a-a-a-u-sallel, that he was once making wudu,

or rather when he would be making wudu,

his face would start to change colors.

So it would become very pale,

would become very yellow,

as if he was very nervous about something.

And so his family asked him, what's wrong?

Why is it that the color of your face is changing when you're making wudu?

And he responded and he said,

A tadroonabine yaday men I want to do you not realize in front of whom I intend to stand?

Do you not realize in front of whom who I intend to stand?

Meaning his sala.

Now I want you to think about the idea of bringing your chishua to the point of your wudu,

to actually start that anticipation of the meeting with Allah,

from the time of your actual wudu, not just the time of your sala.

And this is exactly what we find in the habits of the righteous ones, the habits of the Salaheim. So as you wash yourself, you are preparing yourself for effectively what is your Ihram. And the images of Hajj and Umra are so vivid to us. And so they give us a visualization of what every single sala we go into actually looks like.

Just like when you take your bath before you wear your Ihram and you prepare yourself for going to meet Allah

subhanna. You are bathing yourself, washing yourself in that process of wudu, anticipating your meeting with

Allah, subhanu-ta-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a. The same thing is true for death. When we

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