Remembering God in Solitude

Iman, ch. 1) This means that just as your faith is, so will your prayer be. Prayer is a criterion by which to judge your faith. If a person achieves a deeper level of faith, his prayer will also come out of the deeper recesses of his heart, and will have a very spiritual colour to it. When one prays in this manner, his whole existence will become a part of his prayer. Prayer for him will become a meeting point with God. It will be like conversing in whispers with God. (Sahih Muslim, Hadith No. 551). On the contrary, for one whose faith has not become a part of his heart, prayer will be nothing but verbal repetition of certain words. It will amount to reiterating certain words ritualistically and this has nothing to do with the feelings of the heart. Such prayer will only be the utterance of mere words and not an expression of spiritual states.